Update time! Had some hurdles with ICE. In short: had to swap the amplifiers as the original one wasn't functioning properly so now I am using even older rockford fosgate 4.6X which is really ROCKING :grin: )
After that was sorted (the original RF 400a4 was sent to be repaired, in more details here: http://www.projectpuma.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&p=334803#p334803" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false
decided it would be now good time to sort my sills. The thing with them was they were in pretty bad shape after this winter. Our roads get covered in salt and gravel and the car gets quite a beating in the proces so the sills, front wings and bottom of the doors and the bottom part of rear panels were full of stonechips.
I went to see the guy who resprayed the car and he told me that it wasn't normal and that in the same batch with mine was at least ten cars who had the same fate. It would turn out he received a bad batch of PPG clearcoat which he used only to find out later it wasn't durable as it was supposed to be. He complained to the guy who was representing PPG and he rejected it on basis that was to be expected. But the bodyshop owner wouldn't take it and he redid the cars at his own cost as he didn't want them to look bad as he was the one who did them. Noone at later date would be interested in bad clearcoat; everyone would conclude it was bad workmanship!
So he resprayed: both front wings, both doors, both sills and the bottom part of rear quarters just for the price of material as he would pay it and total came to, I am really ashamed to say, 50 GBP! Ok, he didn't bother to give a receipt, but since he was doing it at his own expense no one could or should complain,I would say?
And this is the result of his work. He said this time he didn't even thin the clearcoat to make sure it would take the beating better and gave it an extra thickness...
A bit of detail
This is the area that took the worst of it as the paintjob got sanded down to metal and it started to rust. They cleared with wire brush and reported the sills are sound, no rust on them :grin:
And the car in total
My plan now is to protect the sills using the vinil stickers. These can be found on some of neweish cars (like Toyota yaris) and this summer will do some sills protection in CF to be put over them and protect them in long run. Also kind of hope that black CF would look good in contrast to the moondust silver. The plan is to make them exact fit, no widening, lowering or anything like it, just to cover the sills like a good suite for additional protection