2008-8-15. Filler time!
It's starting to look like the body will get it's color this summer!
I've sprayed the filler yesterday and today. I put on about six coats on the roof (to have plenty of the stuff to work with) and three on the sides depending on how uneven the surface looked. And two coats in the engine bay.
Some photos:
The area under the window frame was somewhat pitted - it was solved by spraying on a couple of heavy coats of filler. So when it's sanded the area will be smooth.
The sides look promising...
I put some body sealer on the seams in the engine bay. Hopefully that will give some protection against corrosion.
I had to wait for a week for the stuff to dry before painting over it though! It propably would have been worthwhile to buy some professional sealer instead of the cheap stuff...
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2008-8-17
We sanded the filler today (the whole car, took about 5 hours with two men working...) But the car is now ready for overcoat!
Some photos:
I said earlier that the area below the window frame was somewhat pitted - here's a photo to illustrate.
I had to sand a lot of the filler away to smooth this, but finally got it done.
And here's the area after a new coat of filler has been sprayed on (a thin layer this time).
We also fitted the opening rear windows, as they needed some holes drilled (better do it before paint).
Two holes were drilled to B-pillar for the window frame attachments (only the lower one visible in the photo).