scouk Posted June 21, 2008 Posted June 21, 2008 (edited) Well after just over a month, Some fibreglass compund, a litre of paint from Halfords, 3 tins of primer, 2 tins of laquer, a fair bit of wetsanding and a rubber mallet to take most of the dent out of the bonnet, it's back together! And looking better than ever! (just) Still need to wait a week or so before waxing/sealing the painted bits... Re-attachments: Front Splitter, Sti Headlights, Vent grill inserts, Mesh Fog light covers New bits: Carbon fibre (lookalike) side wing reflectors, STi Scoop and new sunstrip From this: To this: And now this: OOh! Reflection! - And that's before a detailing session in a couple of weeks! Extra couple of sticker at the bootom left of the rear window.. As a reminder.. Later found out the deer was with child so that's x2 "Nearly" grounded the spltter on the way off the beach! Edited June 21, 2008 by ScoUK
sczscoob Posted June 21, 2008 Posted June 21, 2008 Jeez Al, You've got some shine on it there! Looking good mate
frank c Posted June 21, 2008 Posted June 21, 2008 Looking good Al... Nice and subtle but not ott Oh and shiny as.............
thewelsho Posted June 21, 2008 Posted June 21, 2008 Looking good Al... Nice and subtle but not ott Oh and shiny as............. Looking well-cool and shiney. LOVING the deer kill decals - excellent! Car would really benefit with the addition of some nice after-market rims though
micra_wrc Posted June 21, 2008 Posted June 21, 2008 looking good Al, like the fog lamp covers. Q - do the side wing reflectors do anything? i mean arent they meant to flash when you indicate? and lol at the deer decals, fingers crossed they stay at 2
scouk Posted June 21, 2008 Author Posted June 21, 2008 Thanks for the comments! Car would really benefit with the addition of some nice after-market rims though Yeah... Keep getting told that from various people.... Quite keen on a set of 18" silver Oz Superlegerra's... Maybe next year... Q - do the side wing reflectors do anything? i mean arent they meant to flash when you indicate? On US car's they are proper indicators, but for the UK they are just reflectors... All I've done here is put some carbon fibre looking vinyl over the existing ones. Looks good enough to fool most folks Did the same for the B-Pillar a few months back... fingers crossed they stay at 2 laugh.gif Agreed....
seafar99 Posted June 21, 2008 Posted June 21, 2008 You've got that looking spot on. Very,very tidy indeed.
Frank_STI Posted June 21, 2008 Posted June 21, 2008 Looks cracking mate, the splitter makes all the difference!
oxbig1 Posted June 21, 2008 Posted June 21, 2008 that looks alot better now. did u fix the light ur sell or did u find a new set. like a needle in a hay stack
scouk Posted June 21, 2008 Author Posted June 21, 2008 that looks alot better now. did u fix the light ur sell or did u find a new set. like a needle in a hay stack Nope they were repaired... Using superglue and fibreglass to re-enforce! No really! Thankfully the lens and innards were intact.. But the bracket was shattered into loads of bits.. managed to find most of them lying in the undertray under the engine so played jigsaws one evening stuckign it back together with superglue to get the shape then re-enforced it with fibreglass then re-painted it black to more or less make it look normal.. But really it does look a mess if you take the grill off, thankfully no one sees it! I've got a couple photos of it on my phone which I'll try dig out at somepoint.. Oh for anyone interested... I've been repairing a few stone chips on the car recently and today... And this time remembered to take some before/after photos... I've posted the results in the car care forum
thewelsho Posted June 21, 2008 Posted June 21, 2008 ...managed to find most of them lying in the undertray under the engine so played jigsaws one evening stuckign it back together with superglue to get the shape then re-enforced it with fibreglass then re-painted it black to more or less make it look normal.. Very clever and supremely patient
buffalo Posted June 22, 2008 Posted June 22, 2008 that some dark humour with the deer, like it though, looks smart
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