Soundwave Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 By the time you're done with this, it'll be the best remaining example of the Mazda/Fiesta bastard lovechild in the world! Top stuff. Ben_O, LightBulbFun and Kringle 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_O Posted June 25, 2021 Author Share Posted June 25, 2021 17 minutes ago, Soundwave said: By the time you're done with this, it'll be the best remaining example of the Mazda/Fiesta bastard lovechild in the world! Top stuff. Well on one side anyway! adw1977 and mk2_craig 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kringle Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 Mazda UK might* want this for their collection. Top work! Ben_O 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phil_lihp Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 This is quite brilliant, more of this please. Ben_O 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted June 25, 2021 Share Posted June 25, 2021 Swift progress!! What are you doing for door rubbing strips - managed to get a matched pair or just leaving them off entirely? Also - straying off topic - is that the PINK Mini you were cracking on with a while back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_O Posted June 25, 2021 Author Share Posted June 25, 2021 1 hour ago, mk2_craig said: Swift progress!! What are you doing for door rubbing strips - managed to get a matched pair or just leaving them off entirely? Also - straying off topic - is that the PINK Mini you were cracking on with a while back? The door rubbing strip on the front door is correct. The rear door is a replacement off a fiesta at skme point in the past. The front one will go again but not sure where to get a replacement rear? They will stay off for the time being. And yes that is the pink mini under all the junk lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_O Posted June 25, 2021 Author Share Posted June 25, 2021 Whilst waiting for the primer, I stripped the front bumper and slugged some stopper in the worst bits. I'm not going for perfection with this as the plastic is all crazed so will never ever look great. Nothing can be done about it. Hey ho. Then I flatted the primer Then did the last little bit of sealing up Ready to paint on Monday! vulgalour, Isopon, BL Bloke and 26 others 29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HMC Posted June 26, 2021 Share Posted June 26, 2021 Brilliant stuff, and so speedy!! It feels like the AS equivalent of a box set binge with all the “episodes” at once. mercedade, Ben_O, LightBulbFun and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_O Posted June 29, 2021 Author Share Posted June 29, 2021 All painted I didn't order quite enough paint to do the rear bumper bit it's not damaged from the smack so I'll just polish it up. Cheers Ben Six-cylinder, Ian_Fearn, puntopaul and 30 others 33 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soundwave Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 Amazing! And so quick too, at this point I'd probably still be trying to get the door trim off... Marm Toastsmith, LightBulbFun, Ben_O and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BL Bloke Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 Great work and quick too. 500tops 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraWomble Posted June 29, 2021 Share Posted June 29, 2021 Great work, and so quick too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_O Posted June 30, 2021 Author Share Posted June 30, 2021 Still a few bits to finish on this but I have just run out of time and it's in the way. Bits left to do: Fit the awful door lock (just struggling with that) Finish building up the front door Stone chip rear inner arch and fit liner Clean up and stonechip around the rear axle mounts on inner sills Not sure when that will be so it's banished to the compound till I find the time Six-cylinder, goosey, Dan302 and 32 others 34 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy - Medhurst Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 11 hours ago, Ben_O said: Looks a lot better / smoother without the rubbing strips. Ben_O and UltraWomble 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sierraman Posted June 30, 2021 Share Posted June 30, 2021 Excellent work there mate. LightBulbFun, tooSavvy and Ben_O 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian_Fearn Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 @Ben_O this looks fantastic! What sort of seam sealer do you use? Whenever I apply this stuff it looks like a child has thrown it on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_O Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 51 minutes ago, Ian_Fearn said: @Ben_O this looks fantastic! What sort of seam sealer do you use? Whenever I apply this stuff it looks like a child has thrown it on. Cheers! I always avoid silaflex type sealers on body seams as they are too thick and don't real creep. I also avoid brush on type sealers in the tin for the same reason. The product I use is by wurth and is called dichtfix. Its a PU spray able sealer that comes in a tube and can be applied with a caulking gun. It's quite a runny texture so forces well into gaps and clean up is a doddle with some panel wipe and a cloth. It brushes on nicely too and I have a spray applicator too which reproduces factory sealer appearance. That can be seen on the pictures I showed of sealing up the inner arch. Wurth is only really available to the trade but if you search PU spray able sealers, you will find something the same. Cheers Ben Kringle, tooSavvy and Ian_Fearn 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOtherStu Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 1 hour ago, Ben_O said: Wurth is only really available to the trade but if you search PU spray able sealers, you will find something the same. Seem to be a few sellers on the bay who are looking to make a profit, but will relieve you of some readies for it. Looks like there were previous sellers, particularly in Eastern Europe, who will send to the UK, but these days the tax and shipping will make it not viable. So when you say you use a caulking gun but it's sprayable, how do you spray it? I mean, I've got a compressor and paint spray equipment, but this would be far too thick to put in a gun. If I was to be putting a bodykit on a car (well, moving from one to another), would the wurth bond (klibt and dichtet) be a better option? I've always used sika (Always used it on my boat too when I had that), but it's messy and as Ian said, it looks like a child did it. By the way, to bring back to the OP, this is a fine job. I'm really impressed. The fact that you have access to a paint spraying booth means that this was a viable job. For those that don't have £2k+ hanging around to respray our vehicles (before the cost of having panels fixed), it would have been an instant write-off, or at least a very amateur looking job. Ben_O 