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What I've spent on it doesn't make much sense from a pure financial standpoint, but I think it will give me a lot of happy years of use to come
In a similar situation, I need to hear this more! Underbody work looked very thorough, good to see another car firm doing things right and happy to share the information. How were LG trimming to work with? I'm about to do some very budget repairs to my interior but am keeping tabs on someone that can do a proper job down the line.
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They were good, Lawrence caught Covid the week the car was due to go in so we had to push things back but that wasn't a problem. Once he had the car he kept me regularly up to date, didn't deviate from the quoted price and sorted out the mess I'd made trying to glue the parcel shelf bracket in place for free too. He spent plenty of time both via email and in person when I was dropping it off confirming the design and going over thread colours so we could make sure the seats matched the paintwork.
He was going to strip some of the internal trim and get it hydro-dipped, but the company we were planning to use weren't answering their emails and then when they finally got in touch quoted a month's turnaround so we knocked that on the head and I've since vinyl wrapped some of the bits myself, which has come out OK.
That pretty much brings us up to date. I am really enjoying the car - it's great fun to drive but also surprisingly practical. I can haul my five year old around as needed and with the back seats down it's surprisingly spacious, so I can get my five-piece drum kit in for travel to band practices and gigs. What I've spent on it doesn't make much sense from a pure financial standpoint, but I think it will give me a lot of happy years of use to come. I could have spent quite a bit more initially on one in 'good condition' and still found similar underbody issues hiding away so I at least know that this one has had that dealt with and to a standard that I trust.
I'm not quite finished yet though, future jobs are:
After that I might just leave it alone and drive it. There's always the temptation to stick an aftermarket exhaust on and go Stage 2 though...