looking at other repairs to take care of on the car, I'm looking at the front facia, but this would probably apply to the whole car as I've found a few other cracks. I was PLANNING on just replacing the whole thing, and I'm guessing that's probably what I'm going to get from this discussion, but as I mentioned there's other parts that I could try to fix.


inside view of front facia

for the facia, this is why I doubt it can be fixed, there's a couple areas where due to other damaged parts not resting where they should, it's just warped over time. If anybody does know a way to fix it let me know, but this part I THINK can be fixed:


fender crack

it would be a first time trying for me but I'll take a shot, short version I'm getting is that there's some type of epoxy to fill it in with then sand/paint. I know that sounds like basic body repair but I'm just noting that it's not generic bondo, shop manual says there should be a stamp to identify the type of plastic but I couldn't find one, so I'm trying to figure out what type of epoxy. part of it isn't painted and you can see it's yellow underneath, but there's no fibers visible like fiberglass.

any suggestions on brand/type of epoxy/resin/whatever to patch this with or tips on how to do a good job?

I'm also noting the paint job doesn't appear to have any sort of a clearcoat, I have a couple scratches and when I look really close I don't see any layers aside from paint and whatever it's attached to.

 

either plastic weld or use panel bond on the fender. someone skilled with a heat gun could probably fix the facia

 

I don't think I need to make a new thread for this since it's closely enough related to this one, but I have probably a dozen pieces that are definately broken and needing replaced like the rigid plastic wheel well shrouding and fan shroud and etc.

a quick google for OEM parts and you get a ton of sites, and when you start looking for your part you can notice the pages all appear to be sharing a few sources for databases. Aside from their homepage, their actual parts pages will be identical across multiple sites, there's like......I dunno, 3 or 4 different basic databases? The individual sites just put their own price data in there. Are any of these a decent place to get these basic body trim and plastic shroud pieces?

aside from performance parts where the brand might make a difference like a cam or something, who/where is the best place to get these plastics? I'd assume that there's not going to be a terrible difference in quality, so I guess it's about price and somewhere that doesn't actually **** up your order?