Jamie
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Registered: 1st Apr 02
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People doing their own bodywork.
Anyone can pay a bodyshop £xxxx to have their car looking like a magazine feature, but to actually spend hours upon hours sanding/filling/cutting/priming etc is maddness.
Spent over 10 hours doing my new bootlid and bumper this week, but it really is starting to pay off. Will definetly be appreciating the car more.
Big up Iaz/Marv etc 
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M333KS D
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yer, more of a sence of fullfilment
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Jason Iles
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Tis true the amount of times I worked my fingers to the bone, driving it to the bodyshop
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M333KS D
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 i did quite a bit of mine but left the tricky bits to me mate (his bodyshop)
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Adge
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Registered: 28th Aug 04
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also make u realise that bodywork isnt so easy and makes you wonder why people moan all the time about high prices!
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Gaz
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thing is though not that many people have the knoledge/time/bottle to start something "big" on the car IE smooth boot etc , because if they mess it up they will be buggered and in the end have to go a bodyshop for them to help out
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M333KS D
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yer but if you never try, you never know, just what i did, not sayin it was plain sailing becos it wasnt by no means, but hey, its summat that most ppl enjoy doing, messing around with there cars like that
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Jamie
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I couldnt be bothered paying £500 for having my bootlid smoothed, simple as.
So purchased another bootlid, had someone weld a metal plate in then i've been at it with the filler and wet/dry ever since.
Bit of advice on here and lads at work and i'm getting there
Anything is possible
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SJW
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lets see the old meggy boot lid jme how its coming along 
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boyracer2002
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Yup - the thing which pisses me off is max live - i dont think companies should be able to enter their cars like the alpine single centre seat c2, that shouldnt have won, there are cars like ours which go there and have no chance of winning when someone has the money and stuff to crete something amazing. I feel good to be able to say i have done a lot of work on mine myself 
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Kif
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quote:
Originally posted by boyracer2002
Yup - the thing which pisses me off is max live - i dont think companies should be able to enter their cars like the alpine single centre seat c2, that shouldnt have won, there are cars like ours which go there and have no chance of winning when someone has the money and stuff to crete something amazing. I feel good to be able to say i have done a lot of work on mine myself
I built your car for you 
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AdamF
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iam most of the way through my second one now and you do appriceate it alot more when you have spent all that time doing it
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Kif
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quote:
Originally posted by AdamF
iam most of the way through my second one now and you do appriceate it alot more when you have spent all that time doing it
Not being horrible or owt, but your car looks nasty in pics, but when i saw it in the metal i was like  . pics really dont do it justice
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mav
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better if you fuck it all up on your own rather than letting a bodyshop do it
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Jamie
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quote:
Originally posted by SJW
lets see the old meggy boot lid jme how its coming along
All shall be shown once its painted up, its just had it 6th coat of filler
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ed
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I'm doing all the work on my car now, and it's going to be about a thousand times better than the shite Rich S and the rest of the Midas cowboys could ever produce...
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Adge
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quote:
Originally posted by ed
I'm doing all the work on my car now, and it's going to be about a thousand times better than the shite Rich S and the rest of the Midas cowboys could ever produce...
nice 1, if u confident enuff then go for it!
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ed
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The thing about bodywork is that you need to take your time. Thats all there is to it, so long as you have the basic know how before hand of course otherwise all the time in the world wouldn't help
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Graeme
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i do all my bodywork my self!!
i even have all the tools that u need to do the work on, but then again it aint hard when u are a paint sprayer!! 
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micra man
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Yeah, its good doing it yourself. Really wanna have a go at doing bigger projects but just simply don't have the time or the place at the moment. Respect to those who do do it all themselves though, will save themselves loads on labour costs from a bodyshop!!!
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cossie_corsa
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diy rules, and i agree, companies should not be allowed to enter for a lot of the awards at max live
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RKS
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I agree, between myself and my old man we do all of the work on my car exterior and interior except for the engine work as I just dont have the technical knowledge. this is my second car which i've done all the work on,
i agree that companies should not be allowed to enter comps @ max live, but the mag needs those cars to sell magazines,
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M2RTY
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i heard the c2 was a customer car
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Jamie
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C2 is owned by a Neil somebody or other
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AdamF
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quote:
Originally posted by corsa-boy19
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Originally posted by AdamF
iam most of the way through my second one now and you do appriceate it alot more when you have spent all that time doing it
Not being horrible or owt, but your car looks nasty in pics, but when i saw it in the metal i was like . pics really dont do it justice
i no what you mean in a way mate iam going off the blend across the doors, it does look loads better in the flesh.
the corsa has always been something to piss around with and just fit things to make it different to everything alse hence the reason its been so many different colours and combinations. and if it dont work pull it off and start again.
i do everything myself so it costs minimal to do it so i just do it and if i dont like it i start again
[Edited on 22-10-2005 by AdamF]
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