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  1. c00k
    Looking good mate. Doing a good job so far You could re-dye the leather if you wanted it totally mint. Wouldn't be to hard as it's all one colour. Dynamix dyes sell a lot of colour matched kits for VW's. I'd recommend taking the oil cooler coolant pipes off and giving them a good clean inside. As the location of them means they build up a lot of crap inside of them. Keep up the good work dude.
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    Fair play mate all of that must of cost you a fortune! Love it thou, amazing build. Take my hat off to you sir.
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    Duplicate post.
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    This is amazing!! Credit to you mate, a lot of time work and effort put in there. Keep it up dude.
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    Looks sweet dude. Good work you've put in since owning it
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    Looking good buddy. Always loved mk2's in oak green!
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    While the seats were out I took the opportunity to deep clean and rejuvenate the carpet. Vacuumed all of the carpet 1st, to remove all the lose dirt. But there was still dirt that was within the shagpile. So for the next step I used carpet shampoo, and a brush that attached to my buffer. It's made by chemical guys, and works amazing! It cleans deep through the shagpile lifting the dirt to the surface, which is then able to be vacuumed away. I will also be doing the same process to my car mats. Cleaned the stitching on my steering wheel, as it had gone abit grubby. New hand brake gator and
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    I unwrapped the masking tape. It looks worse that what it is. but this is why you do not want to tape up leather. lol It pulled off the finish, and some of the dye from the base of both seats. but not the rear part. But the bases are the most warn areas of seats. So it meant I did have to rip them apart to dye the red. I wasn't risking masking up the the bolster I had just freshly finished. It also meant abit more sanding to even out the base, but nothing that couldn't be sorted. Center sections removed, cleaned, preped, sanded, and compound started to be applied. This was the worst area, w
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    Passenger bolster Then on to spraying the dye, I used a 1.2mm spray gun, blowing off the leather with and air gun 1st. After about 4-5 light coats, the 1st couple of layers sucked almost straight in to the leather. you can still see the grain nicely, but no deep cracks or marks Then on to the leather finish, i went for a satin finish, to match the rear seats. I put about 5-6 layer of the finish on. Remember the mark in the top of the seat. in the photo earlier. well that's what it looks like now They both looked mint!! Until...........
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    After dying my hand brake gator, and and parts of my gear knob, and trying a few different techniques. I was going to re-dye the front seats. Planning to only do both front seats and not the rear seats. As the rears were good condition, and showing no signs of ware. This meant that the red had to be a perfect colour match, but more about that later. I had never dyed leather before, only testing it on my gator and gear knob. But as with most things I put in abit of research 1st. You can get a filler for leather, it's called leather compound. It's just a flexible filler meant for leather But le
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    fair enough, i thought it was in there. lol still it's not that hard to get hold of acetone. if anyone does need it.
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    You can also follow me on Instagram @c00k60 Or #l6wvr
  13. c00k
    Just over £35 for the all the stuff mate. £25 for the re-dye kit, and then about £10 on cleaning stuff. it's only enough to re-do the front seats, and maybe the door cards. not enough to re-do all the rear seats as well. I only bought a 250ml of each colour. if it was to buy it again, i would just buy the dye and leather finish, not the full kit. as the alcohol cleaner is just isopropanol, and we use this in my work to clean stuff. and the leather prep is just acetone. or clear no fragrance nail varnish remover, or can be bought in 5L bottles from BnQ, wickes, etc. you can buy just the dye
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    Some of the leather inside of the car was starting to look abit warn, So im going to re-dye it. I prep the leather before dyeing . Giving it a very good clean, using a leather deep cleaner to open up the pours of the leather. then using leather prep, which is just acetone. to remove the leather finish. not the colour just the finish. Finally alcohol cleaner which is isopropanol or IPA. I realised this after buying the kit haha As I use both these chemicals in work to clean stuff, and I know the smell a mile off. Then spray the leather using leather dye a mini compressor and a spray gun on
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    Had a detailing session again love cleaning my car on a nice day.... this was a few weekends ago when weather was nice. After 1st cut. Started at about 9am Foam gunned, washed using 2 buckets, and grit guards in both buckets. using lambs wool mitt. Dried using micro fiber large towels. Then on to the layers, all applied with a Das-6 pro. Little bit of claying in stubborn areas. 1st Meguiars diamond cut with Menzerna compounds pad. 2nd Meguiars paint cleaner with Menzerna polishing pad. 3rd Meguiars show car glaze with Menzerna polishing pad 4th Dodo juice blue velvet with Menzerna f
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    Few more little tweaks to the engine bay. Bought some red conduit to cover the wire at the back of the chassis leg. Not a huge fan of the coloured stuff, but bought some thinking I will give it ago... if I don't like it I can take it off in a matter of minutes. advert stated colour coded cable ties who the fuck does there colour matching haha. I didn't end up using cable ties anyway. Used only a small amount from what I bought, only covered the wires that sat over the red paint in this small area. I didn't like the red not matching, so I colour coded the conduit so it was a perfect match
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    very nice ride. any more pics? Guessing it on bags?
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    Passenger side Refitted door car to test position of speakers I then full sound deadened the rear of the panels, but i didn't get a photo. Made up the the amp and speaker wires, not all of them in photo Wired up the amp in the boot, still need to make a panel to hold the amp in place in the boot. 1200watt, wont be using all the power. mainly for the low pass filter. and frequency adjustment. Cut the whole for the bass port. Fixed the panel in place with self tapping screws and large washer, and covered all the edges with sound deadened. Refitted door card for final tine.
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    I bought some new rear speaker, as I found my system never had as much bass as I wanted. They will be going in the same place as the normal rear ones, but not fixed to the door card, as I'm going to be amping them, and they would kick to much, and make the door card vibrate and move to much, So I had to made an enclosure to hold them in to the rear quarters. I had already sound deadened the rear quarters previously. I made the front panel out of this material, it's a very dense foam/plastics board. reason i went for this was... it's bendable by heat, and sets quickly meaning
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    amazing build, is a beast! Love the sticker too haha
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    cheers guys I have a magnetic tray I usually sit on the scuttle panel to hold tools, I did used to use the slam panel lol, think every does. But on the odd occasion they can fall off or fall through, and if it was to mark the paint on the chassis legs i wouldn't be happy lol
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    small bit of detailing on oil cap, and coolant cap. bought some wheel bags, genuine VW depending if i'm running my summer or winter wheels. shame they don't make them in red and black Some new audio on order, should be here by the weekend. and a few additions to the air ride coming from US soon
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    Been awhile since my last up date, But stuff has still been happening Fitted all new ball joints, track rods, lower arms, bushes etc, also replaced the matrix, but i didn't get any photos of this as i was doing it early in the year and the weather was crappy, so couldn't be assed lol. No one likes working out in the cold and wet. Finished fitting the US rad cover, and tweaking it's location. Didn't like the strut brace mounts black, so colour coded them red. Old bonnet catch, Re-condition bonnet catch and support colour coded black, it's not finished being fixed in to it corre
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    Sweet build Going to be one hell of a mk1 when finished!
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    Very nice car, lots of nice little touches too. And it's all about the small details!
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