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Great content Dean, cracking vehicle, really enjoyed watching the rebuild, wouldn't worry to much about repainting under the bonnet, top stuff, well done.
Well done Dean can see it’s coming along very nicely. I see the other comment on paint match. What could have happened is they may not have coloured to the edges of the bonnet when repainting it whilst when they were painting the wings it was edge to edge, I would personally have the front bumper (I know it’s plastic) repainted as that’s a hell of a lot lighter so basically blend 2x front doors + 2x a pillar post blends + paint bonnet + paint front bumper that ideally will eliminate all paint problems
Hi Dean. I've been a paint and body guy since the 80's. You can't paint metallic off the car because it needs to be blended. It's all to do with how the metallic flakes (usually plastic these days) lay in the paint and how they reflect the light. The body shop should have told you that. Lesson learned? Keep up the great content though!
100% correct on the tracing for Merc I changed my wife's lower arms tracking was out after and it just kept throwing tc and abs light fault. Got the tracking done and it was perfect 👍
Hi Dean. I love the colour of this Car. I hope the Wings and Bonnet work out okay. They seem too be looking Brilliant. Wow nice one getting the proper Windscreen lol. Very Expensive but worth it in the long run. Great job Dean. Chat later 😅😅 🇨🇮🇨🇮. Great to see you out on the Road. Your home and dry with this one. Another nice Car done and dusted. Your a Legend Dean.
Paint is obviously mismatched, definitely needs blending at the very least. You also forgot to add the cost of 2 tyres to the final cost. Enjoyed this series, well done!
Sorry to say Dean but the paint match isn’t the best, the new paint is quite abit darker than the original paint, if it was me I would get the doors blended
It is called reflection of light on 'metallic' color base because of the crystals in the paint that pops out the color looking more better, but this paint base has also this 'negative' side.... And it's normal that in some scenarios it will look like in different shade. Few times i also have acknowledged that it seems like my car panels have different color shades, but it is only play of light in the daily 'sun' and the perspective. And no! My car is not re-painted and im the first owner... 😉
Amazing work, I love the attention to detail. It’s a good job you were the one that bought this. Someone else may have not found all that bodged repair work straight away and been driving around in it for a while. I’m not sure if it would’ve been safe with that wing repair?
My E92 also threw up abs, ecs, tire pressure warnings from the steering angle sensor recently when I’d changed all the front suspension components and didn’t get the track rods set close enough. Wheel alignment done and a 15 mile drive and they all reset themselves. Had feared the worse
I found the best way to check your paintwork is to wait until it’s dark & pull into a garage for fuel.. For some reason the garage lighting picks out different shades..
That drivers wing is 100% darker than bonnet and original panels/paint. Was that the second hand white wing? Great work and another top video as always!
I had the same problem with the steering angle/ tracking on my Landrover Discovery but my steering wheel was more off horizontal than this. It also through up loads of faults like the suspension lowering. Correcting the wheel alignment solved all the other errors.
It’s good you’re taking it to Quattro-Tech, top lads good work. If you need help on paint code or parts you should go to TPS… genuine parts at trade price. If you need any details let me know… I’m the BDM for Peterborough & Norwich. Used to work in Cambridge. 👍🏽
Unfortunately agree with other comments with regards to the paint, deffo needs to be blended. Can get away with a bumper most of the time even if you have it scanned. The issue with DVLA and taxing is because the previous owner hasn’t declared they has sold / passed the car on. DVLA will write to the previous keeper and say… hey, someone has applied for a log book for your car, have you sold it? Then they notify DVLA they have and the logbook gets issued or they ignore the letter and you have to wait the full 6 weeks. Luckily you have the trade plates and don’t need to worry about it. Very nice job though mate. Definitely best option to get everything genuine especially with the age of the car!
