Finally getting around to sorting my car paintjob...

[slaveofconvention]

I bought this car with a good bit of paintwork required - I've had it around 6 months now, give or take and I've finally built up enough favours owed by the bodyshop I used to work at, and the guys who work there, to get it all done without it costing me, well, anything heh...

Bonnet hasn't been touched yet, but tonight I got 3 doors repaired, and into primer... Hopefully tomorrow, the primer will get rubbed down nice n smooth (hence the black dustcoat) and the wings will get to the same stage the doors are at....

[Mark_Hardware]

what is that? hail damage?

[slaveofconvention]

Road stonechips which were badly repaired and then left for months in British coastal weather - lots of salt n rain...

[slaveofconvention]

And a little more progress....


You get some freaky-ass effects when you use the flash on an autofocus camera in a dust filled room....

Hoping to get the repairs & primer finished tomorrow, and paint on thursday - hopefully the car will be done by the end of the week.... Just in time for me to take it to the place I work at the weekend where it'll get coated nose to tail in mud lol

[billygoat333]

what color we painting this beast?

[slaveofconvention]

Beast? lol - hardly - 0-60 takes about 22 seconds - 1.9L diesel, non turbo...

It's going it's stock colour - I'm just putting it back to as close to new condition as I can - it's a silvery blue

You can't really see in that pic, but it's covered in stonechips which have been badly repaired so they rusted. It also had a pretty hefty dent in the drivers side rear door which is now repaired...

Couple of other pics of damage - I don't have a pic of the big dent lol

Chips on bonnet (these extend right up the whole bonnet or hood)

And a dent in the bonnet too

[billygoat333]

ahhh i see. good job on the bodywork btw. and beast still applies, there are some slow animals out there.

[slaveofconvention]

I can't take credit - the guys in the bodyshop are doing it all - not one of them has ever paid to have a computer fixed lol - this is payback time

[BerticusPryme]

I see you did the same thing I do. around jan or feb my car goes into the shop for the same thing. mine is going to be alittle more exstensive though.cant wait to see it done man.

[slaveofconvention]

More extensive? This is a full respray heh - I think every panel except one needs paint, and there's no real point doing every panel except one rear quarter :p