DIY Paint Repair
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DIY Paint Repair
Hey everyone, I purchased my current s2000 a little over a year ago now. For Christmas my girlfriend got me a OEM front lip. After waiting around for 10 months I finally decided to paint it Also when I purchased the car the rear bumper was missing clear coat only on the drivers side (odd) but figured this would be a good time to repair that too!
I purchased the paint from here
What I purchased was 2 cans of base coat (sebring silver)
2 cans of primer
2 cans of clearcoat
and a sandpaper package with wet sandpaper
The front lip went really well and not difficult at all.
The rear bumper I found to be pretty tricky. I sanded everything down, primed, sanded, painted, cleared, wetsanded, and buffed.
I think it turned out very well for not doing this very often!
I have a few rust spots i'd like to tackle next I will post when I do!
All in all with the paints available at the website I linked to it saves a ton of money to do it yourself. The rust repair im more skeptical on taking on myself, but the bumpers being plastic I wasn't very worried if I would have messed up.
I purchased the paint from here
What I purchased was 2 cans of base coat (sebring silver)
2 cans of primer
2 cans of clearcoat
and a sandpaper package with wet sandpaper
The front lip went really well and not difficult at all.
The rear bumper I found to be pretty tricky. I sanded everything down, primed, sanded, painted, cleared, wetsanded, and buffed.
I think it turned out very well for not doing this very often!
I have a few rust spots i'd like to tackle next I will post when I do!
All in all with the paints available at the website I linked to it saves a ton of money to do it yourself. The rust repair im more skeptical on taking on myself, but the bumpers being plastic I wasn't very worried if I would have messed up.
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Re: DIY Paint Repair
total cost was about $80 thats for 2 cans of primer, 2 cans of base, 2 cans for clear, and a assortment of wetsand paper. http://www.automotivetouchup.com/?A=508
that got my whole front lip and the rear bumper with some left over.
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Re: DIY Paint Repair
the lip came not primed. I primed it before painting with regular primer but you are right, i should have used a adhesion primer. Its still holding up good but we will see what happens after winter... I might have to redo it.
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If the lip was pre-primer then you won't have an adhesion problem unless you didn't skuff it before you primed it. Only time I reprime parts is when it has etch primer on it (metal panel). What I do with pre primered plastic parts is scuff them then shoot the base. If it's a metal panel with that thin black primer I'll lightly skuff and surface prime or seal it with epoxy primer. Looks good!!!
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