Old Jul 14, 2013 | 01:27 PM
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After I changed wheel bearing I drove a lot, sideways too, but then I decided really took those last steps on this project, paint job, oh yeah!!

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At first I made protection to parts of car that are not being painted.

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Then it was time to fix a nasty dent on rear hatch.

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There was a crack on front bumper, so I fixed with (what else can it be than...) fibre glass.

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Also the front grille, needed some fibre glass on its back.

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And this is the look of bumper right before plastic primer. See, no crack!

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Then it was time for epoxy primer layer.

I got few problems with spray gun and acryl filler, the gun itself jammed Actually I just forgot to add acryl thinner in the mixture

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So by this far boot and that enormous rear wing, had filler layer over them.

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As well as bumpers too.

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The fromt grille took lots of work, cause it did had a crappy paint by its earlier owner.

And finally, some pics of new paint, with a clear coat on it, your welcome guys:

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Up next I just need to do a little weld on front bumper mounting, put car back together and enjoy the summer again (Well maybe there are few other thing that needs to be done but...)
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