The VWs that got fixed free were all diesels that had an additional foam sound deadener that held water and crud that caused the problem.


As for fixing it yourself, I hope your weighing the options, your over $100 in material alone for something that may or may not work. But I'll help non the less ...

After all the loose stuff is off, and the rust/contamination is gone, that should stop the peeling back. You can do a light scuff sanding, (anything to course will cut through the galvanized coating and be worse for you. Touching up is temp because is can still peel off and/or rust there is no real ...

Well its hard to estimate for you as Canadian pricing is different, I would guess $350-$500

I would highly recommend having it fixed by the pros, you can touch it up (like I did) buy that's a temp fix AT BEST.

Yeah definitely acid based. But you'd be fine for what you need, your just cleaning and wiping dry nothing prolonged. I know its not cheap, but neither is your car.
You could try the other stuff to, might work the same or close.

That may work, never seen it. What i use is made by BASF and called 801 metal conditioner.

For some reason, the paint on these Holden cars is very "hard" or "brittle" as my body shop friend told me when he was working on mine years back. Meaning, a good impact with an errant rock, creates a larger than normal chip and/or chunk taken down to the base.

But yea, us GTO owners suffer some ...

how it first looked
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/peterg22000/20140303_172925.jpg
after cleaning (and pealing all loose paint
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/peterg22000/20140303_174325.jpg
other side (the next day)
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a394/peterg22000/20140304 ...

Yep, both side same spot last week. I would get a close look at the other side if I were you..

Remover ANY lose painting the area pick at it if you have to, than clean the surface rust off, its not rusting the metal yet. Its still only on the "sacrificial coating" on the galvanized surface (don't ...

00Beast wrote:Yeah I saw that John in the other thread. Thinking about it. Remote start would be really nice this winter...

what am I missing here? our cars come with that...

Haven't been around these parts much as of the past year or so :???:

But I was doing some lurking and see that here are a hell of a gathering of G8's slowly building, so I figured I'd show of mine since it hasn't been seen in a long time here, and there has been lots of modding in that time. :wink ...

What a weekend so far!

Must be wearing people out, Friday night we were up until about 5 am and everyone was up and going by 9 am. Last night we were all dead by around 4 am and so far only two people other then Heather and I are even alive yet hahaha!

Watch out for a pic thread to be posted ...

Without running out to the car to double check, I'm going to say perforated

My HSV GTS wheel is doing it as well. Maybe ⅛" - ¼" but I noticed it. I'll just live with it, not paying that much for another wheel again.

goes without saying, but you know I'm always down for these..

How do you have G8's and not be on G8Board? :)

Don't fall for that Grrrr8.net or whatever. He was one of the disruptive %&(*&_(&%# that we banned from G8Board. He got his undies in a bunch and went and created his own board. Then spammed members on G8Board through PM to come join his. G8Board is ...

I would love the 3 gauge setup that John has, but it's big bucks, and you can no longer get the HSV gauges. so I'd have to populate it with other gauges.


Not true at all, you just have to keep a sharp eye on Grrrr8.net I'm always helping the guy(CrazyPaul) get them so that he can sell them to ...

Your 20" wheels look so hot but aren't you worried about damaging them on those rough TO frost heaved streets?

My brother had 20" on his car and lost a couple of wheels to pot holes.

I just read a write up in the most recent Automobile mag on a new Charger with the 20" wheels and they damaged 3 ...

After months of searching, I finally found one.


I know all about this. Jerry was texting me for months with different G8 possibilitys.. Got me going So many times :btruestory:

I'm very glad you did end up getting though. I cant wait to see it.. Maybe if the weather holds out long enough ...

if its a bang for the buck thing, then all of the above!

and for the most eye catching, it depends on colour, if your car is black, or dark blue maybe, then a good wax is most eye catching, if its a light colour, then the wheels would be the most eye catching.