1-2 above rear bumper corrosion & fix AUDI V8

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Old 03-10-2013, 07:24 AM
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hey there I thought I would post some picture of a repair i did. Note that this was a metal replacement, with very little bondo. Here are the first five pictures of ten.

picture one, is the start, you can see a little corriosion
picture two, once the grindding starts you can see how bad it is.
picture three,after gridding wholee frick!!!
picture four,cut bad metal out
picture five, old piece, new formed piece of metal
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Looks good, I suspect ill be doing that one at least two of the cars cars this summer. Keep us posted on the finished product.
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If I was to do the job again >>>> i'd go to a junk yard and find a good back end off of an Audi V8/100/200/5000 and replace the whole area.
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ok good to know. there was a 5000 in the yard just the other day...i didnt look to see how it was.
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yes get a nice little di-Grinder and you could cut the piece out very easily. did you see the finished product on the second post?

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I did see it and it looks pretty good from where I'm sitting. Way better than before.
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