Gosh I'm stupid!

[sfields]

:mad:
Last night without thinking i just started backing out of my driveway... forgot my friends black car was kinda behind me... put a nice scrape all the way from my rear bumper to most of my passenger door... some dents... paint.. nothing structural

Still pissed me off for being a dumbass.. it was a pretty noob move...

Its 9am.. and I'm gonna go put on a hoodie.. and start sanding... and bondo-ing in the dents... get some honda red spray paint and make it look decent again

I figure the spray paint will make it look better than the dents and scrapes, even if its not the same shine

[ogsmakdade]

sucks bro. a lot of us have been there.

[BB1_]

Ouch man. Sorry to hear that.

[sfields]

Well heres the damage taken the next morning... right now I got some bondo drying, its almost back to being a rear fender! =]

The Damage:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/scooterboy17/lude/scrape.jpg

Close up on the fender (the worst of it)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/scooterboy17/lude/smash.jpg

I'm lucky, it could have been a lot worse, but its enough to piss me off... my poor baby lude :pout:

[3rdGenCrazy]

that sucks man!.. make sure to keep us posted on ur progress tho!

[2.2Lude]

Yeah it could have been a lot worse but still suks.

[sfields]

Well, I got a rear fender made of bondo... and i tried to paint it and the paint totally doesnt match... and i guess i painted too fast, when i took up the tape it peeled...

Sooooooo I have three options...
1. sand it in a few days and try again
2. sand it, fix the bondo (its not perfect) and get it painted as cheap as i can
3. sand the car, paint it all one color, but doing a clear coat in my driveway will not result in a shine... so it would probably end up matte black


Whatcha think?
retry my red
get it painted red
paint it matte black

[91pinklude]

ouch.... and i was fliping out bout mine...this lady at work backed into my 3rd gen i wasnt in the car i was inside working and she like backed into it and left.... but urs is way worse i hope you fix it... :heart:

[sfields]

Heres the progress, think I got most of the dents out, and bondo'd what I couldnt get out, sanded off the paint scrapes, hopefully I can get around to repainting it soon. When its all said and done it's going to be black, tomorrow hopefully I can get a thin layer of bondo over all of the current bondo, and sand it with a real fine grit paper, get it all prepped for paint :biggrin:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v139/scooterboy17/lude/progress.jpg

[mizlude]

man that blows big nuts I hope that bondo holds because that is alot of it but its not bad work man I have to say

[sfields]

man that blows big nuts I hope that bondo holds because that is alot of it but its not bad work man I have to say

It looks like a lot, but its actually pretty thin, the thickest part is the big patch over the back wheel, had to rebuild that sweep to the fender coming out from the car.

Thanks for saying I did good work though, compliments fuel car nuts to do things better.

[thomas97]

paint is so frustrating, and i remember bondoing my dads 1958 alfa romeo, your my hero man haha

good luck!

[sfields]

Well I finally got it somewhere where I'm happy with it.. Unfortunately its just a little cold for paint now... So I took her up to maco.. :-( We'll have new pics soon!

[hojemwod]

damnn man that sux...mines goin to maaco jan 1st...how much are they charging you? they want 400 for mine (for the whole car that is)

[sfields]

yea mine is 434 after tax for the whole car... thats just integrated clear coat and black, no openings.. they told me its 100 per opening... also the guy told me it would cost me 50 to get them to take my spoiler off, but if i take it off theres no charge difference between them painting it on the car or off... luckily i brought my trusty ratchet with me!!

And I took out all the lights.. and the vents in the front, if I got them here there is zero percent chance of overspray on them, plus I make sure they get in the areas behind them so there wont be any red showing through! Hell I took everything off, antenna, lights, vents, washer nozzles, emblems, the works!

[HondaNeedsBoost]

too bad u dont have it right now...u could leave before A gets there

[hojemwod]

nice..im just gettin mine redone in white..ill take the sideskirts and stuff off...they said they will sand it, seal it, paint it...dunno about clear coat tho..ill pay extra for it i guess

[sfields]

yea, the cheapest they do usually has an integrated clear... its not the standard base/clear.... its all mixed in, theyre gonna sand mine, prime it, and put the black with clear and uv protection on