Jade green Mk2 Golf GTI 16v - project

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It would appear that I forgot to post for a year. Spent a few hours in the garage today repairing the near side window surround. I had a bodycut from a breakers for this.






Looking better than it previously did.

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dontlookdown said:

Tricky bit of fabrication that, good work. I had a Jade green 3 door 16v on an F plate back in the day. Same wheels too. The engine felt unburstable.

Good to see you are persevering, others might have been put off by all the rust that emerged along the way.

I knew it was a rust bucket when I bought it. The guy I bought it from had already bought most of the repair panels but he switched his focus to a few other cars so let this one go.

I've got two engines, they came with the project. I've got a 2.0 ABF engine and a 2.0 9A engine. Probably going with the ABF and will off load the other when I know I don't need it any longer.

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2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Amazing perseverance

I'll be honest, I've barely touched it much for ages. But every now and again I go and stand in the garage and cut a bit of it off.

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Scoobydrew95 said:

Jesus the amount of rust is fairly daunting. Happened pretty much to my 318ti. Went to do the sills but it just ended up getting deeper and deeper. So made the decision to re-shell.
Good luck with the rest of it, work done so far looks great.

I'm not put off by the rust, after all, I can't make the shell any worse than it already is. I'm fairly happy just pottering on cutting it up and welding bits back on. I've got the luxury of having a decent garage and I'm in absolutely no rush to finish it.

I've booked myself onto an evening MIG welding course at the local college so in 12 weeks from April I'll at least be a City & Guilds level 1 mig welder blowing holes in a rusty old car!

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2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

SHutchinson said:

I've booked myself onto an evening MIG welding course at the local college so in 12 weeks from April I'll at least be a City & Guilds level 1 mig welder blowing holes in a rusty old car!

You should offer up your car for the students to work on. You'd get it done much more quickly! (Many hands make light work and all that )

Have you been reading my mind!!??

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I’ve spent the full week in meetings and poring over testing schedules for a project at work. So I needed 20 minutes in the garage to breathe.



I’ll finish it later but at least my head is cleared.

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Weld, grind, weld, grind…..




Learning as I go but I feel like that isn’t a terrible repair. There’s a bit more to finish off but once that’s finished and has a skim of filler on it I think it’ll look ok.

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RC1807 said:

Good going

Looks like the rear quarter has quite a skim on it already

Yeah it’s pretty thick but weirdly the back of that panel shows no damage or previous repairs at all so not sure why it’s like that.

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Safe to say progress is being made. Shell is now on a rollover jig and the rust is being chased!





I have a lot of progress pictures to upload, but this is today.