Love the channel… I like how you throw it out there you don’t know everything and you ask for input… but… my OCD went into overdrive when you built the bumper back up onto a dirty shell…. Nooooooooo 😮 give it a wipe man!! Now I’ll always know there are mud splatters at its core 😂😂
I'd say the orientation of the metallic flakes is wrong on the wing, as they were sprayed separately, but will prob need good sand and reblend the bonnet, wing and bumper. Looking great though all the same 👌
My Dad’s 2006 Audi A4 3.2 had the steering angle sensor out and it would turn off the traction control and abs as these both rely on the steering angle sensor for proper application of braking and traction control. Disconnecting the battery for a while fixed it.
I had the same problem taxing my one year old Audi Q5. I never had the V5 sent to me and also moved address so when I came to tax it I couldn’t like you (no V5) After a lot of wasted time in post offices and on the phone to the DVLA I finally got someone at DVLA to tax on my behalf so I could use the car before the V5 turned up (still on arrived) It would worth a call to the DVLA if you want to tax it but it’s a case of getting the right person as some said it couldn’t be done but I got it done, eventually!
On some scanners, there is a calibration mode in the settings, where you can put the car into calibration mode for the ACC. Just driving the car will not work. The car needs to know it is in calibration mode. It should then take about 3 to 5 miles for it to finish. Once the ACC is not available warning goes away, it has finished calibrating.
Tracking being out will put the traction light on if its massively out. Did it on my 2013 Audi TTRS when I changed the track rod end. Got the tracking done and it went away a mile later.
Ouch on the screen I have a salvage T Roc Tsi Evo R line genuine screen was £238 from my local TPS, re the ESP if the alignment is out the steering angle sensor will pick up that it’s not straight ahead and upset everything you can either check with VCDS to see straight ahead steer angle or get wheel alignment redone it may then require the steering wheel to be recentralised during the tracking or it will be done on the suspension adjustment the new Golf 8 are really sensitive and get upset easily your T Roc looks very new so might be the newer gen and awkward mine is 2020 so more Golf 7 technology Love the videos
Maybe that will help you; I had problem with front assist error showing on random on 2023 VW Arteon R-Line. Took it to the dealer and they replaced the steering wheel so that might be the case on your car aswell; won't hurt checking that out
The newly painted parts are much darker than the old paint. In such cases, part of the old part is painted with the new color. Only then will you no longer sie any difference. It will be even clearer in the light color.
Not a great VAG fan but at least you can seem to get all the parts with little hassle, even internal body pressings. I would do tracking as a matter of course - SRUK always do it and many cars prove to be out of tolerance. Your paint shop should be able to match the inner wing basecoat - a rattle can would be too glossy?
The paint colour could be due to photon creep, this occurs when the paint adheres to the metal in a direction opposite to that intended, thus giving the effect you see where it looks like a different shade from some directions. You should check with the paint shop whether they grounded the wing before applying each coat. If they didn't, another coat (with it grounded) may be necessary - along with blending.
DON'T Blend into the door. it's the white showing through. Sand down to the factory primer, hence why the other side matches. The paint in the engine bay is the same as the body. Minus the clear coat, that's why it's flat. Why wouldn't you get a 4 wheel alignment to check the tracking. Especially after a crash and replacing the tires. Don't go cheap now...
As someone who has the ability to do his own repair it’s cost effective. However what would the cost have been had Labour been charged for as well - would be interesting to know.
I just got done repairing a cat s seat arona from 2019 and i had about 6 errors come up on the screen after everything mechanical was replaced regarding start stop, headlight levelling, parkpilot etc, a lot of the systems the car uses require proper communication between all the traction control components and the steering angle sensor is one of those, as soon as the tracking got done every error disappeared on its own
The 'internals' are not clear coated and are usually manually applied, the externals are robot applied and much better in terms of a consistent laydown ( the metallic flakes will all lay the same due to the electrostatic effect of the atomiser ). You will also see that the factory clearcoat is probably tinted. In summary - you cant match it.