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_O Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 1 hour ago, TheOtherStu said: Seem to be a few sellers on the bay who are looking to make a profit, but will relieve you of some readies for it. Looks like there were previous sellers, particularly in Eastern Europe, who will send to the UK, but these days the tax and shipping will make it not viable. So when you say you use a caulking gun but it's sprayable, how do you spray it? I mean, I've got a compressor and paint spray equipment, but this would be far too thick to put in a gun. If I was to be putting a bodykit on a car (well, moving from one to another), would the wurth bond (klibt and dichtet) be a better option? I've always used sika (Always used it on my boat too when I had that), but it's messy and as Ian said, it looks like a child did it. I did notice some on amazon a while ago by Soudal. I use their PU adhesive. So the dichtfix is a PU sealer and is not an adhesive. It can't be used to stick a bodykit on but could be used to seal the edges after it was glued on. It comes in these tubes and in a caulking gun, just pumps out like sikaflex etc but just faster and easier as it's much runnier. It doesn't like working upside down unless you are very careful. When i say it can be sprayed on, I didn't mean with a conventional spray gun. The tube goes into a special cartridge gun. This is it There is a different end to go on the sealer tube and then we can adjust the flow rate and texture to spray it over seams to replicate the factory stuff like this hope that helps Burnside, Back_For_More, Andyrew and 7 others 7 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UltraWomble Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 18 hours ago, Billy - Medhurst said: Looks a lot better / smoother without the rubbing strips. Just thinking exactly the same thing. Ben_O 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 @Ben_O Excellent progress and great to see the Fordza back looking straight and shiny again. Surely it's worth paying a fella to sort the few outstanding bits though? Seems such a shame to get so far in such a short space of time and then leave it sit for the foreseeable. Don't let it be another pink Mini! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOtherStu Posted July 1, 2021 Share Posted July 1, 2021 3 hours ago, Ben_O said: I did notice some on amazon a while ago by Soudal. I use their PU adhesive. So the dichtfix is a PU sealer and is not an adhesive. It can't be used to stick a bodykit on but could be used to seal the edges after it was glued on. It comes in these tubes and in a caulking gun, just pumps out like sikaflex etc but just faster and easier as it's much runnier. It doesn't like working upside down unless you are very careful. When i say it can be sprayed on, I didn't mean with a conventional spray gun. The tube goes into a special cartridge gun. This is it There is a different end to go on the sealer tube and then we can adjust the flow rate and texture to spray it over seams to replicate the factory stuff like this hope that helps Thank you An excellent appraisal. I'll continue my search for a decent adhesive. tooSavvy and Ben_O 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_O Posted July 1, 2021 Author Share Posted July 1, 2021 5 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said: @Ben_O Excellent progress and great to see the Fordza back looking straight and shiny again. Surely it's worth paying a fella to sort the few outstanding bits though? Seems such a shame to get so far in such a short space of time and then leave it sit for the foreseeable. Don't let it be another pink Mini! Cheers. I didn't mean to give the impression this was going to be forgotten about. FIL wants it back ASAP so I won't get away with it lol. I just meant that I wouldn't be able to get it finished right away and incidentally, I am planning to finish it tomorrow evening. Had lots of pressing work to finish up the latter part of this week so it had to be shoved out the way unfortunately. Cheers Ben LightBulbFun, mercedade and Datsuncog 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted July 2, 2021 Share Posted July 2, 2021 10 hours ago, Ben_O said: Cheers. I didn't mean to give the impression this was going to be forgotten about. FIL wants it back ASAP so I won't get away with it lol. I just meant that I wouldn't be able to get it finished right away and incidentally, I am planning to finish it tomorrow evening. Had lots of pressing work to finish up the latter part of this week so it had to be shoved out the way unfortunately. Cheers Ben Excellent! I think we've all enjoyed seeing an almost unicorn status car come back from the brink. LightBulbFun, Ben_O and 500tops 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_O Posted July 2, 2021 Author Share Posted July 2, 2021 Right, the doors are back together now thats an interior thora herd would be proud of I even treated it to a full compliment of new wiper blades the other day when I put the washer bottle back, I couldn't get any water at the screen. I was dreading fault finding that issue but it was a miracle and now works without any intervention. Woo how Under side next greengartside, danthecapriman, GrumpiusMaximus and 11 others 14 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_O Posted July 2, 2021 Author Share Posted July 2, 2021 It's remarkably solid under there. Lots of flaky bits but no holes or thin spots same the other side. I'm running out of patience now and want to go home so I scraped it, wire brushed it and applied some zinc and then stoneware better than nothing. just needs a wash and a hoover now cheers Ben Dick Longbridge, CGSB, outlaw118 and 16 others 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_O Posted July 9, 2021 Author Share Posted July 9, 2021 I've removed the strips from the other side in the end. Looks better And then scrubbed the absolute fuck out of it. Looks half presentable now Thanks for looking in but that's it for this little car now. cheers Ben Ted Eggs, catsinthewelder, JMotor and 44 others 47 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dick Longbridge Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 Excellent work! The unicorn rides again! I bet your FIL (or is it father?) is chuffed to bits! Ben_O 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rob88h Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 What a result! That little Fiesta Mazda won the Lottery. LightBulbFun and Ben_O 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben_O Posted July 9, 2021 Author Share Posted July 9, 2021 29 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said: Excellent work! The unicorn rides again! I bet your FIL (or is it father?) is chuffed to bits! He hasn't seen it yet. He will have it back Monday I showed him (father in law btw) photos and he is pleased with it. Cheers Ben Burnside, tooSavvy, Shite Ron and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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