To much filler

[cossiedavid]

Doing a stag at work and found all this for no reson

[cossiedavid]

The hole panel

[Cochyn]

Is that fibreglass resin in the middle there or are my eyes just shot and its just a darker shade of filler?

Are there any imperfections in the panel, any dents or anything? Can't see why use it either

[Rippers]

Check out the filler this guy found on the roof of his Camper

[radiant rob]

Holy shit it's a barrow of filler.

[E9CRT]

That stag reminds me of the technique adopted by most of the american resto programmes on tv where they seem to skim the entire shell with bodge as if they are plastering a wall! lol


The camper on the other hand... wtf?!?!?

[Ben Purnell]

holy shit Paul, that's got more plaster on it than the walls in my house

[cossiedavid]

A few pin dents nothing really to have all that filler in
Paul that's mad the van a be a lot lighter with all that gone

[Rippers]

Crazy thing is filler isn't even that cheap I think the Bus came from Brazil
I've seen more of these kind of filler jobs I'll try and find them

[Carlo]

Fuck me some work went into rubbing & shaping that

Paul that roof is crazy

[Cochyn]

A few pin dents nothing really to have all that filler in
Paul that's mad the van a be a lot lighter with all that gone

Must have been a newbie at it, start with just the pin holes then deluding himself thinking all of it won't blend and just bulge instead. Shame really.

[Sunnysidebb]

This is a camper Im working on now to restore and hire out. A 1969 Danbury. Just about all the safety areas were manufactured with filler with little;e or no metal behind.
The bad twats had even made artificial spot weld marks on the return lips .

I come across this all the time with these campers. People doing them up hyper cheap and selling them on for multiples of thousands of pounds. Ive seen recent copies of newspapers stuffed where the sills should be then lacquered over with inches of filler. Real sad if you paid £17k for a Splitty to find its been bodged.

[Sunnysidebb]

Check out the filler this guy found on the roof of his Camper

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2592/...aec336b17d.jpg

Paul,
That van has been deguttered probably due to sever corrosion. New gutters done correctly is a very costly repair. A common bodge is to cut away the gutter and weld up the roof which causes masses of distortion hence the amount of filler used on that roof. Nearly all deguttered roofs that I have seen look just like that....appalling tbh

I would post a lot more of the work I do on campers, ive seen some shockers tbh, but I didn't think any one would be interested until you started your resto tread.... but by then it was too late. Ive been doing this for 25 years alas until 2004 I didn't have adigital camera but since then I have been keeping photo graphic history so the customers can take them to the VW shows .

[Dave]

Bog city lol

Did Busyboy paint it?

[BUSYBOY]

Bog city lol

Did Busyboy paint it?

Oh got somebody else to sort your rusty tailgate have you , don't need me now

Lol
I best on post any pics of bens up then