Help Me Please

[bigmontana]

My 89 Jetta Wolfsburg, which at one time was a nice car, but because I live here there was bad rust issues. At the time I had a friend who was part owner of a car customization shop and I was always under the assumption that he knew what he was doing, and being that my car was rusty I needed him to fix the rust and do a little customization. This is where everything went terribly wrong. I wanted to make custom tailights and shave my doors and trim. He convinced me to not do bolt on aftermarket pieces but to let him create a custom made back panel with custom round tailight. so stupid me I let him cut the whole back panel of my car off. What resulted was what you see in the following pictures. The ugly paint that was my doing I decided since it was already wrecked I make it worse. After he shaved my door handles and wired in poppers they worked for a little bit but now only the drivers door works. The trunk never did seal up, and I wanted a spoiler like what is on a GLI, but know he made the ugly steal one, and my custom taiolights became four semi trailer LEDs he put in crudly cut circular holes. I'm so mad that Everytime I go out to my driveway I want to kick his ass.

The problem is that this was my first VW I bought and paid for and it runs so well. I love the car and I do not really want to get rid of it. Can any body help me. do I tear the old panel off, and trust me it can be done he only tacked two welds on either side of the car, and for his paint work, I bought expensive blue paint and because he did not want to bother to ask a paint expert after he shot the paint it started to flake off. I took good old fashioned house paint, applied it with a brush and it stays on better than his paint, and all of the body work he did in the corners was cracking right away.

So I'm open for any ideas, the car runs awesome and aside from a REALLY UGLY rear end and bad wiring job it is a good car. do I sell it to one of you guys so you could resurrect it, I'm kind of thinking of making it into a little pickup, but I'm not sure how to go about it.

I know it is ugly and please do not make fun. The dumb exhaust will not stay on if I keep the car. After he did what he did I sort of turned it into a clown car with the dumb emblems, paint and exhaust. It actually got a lot of looks. Don't shun I really never wanted it to look this way. I guess I should have just fixed the rust my self, got different door handles and different lights. But we live and learn. I definatly knopw who and who not to trust.

Thanks for any input I appreciate it and I hope I get some.

Here are the pics










[/img]

[MK 4 GTI]

The paint job reminds me of a car I once had........I got pissed at it and bashed it with a baseball bat, then spray painted it 10 different colors!!!!

As for how to fix it I don't know, I'm not a bodyman. Maby get some bondo and shape it the way you want it????????

[bigmontana]

Thanks for the idea, can you reshape bondo in forms with out it cracking. I wish we could make some sort of a plaster form without cracking. Thanks for the input. I'll take all of the advise I can get.

[MK 4 GTI]

Like I said....I AM NOT a body man, so I am not sure how much bondo can be done at once. I imagine to get larger sections, you would build it up layer by layer.

Hopefully a body tech can answer this question on bondo, I am curious as to how much can be used at once!

[bigmontana]

The only thing I know about bondo is that if it is too thick it can crack and that is part of the problem, on the corners on the rear the bondo was cracking right away.

What do you think about me turning it into a pick up some how? That is kind of where i'm leaning. If it is doable, I'm not sure how I can make it.

[Rennwagen1]

1. I wish I could see the pics
2. DO NOT use Bondo Brand, use Evercoat, it works so much better.
3. Without pics, that is all I have.

[bigmontana]

I'll try to resend them theyt were there I don't know why they come on and then disappear. I'll try them again.

I don't want to use bondo period I'd like to put a factory rear end on it again or make it into a pick up which ever is easier, or try to sell it. Any ideas suggestions, or oppinions. I'll try to resend the pics.

Any reasons why the first day I put on my post they work and then they are blank with x's in the corner? Is it because I use photobucket or does that matter? What do you guys use to post your pics?

[bigmontana]

Here is my second attempt at sending them

Hope this works

[bigmontana]

Do you think a pick up could be done or should I sell it/part it out and if I should sell it would any one here want to buy it, it runs and drives just has an ugly ass end. I'd like to keep it if I can fix the back end but I do have two other projects that are more important right now, my Bug and I'd like to repaint and add stuff to my GLI, I'm not making the GLI ugly, just a fresh Tornado red spray and new bumpers and trim and either smoked or clear lights and signals and a stubby antenna and new spound system, hopefully someday down the road new engine, but the bug is getting done first.

[Ramrod]

I vote parts car. I really cant see any reason to invest money in it when you can get one for cheap. Maybe find one with a blown engine that somebody will let go for a good price, swap the engine and sell it.

You could try jumping it too