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Chris,
Please post a pic from finished dash before paint. I have a suspicion that you left few holes unplugged and after paint will be too late to correct them.
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kiwighia68
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Chris,
Please post a pic from finished dash before paint. I have a suspicion that you left few holes unplugged and after paint will be too late to correct them. |
Will do. What area are you worried about?
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Area around gauges, especially holes for switches and holes that are not intended for switches but covered with faux wood grain dash cover.
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kiwighia68
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Darrel and Disc, Thanks, I checked some time ago but it's a good thing to double-check. I have holes in the dash face only for the instruments and the switches that sit lower down, none of the one in Darrel's pic above the instruments. I arrived this morning to see that the interior surfaces have been painted, and the dash looks very good. I'll post a pic this evening.
Edit: Here are the photos I promised:
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kiwighia68
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My car has colour paint on it at last - Lotus White (L282, the original colour). A nice rich colour, far creamier than I expected, and virtually identical to the Mercedes Benz colour known as Elfenbein (ivory). The photo doesn't do it justice.
EDIT: This is the photo I should have had there!
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KGCoupe
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The color (and even the colour) does indeed look very rich and creamy - downright delicious looking!
Congratulations on making a wonderful choice, and also on doing the "right" thing by painting that car the original color.
You've put the kharma back in your Karmann Ghia.
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DorianL
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Oh my 
So happy to see this on their. This is must feel like a giant leap forward. |
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c21darrel
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kiwighia68
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| The color (and even the colour) |
Mr Webster has a lot to answer for! Including murdering the English language.
Thanks for the encouragement.
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Looks Great. Makes me want to go eat Vanilla ice cream.  |
Just wait until he paints the "caramel sauce" on the roof!  |
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kiwighia68
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| Looks Great. Makes me want to go eat Vanilla ice cream. :D |
Just wait until he paints the "caramel sauce" on the roof! :) |
"Getting so much better, all the time..." (Lennon & McCartney)
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| Looks familiar, did you go with Dupont? |
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kiwighia68
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| Looks familiar, did you go with Dupont? |
Yes, only the best. The colour looked so good on your car the day Dean and I came round that it convinced me that the original colour - Lotus White - was the way to go. But I'm not having black on the roof.
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I did the final scuffing of panels yesterday and the textured paint went on after I had left. Some last-minute rust repairs was done today by the metals team. The textured panels and the undercarriage will be painted this weekend and there is a better than 50-50 chance that I'll have the body in paint by next Friday.
We have a long weekend here and I've had some good fortune: A novel I wrote some years ago will be turned into a movie this year, so I'll come into some money soon. I went to spend it at a local self-proclaimed VW parts specialist called Platinum Motors and hoped that I would be able to do some serious upgrades to my car's engine. I stood there at the counter with my $1600 only to be told by the receptionist that they were too busy to sell me parts. I was told to come back next week.
I can get the same parts delivered from the USA to my door for a third of the price? What was I thinking?
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I've just emailed you better options for parts and service, Platinum lost their mechanic and I believe the owner may be looking to sell up and they are expensive anyway.
Also try Buzzbug down in CHCH, and let them know you are in DMFV and they will give you a discount.
Agreed on the price of parts, we got totally reamed in NZ, sad vicious circle.
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kiwighia68
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You may have wondered what happened to my car's painting. Well, I've been busy doing other things while the work went on (slowly) in my absence. The messages I've received read as follows:
"Some more small rust repairs happening underneath..." That was after I had been unable to find any.
"W... got the white underseal done in the tubs yesterday."
"All the underbody is painted now and looks awesome."
Then yesterday: "W... is repriming the car tomorrow (Sunday) after the initial block down. I thought we'd give the body just a bit more attention to try for perfection... We're waiting for the strategic moment - temps etc he likes."
The painter guy had this to say yesterday: "...we were not totally happy with straightness, so I have reworked the four corners and will complete this back to primer tomorrow."
"I am quietly aiming to have the car in the booth for the top coat next weekend ..."
Music to my ears. It looks like these guys are really trying. I could see no imperfections the last time I saw the car, but their expert eyes were not satisfied.
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So good to hear the conversation going like that..
You are in a hurry to get your car back.
They are in a hurry to get yours out the door so they can get paid.
The situation is just so ripe for corners to be cut.
Here and now is when a good paint/body job becomes a great one.
Any flaws unattended to and corners cut will sit and stare at you forevermore.
Do anything you can to drag it out at this point, as impossible as it might be to do.
Learned this lesson a couple of times m'self already...
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| So good to hear the conversation going like that... Do anything you can to drag it out at this point.. |
Depends how the job was quoted and how much you can trust them. If I was paying by the hour and they were doing extra work that I had been unable to see the need for, I would want to go and have a look before agreeing to extra costs rather than relying on messages. How else would you know they are actually doing this extra work you are being charged for?
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