Well, that took for f***ing ever!

blubeetle · Post by **blubeetle** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:38 pm

I'm back again, after a 50 month hiatus since my first & only post here (don't ask).

Back on the road & registered now & looking forward to some events

NUG637 · Post by **NUG637** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:08 pm

Good stuff... Start a build thread and post up some pictures of what you got, your plans and what you have done

blubeetle · Post by **blubeetle** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:20 pm

Build thread...good idea. Where should that go? Here in Northern Alliance?

Post by **jnr356** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:27 pm

http://melburgluft.com/viewforum.php?f= ... 6b96e2c05f

undercircuit · Post by **undercircuit** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 10:51 pm

Welcome Back...

Post up the news on whats been happenin

MISS VDUB · Post by **MISS VDUB** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:03 pm

You said don't ask, but, what the? 50 month hiatus?

MISS VDUB · Post by **MISS VDUB** » Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:06 pm

PS: This post would be your 10th since joining, I'm assuming you mean thread

Welcome back and update away!

blubeetle · Post by **blubeetle** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:59 am

Thread vs comment vs post...these terms are used differently on different forums, so I'm not gonna get too hung up on that ;P

Short story for the delay is a bunch of absolute fuckwits at the local paint & body shop. How on earth it takes 3 years & 10 months to put a beetle back together after a respray is beyond me. I was about to have the Tribunal help me find out the answer to this question, when finally they found the motivation to put the final few hours into finishing the job they started over 4 years ago.

MISS VDUB · Post by **MISS VDUB** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 7:52 am

Sums up alot of panel shops out there unfortunately, unless you stand there and watch them they do stuff all. Panel shop i dealt with once i literally had to visit every day to see progress as they were more concerned about doing insurance jobs. Took long enough and they still didnt do the job you would expect for the time.

blubeetle · Post by **blubeetle** » Mon Jun 11, 2012 8:44 am

That sums it up perfectly. I must've visited hundreds of times, and most times they'd done f@#k all since the last visit. If they had done anything, they'd done it wrong, like putting on the bumpers minus the bracket seals. I've now gotta pop the back window out as well, just to get the headliner back in place. ("we don't do headliners, you'll have to do that yourself"). I've now got 100% new rubbers too, because they managed to lose every single one, along with a bunch of other parts (bumper brackets, door handle, tail light, etc).

But yeah, insurance jobs are their bread & butter. They said as much: "yours was the last resto we ever took on. We only do insurance work now. People wanting restorations are too fussy"

('Fussy' like wanting the seals that were on the car to go back on when it's reassembled...)

blubeetle · Post by **blubeetle** » Wed Jun 13, 2012 6:56 am

I've put up some photos here.