Been a while since i put up photo's, so here she is in her current state.
Needless to say i feel sick everytime i look at it due to the colour match of the colour coding.
However it has been 3 or 4 weeks since i polished and waxed the car with megs 3 stage and i still get a decent shine after i wash it:
This pic shows paint swabs(sp) i did from 2 paint suppliers, i stupidly didnt do this before i painted them.
On the left is the "diablo red" i bought from a supplier in derry. I painted everything that colour, fitted them to the car and nearly cried. The next day i went to "o'niells distributors" in Omagh and got a litre of paint from him. His diablo red is shown on the right against my car. As you can see its much better, not perfect, but better. It was also a tiny bit more expensive than the first stuff. I have since painted the back bumper in this colour and i;m ok with it, so ill go ahead and do the front bumper/skirts/rubbing strips/handles/mirrors once i get time.
And i give the engine a wee clean too:
even though it has 113k on it it was nearly this clean when i started! and the previous owners say they've never cleaned it. so i dont understand that.
Next thing is to collect my hdi rims from the sandblasters tomorrow and get them sorted, then repaint the bumpers, then maybe loose the single wiper, then maybe take out the black bumper grill and replace with black mesh... though thats just a thought. I'm also taken by this idea of wet sanding as the car has quite a few stone chips.
@admin, i tried adding some of these pics to my garage but i got some "forbidden error giberish page"
Needless to say i feel sick everytime i look at it due to the colour match of the colour coding.
However it has been 3 or 4 weeks since i polished and waxed the car with megs 3 stage and i still get a decent shine after i wash it:
This pic shows paint swabs(sp) i did from 2 paint suppliers, i stupidly didnt do this before i painted them.
On the left is the "diablo red" i bought from a supplier in derry. I painted everything that colour, fitted them to the car and nearly cried. The next day i went to "o'niells distributors" in Omagh and got a litre of paint from him. His diablo red is shown on the right against my car. As you can see its much better, not perfect, but better. It was also a tiny bit more expensive than the first stuff. I have since painted the back bumper in this colour and i;m ok with it, so ill go ahead and do the front bumper/skirts/rubbing strips/handles/mirrors once i get time.
And i give the engine a wee clean too:
even though it has 113k on it it was nearly this clean when i started! and the previous owners say they've never cleaned it. so i dont understand that.
Next thing is to collect my hdi rims from the sandblasters tomorrow and get them sorted, then repaint the bumpers, then maybe loose the single wiper, then maybe take out the black bumper grill and replace with black mesh... though thats just a thought. I'm also taken by this idea of wet sanding as the car has quite a few stone chips.
@admin, i tried adding some of these pics to my garage but i got some "forbidden error giberish page"
Ill get up a pic of them soon, in their sandblasted state.
