Melburg Luft

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

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

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

Welcome Back...

Post up the news on whats been happenin

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

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

Welcome back and update away!

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.

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.

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...)

I've put up some photos here.