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Old 09-04-2012, 01:43 PM
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Well most of you know of my freak accident that cracked the supports at the top of the bumper. Started to repair that as of this past weekend. Got it to primer stage next weekend we will be doing the glazing putty filler to get the little imperfections out. Then I wait until I can get into a real paint booth to shoot the blue and clear coat.

The initial repair and bondo
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On the car for the time being

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Old 09-04-2012, 03:20 PM
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Looking good
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Update of this weekends progress. Got it all primed out. Primed the hood and the entire bumper now. This week once my eye lids arrive from NIA it will be in the booth getting fully painted. I can't wait to get things fixed and little stupid stuff looking nice again. The woes of a daily driver

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Amazing buddy...Keep up the hard work!!
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I wish I would of taken before shots of how off the lip kit was before we molded it to the bumper.
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Coming together nicely.
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The car should hopefully be in paint by this week sometime
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If you're going to leave the vents open I suggest that you shave those "tabs" off before paint. I did that and it looks much cleaner. If you ever want to re-install the oem covers you could always glue them in.

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No I will be putting vents back in for sure. Might end up selling the car once I get this all said and done and getting a yota truck of some sort.
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