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Old May 28, 2008 | 01:06 AM
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Well, photoshoots seem to be pretty popular around here but the weather up here in yew-tar has been less than pleasurable for me to do such a thing since getting my A4 and today presented me with a sunny, 72 degree opportunity to clean it up and take a few pix, enjoii ;P

P.S. It's in a pretty dire need of a paintjob, but overall not too bad looking for being eleven years old.


The exterior:







The interior:






Previous owner did a lousy debadge job here, any recommendations?


 
Old May 28, 2008 | 01:17 AM
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For the debadging shadows, just claybar the area, scrub the bejeezus out of it with Goo-Gone for as long as it takes, and then repolish and rewax it - eventually, with enough scrubbing, the shadows should disappear.
 
Old May 28, 2008 | 01:58 AM
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Yeah another 12v member and going on the Avi a climber maybe??? I climb a bit but not as much as I used to and I've only done top rope my whole life. I want to get back into it this summer though.

decent looking car and yeah for the debadging listen to Jeremy
 
Old May 28, 2008 | 02:19 AM
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sick rubix cube wishi had one for the traffic id master that thing
 
Old May 30, 2008 | 12:27 AM
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Ya, rubix cubes are the shiz. I'm pretty fond of the 4x4x4 ones, those seem to impress people the most :P

For the debadging shadows, just claybar the area, scrub the bejeezus out of it with Goo-Gone for as long as it takes, and then repolish and rewax it - eventually, with enough scrubbing, the shadows should disappear.
Sweet, I'll give that a try. I'm not so concerned about the shadows as I am the severely scratched look behind the shadows. You cant see it in the picture due to lack of super high def camera, but it almost looks like whoever did the debadge job tried using a medium to fine grit sandpaper to try and get the shadows out, that being my guess as there are hundreds of scratches all horizontal and parallel to each other over that area, so would that have just been a poor debadge job and the scrubbing, polishing and re-waxing will take them out or am I gonna have to pick up some paint touch up stuff or just live with it til I can afford a whole new paint job, seeing as most of the car needs it anyway...
 
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