Aircooled VW South Africa

who of you do work on you aircooled beetle, kombi, etc that lives in a complex with a garage. eg sanding, cutting, painting and general restoration?

Why??

I just want to know If any of you are doing it. Ive just moved in a complex. I want to have my bus there and fix it. but is affraid the ther persons in the complex will moun about if i use my angle grinder to to grinding.(115mm)

The complex will have a set of rules, consult that!! Also, do the work in reasonable hour of the day. Respect others and they will respect you!

Go to the caretaker and ask for a copy of the rules and see what it says and ask the caretaker if it's allowed
I stay in a complex and do sum maintenance work on my cars, keep the noise to a minimum and keep it clean

The body corporate hate me

Try to do the noisy jobs on a Saturday morning. Then again you get arseholes like the one guy very close to me who starts his weedeater and mower late on a Sunday afternoon, sometimes even his woodworking machines!

I live in an estate and i did this before wont do this again it made a mess at home
but i got no warnings rather pay someone to do it.

Old car restoration and complexes generally don't go together. Body corporates/homeowners' associations universally have rules against doing anything but minor maintenance on cars.

I think that taking an angle grinder to your car in a complex at any time would be inconsiderate, even if not against the rules.

That's why I will never live in a complex.

beetlepower wrote:The body corporate hate me

Ditto

I have a garage and luckily when I am in SA, I am on leave, so I only work on my car during working hours and if I do work into the evening, I close the garage door and dont do anything noisy.

I find its a good way to meet people (and piss others off).

Haha mine complex caretaker is an old frigid lady that needs a serious new south african slap!

But yeah minor work is fine, doubt having a grinder on anytime when people are home is a good idea.

Rather stick to drills,alil hammering and sanding. Power tools are noisy, and i for sure wouldnt like that happening here with me.

what is consider by minor/ major work?

louisvr45 wrote:what is consider by minor/ major work?

The only definition that concerns you is how your body corporate defines it. What we think is irrelevant.

A positive note!
Our security supervisor knows I have all these old cars, and he offered me 5 Rostyles with tyres for R 300.00 bucks last year . He told me he had a Volksie years ago and these were just lying in his wendyhouse