Matt,
The wire wheel method will work ok, but will take forever. I'd first
try a little chemical persuasion.
Go to your local home center (Home Depot, Lowes, yadda yadda) and hit
the paint department.
Look for products by Jasco. They make various types of chemical
strippers, which really work
well. You may have to try a few different types, since I don't know
what the composition of VW's
undercoating is. Get a few chip brushes for applicators, and a
couple of different sizes of putty
knives for scrapping. Once the stripper has removed the bulk of the
coating, then you can go at
it with the wire brush to get the remainder. Another thing you
could do is go to
http://www.eastwoodco.com/index.jsp
and see what they have for this purpose.
Have fun. Stripping undercoating/paint/wax/etc. is ALWAYS fun!
--Holland
[email protected]
On Mar 16, 2007, at 9:06 AM, Matthew Yip wrote:
I'm hoping that someone has a simple, sure-fire method of removing
undercoating from the wheel wells of an A2. This was supposed to
be my project last winter but I spent that time trying rebuild the
car after a chance encounter with a Rabbit and then a tyre wall.
Now that the car is back in one piece, I'm trying to do all the
things I didn't complete when I built it like remove the tonnes of
undercoating that was sprayed onto the car when it was build.
Dent Fix Supply (or whatever they're called) sells a very nice kit
that includes an air-grinder and three wire wheels (of sorts, not
your normal wire wheel, that's for sure) that claim to cut thru
undercoating and seam sealer without breaking a sweat. However the
price is $200!!! I'm considering buying a small grinder anyways
since I don't have one and using a knotted wire-wheel since the
knotted wire wheels look fairly stiff.
Anyone ever try this method? I know it'll make one helluva mess
but I want to ditch as much undercoating and seam sealer as
possible as the car is currently 200+ lbs overweight with me in the
car. And no, I can't lose that much weight - just my skeleton will
cause the car to be overweight...
Matthew
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