VW T4 Restoration and Driveway Respray Ep 7 Final FINISHING

The final part of the respray project. In this episode im Wet flatting the van, and polishing, and also glazing the vehicle.

Its now finished and looking better than expected.

Lockdown has given us plentry of time to do stuff round the house, so im ignoring all those jobs by renovating the van. Started off with just repairing the rust, but that turned out to be every panel , and the colour i got wasnt quite a match so there was only one option really. This is not a show quality respray, as its very far from ideal situation to spray the van in, but itsl be good enough for me, and im pretty picky.

This is NOT a How-To, because ive never not done much of this before which will become apparent, but mearly a log of what im doing. Ive got the time, so if it takes me a weeks it takes weeks, which lockdown has given us due to the corona virus.

This is not my trade, more my hobby it seems, getting most off my info off Youtube, namely The Gunman, austrailian sprayer whos not afraid to share his skills with others.

Equipment used, i bought a cheap 24 ltr compresor ( soon to be changed as the job got too big) which is ok for panel at a time work,
devlisbiss SLG starting line gun £70
Makita BO6050j Sander/Polisher £250
small Da £20
Mini air sander £30
Big compressor 100ltr 14cfn 8bar, £300 (machine mart)
Plus basic garage equipment.

[haskyb]

Came out really nice, mate. I'm sat here watching this vid and looking at my Paprika Red T4 out in the rain, and you're inspiring me to do something with it

[jamiejones]

That colour is really nice what is the paint code also what size tyres are you running

[DanTheManIOM]

came here from Trev Blog on polishing, well done....

[sg]

Well done. To take on this job and achieve the results you got is amazing. Looks superb. Any reason why you used cellulose paint?

[mihaipasztor]

Hi...nice joob...i'm now at 3 day's till paint day:) i will make some footege...for memory album;))