My MGF progress

Hi all. I've just insured my MGF today so I thought today was a good day to do show the progress it's made since I bought it back in the freezing cold, snowy january.
I bought it knowing it had a water pump leak and that the inside was "a bit fusty"
I made an offer of £350 that was accepted on a 2001 mk2 F with 70,000 miles on the clock and the known problems.
I borrowed a mates trailer and set off in the snow on the 5 hour round trip to fetch it.

Apart from the known problems it looked in good nick although it had a very deep key scratch all the way down the passenger side door. The interior was far from "a bit fusty" though. It was absolutely minging with mould everywhere.

The whole interior came out and the carpets and underlay were replaced and new door and roof seals were purchased to stop the leaks. 2 small holes were fixed in the roof and I then re-proofed the roof with renovo which is an excellent product.

I then resprayed the centre console in mg platinum silver to match the exterior.

Whilst on the forums I saw an F that'd been converted to a TF and decided that's what I wanted to do so I bought the headlights, bootlid and both bumpers for £150.

I decided the end look of the car was going to be matte black so set about spraying the "new" parts and de-badging the bootlid and front bumper.

Next was to get the water pump, cam belt, new stainless steel coolant pipes fitted and a full service done. MG Rover mobile mechanics came out and did a great job so I then put it in for an mot which it passed with a couple of advisories (front and rear subframes showing corrosion)

New black Lexus lights were bought and rear grill mesh sprayed and fitted.

I'd been looking at Plasti-Dip as an option for spraying the car and decided to give it a go so I bought an Earlex electric hvlp spray station and 11 litres of matte black plasti-dip.

I masked off the roof and the bulk of the windows, leaving a strip on the windows that I could paint and then peel off leaving a nice edge (better than trying to mask perfectly to a window seal)

I had already sprayed the inside of door, boot and bonnet shutlines in matte black so it looked like a good job had been done when doors etc were opened.

While the weather was hot and there was no wind I decided to get the car painted.

After watching lots of you-tube videos about how to spray Plasti-dip I set off with a few light coats.

Building up the coats

This picture shows how the Plasti-dip just peels off to leave nice lines wherever a natural line break is.

Once the car was peeled I was left with this

The finish looks and feels really nice and I'm really happy with how it's turned out.

I've still got the wheels to do in order for it to be "stealth" but they'll be done in the next couple of weeks and then it'll be taxed and legal just in time for "the great British winter" LOL.

Sorry it's such a long post but thanks for reading and any comments (good or bad) are welcomed.

What an awesome bargain and transformation! Superb job! :broon:

Amazing stuff! Well done!

I have a tin of plasti dip....

Thats great. You should be proud it looks fantastic. :woohoo: :woohoo:

Not really a lover of matt black cars but that looks good :broon:

Well done :broon:

How well does plasti dip stand up to washing seeing as you can peel it off the lights quite easily???

WOOOOW that looks nice. :broon:

I want to do me F take that.
I see you used 11 liter is that for inside and outside of the car?

Di you just sprayed it outside?
How about dust in the paint, was that a problem?


Oistein

Andy the tyre man wrote: Not really a lover of matt black cars but that looks good :broon:

Well done :broon:

How well does plasti dip stand up to washing seeing as you can peel it off the lights quite easily???

I've washed it a couple of times since I sprayed it and it's fine.

Oistein wrote: WOOOOW that looks nice. :broon:

I want to do me F take that.
I see you used 11 liter is that for inside and outside of the car?

Di you just sprayed it outside?
How about dust in the paint, was that a problem?


Oistein

11 litres was just the outside. I sprayed the shutlines and inside the doors with normal matt black rattle cans.

Yes I just sprayed it outside on the drive. The weather was hot and still so no problems with any dust and thankfully no bugs either :woohoo:

Enjoyed reading this.... What a great transformation! You have done a great job and should be very proud of yourself... Hope you are now enjoying your F (or should I say TF) :broon:

Any more mods planned?

Tina

Thank you.

I'm not enjoying it yet though as I'm waiting till the 1st August to get it taxed :whistle:

Not got any other mods planned really other than maybe a heated glass rear screen. Oh and I have a TF snorkel in the garage waiting to be fitted.

I've just bought a boat as my next project so this will be for sale in the next few days.

Looking for £800 or make me an offer.

You've bought a boat......... and you thought the MG was a money pit! :bust:
Owning a boat is like standing under a cold shower ripping up $100 notes! (in your case they'd be in pounds)
Boat ownership is in another a higher ranked league than that of car ownership, it's up there with planes and marriage.
The is an adage that covers this:
"If it flies, floats or fornicates, your better off renting it!" :bust:

Seriously though, good luck with the boat.

I hope it's not as bad as I'm making it out to be,
But be warned.
There is an unofficial scale that is used to determine profit margins on various consumer items including: clothing, tools, spare parts, components, equipment, etc.
This is in indicated buy certain key words in the description of the item.
Here is a list of just a few of these:
in descending order from lowest profit margin to highest
* Handyman
* Tradesman or Trades, Tradies etc.
* Professional
* Construction
* Industrial
* Automotive
* Sports
* Truck
* Racing
* Golf
* Marine
* Aviation
* Military
* Mil Spec
* Aerospace
* Ladies

You may think that Aviation and Aerospace are pretty well much the same thing but because the word "Aerospace" has the word "space" in it they can and will charge more because it sounds so much cooler! The same goes for Military and Mil Spec or Automotive and Racing etc. The item in question may be exactly the same but by using a sexier word as a prefix they can charge more for it
And of course there is the ultimate profit margin boosting prefix "Ladies" anything with that word as a prefix such as "Ladies Shoes" is gonna cost you!
:lol: :lol: :lol: