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Old 6th April 2014, 08:10 PM
tkpm tkpm is offline
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Default Build update.

Well its been about 20 months since I've done one of these. Ill health slowed my build down to almost nothing over that time. Then work kept getting in the way.

But I managed to get started again last weekend.

Like a few people on here I bought my bodywork off a person who was running his own business for the Roadster parts, lets just say the body was not well made, it was full of air pockets and quite a few scratches.

During my time away from the Roadster I had been contemplating on weather to paint or wrap the bodywork.

I decided against painting due to air pockets that might get missed during the prep stage, which would lead to cracking in the paint and the cost of painting.

Instead I decided to vinyl wrap the hole car, to my surprise this has turn out to be very cheap to do, to buy enough plain gloss vinyl wrap to do the body in one colour and the arches in another was less than £150.

I have only wrap the arches for the moment, but bodywork will be started soon.

Here's a few pictures of before and after.
before
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after
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before
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and after
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Old 7th April 2014, 06:43 AM
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Nice job there look forward to see the completed car

ive thought about a wrap when if I get there
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