FTO AUSTRALIA

rock_it wrote:Top job mate .. Good to see another Black FTO coming back to good repair .. Love the look of these things in black ...

Thanks dude.

Gholdwayne wrote:wow this is monster effort man, i never thought you would go for a full respray and fix those small body imperfections, thats good man! and if you're going for a respray, are you staying with the stock pyranese black ? pretty sure it wont be too expensive as it looks like an easy color for paint

Heh, I'm like my father, a perfectionist when it comes to things that I love .. Not sure about the respray was just an idea - if i could I would go for a blacker-black o_O.. Haha.I heard the BMW black is nice but anyway.... Thats just....... too far away to think about right now, too much other sh*t to fix T_T



Aight, update;

Since I got my car back my sunroof won't close at all, (it used to close when I helped it along) but now whenever it shuts it just opens again T_T..
I rang up the shop & told him and he said just undo the bolts etc etc move it a little n try, nps i'll do that later, and told him about the 3 imperfections in the paint that I wasn't too happy with and he said he's more then happy to fix it as soon as it stops raining up here.

Can't wait to get everything fixed and out of the way.

Thanks guys,
Kustom.

would the sunroof fully close then open again ? or does it open again on the way to closing ? it used to happen to me, from fully open, i'd close it, then about 3/4 of the way through it would go back to fully open, and the problem was a tiny piece of plastic was semi broken and it was blocking the sunroof's closing, so what i did was i just fully broke that tiny piece off , it looked like a tiny ramp thing i think to guide the sunroof to get fully flush, you might have the same problem, then again, you might not..

Nah it fully closes, goes flat then goes back up lol

thats strange, are all the plugs correctly in ?

mine did that but that was when i decided to close it on my girlfriends little brothers head haha

And about the bumper and sideskirts, he said $450.

Good work stef, keep it mate.

oh and yeah get some pics up of the finished roof repair

I8A4RE wrote:Good work stef, keep it mate.

oh and yeah get some pics up of the finished roof repair

Thanks dude,

Yeah will do, soon, my friend, soon! haha

silverGPX wrote:mine did that but that was when i decided to close it on my girlfriends little brothers head haha

And about the bumper and Sideskirts, he said $450.

$450 for both bumper and Sideskirts? Is that including fitting & paint matching?

Thanks dude, I guess i'll be see'ing you toowoombian's within the next month or so!

Gholdwayne wrote:thats strange, are all the plugs correctly in ?

Yeah dude defiantly.

check the rails if theres something in it that could be blocking it from fully FULLY closing.. there might be a tiny rock or somethign.. something as small as that can annihilate the world ... aka not let the sunroof close

Gholdwayne wrote:check the rails if theres something in it that could be blocking it from fully FULLY closing.. there might be a tiny rock or somethign.. something as small as that can annihilate the world ... aka not let the sunroof close

Yeah dude will do tomorrow, gonna take it out and try to re-allign it if i can.

Btw guys these are the rim's i'm gonna be getting on the FTO when I get some cash


What do you think?

They will look awesome... love the black on black with the chrome braking it up

how much?

glad to see your getting it all sorted out stef,all takes time,i like the rims,all the best taffy

Yeah rims look sweet mate. Suit the car vey well

+1 on the rims ... Nice ...

are you going to care about offset stef ?

Gholdwayne wrote:are you going to care about offset stef ?

Nope

KJ_bob wrote:They will look awesome... love the black on black with the chrome braking it up

how much?

$1050 with 4x 235.45 R17 Tyres, or they are $190.00 ea for the rims... Will those tyres scrub ? (The rims are 17" FYI)

taffysturbo wrote:glad to see your getting it all sorted out stef,all takes time,i like the rims,all the best taffy

Haha thanks man, too bad you can't keep your car .. such a sad day when it goes. lol

I8A4RE wrote:Yeah rims look sweet mate. Suit the car vey well

Thanks, I wanted them but in silver on my old one but all the money went on repairs lol.
You can see here they are 10 multistud where as in the other pic they are 8.

rock_it wrote:+1 on the rims ... Nice ...

Thanks dude

We have 235x45 on the rear, but they did scrub up the front.
We ended up putting 215x45s on the front, so the rear end looks more chunky with the wider tyres.

Astron_Boy wrote:We have 235x45 on the rear, but they did scrub up the front.
We ended up putting 215x45s on the front, so the rear end looks more chunky with the wider tyres.

Ahh okay, I guess i'll see how I go then

Okay....
So I just got back from some guys down here that install Sunroof's, They were nice enough to help me out and diagnose my problem, and I have a broken piece, its like above the rail and supports the ... uhh thing that goes on the rail (that holds the sunroof) and without it it just won't work. The passenger side one works fine, I will take the sunroof out again to take some pictures, probably get onto that tomorrow, see if dwayne has one and if not its to the wreckers for me to try to find a FTO w/ a sunroof... heh.... chances?

Aight guys will let you know how i go,
Thanks!

similar problem to mine, yet totally different

man taking out the sunroof by yourself and putting it back on, maaan, goddamnit. would make such a great weight reduction item.

lets see the pictures...

oh, and that silver wheel you posted, that looks nice! actually, it kinda reminds me of tyson's rims

Gholdwayne wrote:similar problem to mine, yet totally different

man taking out the sunroof by yourself and putting it back on, maaan, goddamnit. would make such a great weight reduction item.

lets see the pictures...

oh, and that silver wheel you posted, that looks nice! actually, it kinda reminds me of tyson's rims

Heh haha yeh lol the sunroofs are preety heavy,

Yeah I like them a lot.

Heres some pictures guys that have been asking only off my phone so yeah, and nice and dirty since lately its just been in shops etc etc





And even with the stock suspension in, its monster truck all aruond but the front bar is still reasonably low, I had to put some planks on my driveway to get in .. I can't angle it too much on my driveway due to hedges lol.

This is how low it is ... I just chucked the chips there so you can see.. lol

the welds look fine, but im missing something, arent there multiple lines of roof rust ? i can see only one line of weld or that black stuff on each of the front & back, whats going on there ?