Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

On topic...

http://www.petrolicious.com/the-lamborghini-countach-is-a-concept-car-come-true

okay so my car has a bubble under the paint.

i took a flathead to it and scrapped it a way to find a very small area of corrosion type stuff. not rust. it was grey. It's solid. I can't easily dent it or chip it away.

i sanded the area down and repainted it with crummy "color matched" auto paint from a can which looks the part. It's just a small area near the wheel well and i'm not looking for perfection. It's a '07 VW jetta that i'm just trying to get to last for another few years.

Anyway the bubble formed again in about two weeks.

So i re-sand it down, this time more aggressively and then use filler in the area of question to try to seal any micro perforations and then I sand it down, repaint it. It looks good until the next rain that i drive in and then immediately re-bubbles. I am sure water it leaking in behind the paint, but i can't seem too correct the problem.

Any advice? I'm thinking of creating a small dent in which to heap up filler. unless some one has other advice.

I cannot get to the inside of the panel easily.

Was at the London Classic Car Show last night. Was good and parade was fun. Anyone else going?

The advice in the other thread not acceptable?

easy there. someone said to post it here and so i did.

Will James Martin be there?

Its bad prep, did you use a zinc rich primer?

After sanding down the trick is to warm the area with a hair dryer or fan heater. Then wipe the area with tack wipes or the correct paint thinners on a lint free cloth. Then give the area a quick coat of high zinc primer. A trick I was shown was cold galvanizing spray, then paint over it.

well thats far superior advice than in the other thread. so... thanks.

You asked in the other thread and I asked a question. Nothing else.

Someone else has said this too. Phew. No, unbroken. I understand if PDR can't get it back to 100%, but 80% would be fine with me for all the cost saving it brings

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I'm wifeless for a week so might go on Sunday

That is awesome. good link. Aussie too! Really should be yellow tho

The new Jaguar XE is in the company car list at work. I was really tempted, but our company has a frigging 160g/km CO2 cap. That means that none of the petrol-engined models are available.
No matter how good they might be on paper, I'm really not sure I could drive a Jag with a tractor engine.
Pissflaps. 240bhp sounded so much nicer than 180.

It's a barge anyway, take the diesel. Enjoy the loping.

Are there even any reasonable petrol options? I'd take the Jag over a derv BMW/Merc/Audi.

Been working away back home...

Before

During

After

Mercedes seem to be able to make some petrol engines with low enough co2, and I considered another one coz my W124 is bloody great, but modern Mercs don't really do much for me. I might test drive a derv jag in the spring to see if it changes my mind, but I think I'll wait. Apparently the petrol motor is still the Ford Ecoboost, and the new JLR Ingenium petrol engine is yet to be launched. Maybe it will get under the 160 barrier.

Derv may have future particulate issues.

^ only if you are keeping the car 5 years and want to drive through the middle of Paris.

That's another thing. It's nasty stuff, and I can see the current political rules that promote it changing. Fingers crossed.
I might be wrong about the engine, by the way. The Ecoboost is in the XJ but the XE may well have the Ingenium petrol as well as the diesel.

OMG
thats going to be quick...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZZ-gLgRDrw

There was one for sale on ebay recently for £10K, there is an MR2 MK1 convertable with the v6 out of a toyota camary. Seems an odd engine to chose as it is quite a lazy engine.

Fitting that engine in to the MK3 is easier.