My Poor Excuse Of A 3 Series

[G4VHD]

Dont get me wrong, I get compliments daily on how nice my car looks.

But as you prob know, I have an OCD with cleaning it.

Just a few things getting on my nerves at the moment..

Firstly, the 2 rust scabs on the rear arches..

Im not sure on how to get rid of these without expensive respray...any ideas would be welcome

Then also the huge scratch on the nearside side skirt...

Looks like removing the skirt and a respray???

The bottom corner of the door scabbing, and a poor previous repair

Then the bonnet...as with all BMW's....the dredded stone chips..

And the scratch.

You can see where over the last few weeks I've been building the paint up, using the tooth pic method, ready to knock back down and get the machine to finnish them off.

Then the lacquer starting to come away on the front passenger door..

And for the bit thats most annoying..

someone ran into the rear or my car a few months back, resulting in new boot lid, new bumper and various other parts..

But the d*ck heads at the repairers decided, for some unknown reason, to blow both rear quarters in.

Poor 'Orange Peal' paint is the result.

I've tried to capture where they blended to the existing paintwork here...

Any advice would be great

[G4VHD]

Oh and the wheels, this is the worst..

But I have this problem covered

[Guest Mister Dabsy]

Your arches will need filling Gav

[andy-mcq]

hate to say it but thats is going to need a respray gav :angry:

bonnet might tidy up a bit but as you said its prob best to get a full blow over the full car!

if theve blended the 1/4s why didnt they just paint to the swage line? ten times easier and black is usually a really good match to do lol

[G4VHD]

I think respray too.

Been quoted £800, and I trust this bloke with my life..

I think im going to have to go for it..

[Guest Mister Dabsy]

Just have a "Blow over" a decent spray shop would do one...

As for the wheels... You can get a set off Ebay with tyres that would cost the same as new tyres... ?

[G4VHD]

Im not fussed about the wheels, to be honest, if I wasnt having spray job I'd buy some new 19's.

But Im ok repairing them myself

[Guest Mister Dabsy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNQRfBAzSzo

[andy-mcq]

il be doing my alloys soon to gav. 19s are defo off for the year i think. tempted to just save for a e46 convert though instead :P

[G4VHD]

Im saving for the 5 series

Found this one...bargain...wife said no though ....:angry:

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201104378053015/sort/priceasc/usedcars/transmission/manual/engine-size-cars/3l_to_3-9l/fuel-type/diesel/model/5_series/make/bmw/page/1/postcode/ws86bl/radius/1501?logcode=p#

[andy-mcq]

get down the auctions gav, plenty there for next to nothing! just need to no what your looking at

[G4VHD]

I cant yet, got to buy a house in the near future...

[andy-mcq]

with a garage :P

[G4VHD]

A !Removed! big one ;)

[andy-mcq]

i no the feeling!

would kill for a garage, perhaps kill dabsy :lol:

[G4VHD]

LOL....he wants to race his olds-mobile against my 46 at the Pod...

[andy-mcq]

the race is on :P

doubt my 46 will go near the strip!

[G4VHD]

Why not...

To be honest its not going to be much different to my daily trip to work lol

Only taking it up once though, I got to know her 1/4 time.

[andy-mcq]

got me thinking now, might do it once lol B)

[Thomas Battle]

just brought e36 and my arches are terrible need to be done, take it ya have to get whole car resprayed?

[G4VHD]

just brought e36 and my arches are terrible need to be done, take it ya have to get whole car resprayed?

Yes mate

[andy-mcq]

Nar just them panels plus next panels to them to blend the color into

[Ben328]

Have you tried moppin it... my work for abit till ya save the money for a full respray

[Guest Mister Dabsy]

Tried mopping mine once... The disinfectant in the bucket left streaks :lol: