first attempt
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first attempt
I have the old front bumper of the car (someguy backed into me couple years ago and the dealership let us keep the damaged bumper), and its been used as a decorative item above my "bar" in my apt. It needs something new so i've decided i'm gonna try my skills with plasti-dip tomorrow.
soon as i'm done, i'll have the pictures up
soon as i'm done, i'll have the pictures up
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Good luck - looking forward to seeing what you've done.
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Alright, here are the pics. I'm gonna redo it though because I didn't remove the tape quick enough and as you can see, the plasti-dip peeled funny. But now I know what to do for next time. Oh, and you can easily see where the guy backed into me, and sorry for the "eh" quality of the pics.
Last edited by rnb07; Jun 2, 2011 at 06:10 PM.
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Haha yea I was trying out those areas. I saw it in another forum about quick and easy mods, thought I'd give it a shot. I think Quik01 had it done to his yellow coupe. I peeled it all off cause the first attempt went awful, tried again but something is missing, like the rest of the car haha
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full marks for effort. the best part is you can keep trying until you get it right, then do it on your car. Keep at it, you'll get the look you want. you may want to get som fine pin stripe tape (I think that's what its called) to round out your edges better around the air intakes.
good job on the diy
good job on the diy
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full marks for effort. the best part is you can keep trying until you get it right, then do it on your car. Keep at it, you'll get the look you want. you may want to get som fine pin stripe tape (I think that's what its called) to round out your edges better around the air
good job on the diy
good job on the diy
Thanks, that would help out quite a bit. Trying to round it all out was probably the toughest part. I've redone it several times already and it's getting better.
