Bought my Z with some big fibre glass pieces missing in the bumper cause the guy who had it before me enjoyed driving backwards of high kurbs, anyway the rear right hand side sagged like hell as the mounting point had broken of and so on, heres some pics of what i found when i took the bumper of...

 

Rear right had mounting point broken off

forward right mounting point cracked and barely hanging on.

the above mounting point has a 20mm wide and 4" long piece filler missing next to the mounting point.

a crack 10mm deep and 1.5" long forward of headlight panel.

forward left mounting points was cracked and one was missing.

rear left mounting point had a crack just under the mounting point itself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After finding all that thought it was time to take it to a professional and was quoted £150 for it to be rebuilt and filled ready for spraying including strengthening at all the mounting points.

 

So i went to B&Q and bought some of their finest honeycomb steal for £13 and borrowed filler fibre glass paste and hardener of an uncle of mine and here is what turned out......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then some Filling.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After going to Chips away and being quoted £240 for a respray on my bumper and some crap about fibre glass is hard to spray and baking temps and so on i thought DIY time.

 

Now here comes the bit which i could be slightly embarrased about haha,

 

i went to halfrauds and has my paint code mixed and bought some red primer with some laquer and after some fine sanding me and my dad cracked on with the spraying.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The next day i started blending and this is what turned out......

 

 

 

 

 

then i did some reading and found people calling other people idiots for going to halfrauds and for the embarrasment inside of me it spurred me on to complete it properly so i went out and had some more paint mixed and this is the final product......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So after that i was quoted in total £390 for my bumper to be fully repaired and sprayed....

 

what i spent...

£22 on halfrauds paint

£16 on specialist paint...lol

£13 on B&Q steel

approx £6 for a jigsaw blade and some sandpaper

 

total = £57 correct me if im wrong :D

 

 

and this is for the people who are painting illiterate...like me haha..... DO NOT GO TO HALFRAUDS.....should be common sence but well live and learn.....

Edited August 12, 201015 yr by Hollings

Yep they are generally rubbish! Good job there fella.

good joob done there chap!! fibreglass can be torcher!!

Well done mate for a DIYer that looks great:thumbup1:let the paint harden for a week and give it a t cut and polish

Bloody good job mate, and a nice color too.

As said by Gary, leave it a week or 2, then i would colr sand the paint with 1000 or 1200 wet and dry, to get rid of overspray and surface film, get some compound cutting paste on a mop, then buff, it should turn out well. You might find then though you will want to mop the rest of the car. All dependant though on how many coats of paint you put on. Be careful with the edges if colour sanding.

 

Nice one!

 

Graham

Aerosol heaven!-good on yer mate!:thumbup1:

good effort mate :)

For an aerosol finish that is good matey, well done. I have witnessed so called top firms painting 300's and costing a fortune, only to turn out 100 times worse than that. Good on ya fella!!!

 

Al.

Well done. You did a great job there :clap:

cheers guys glad its done though im nearly out of hair!

Looks real nice that mate :)

You should be chuffed, taking the time and doing it yourself, looks good and saving a few pennies. its not far off on the colour side

You've done a great job with it! Even your Z looks suprised at how much you've saved :thumbup1:

 

Excellent work there. Am a big fan of doing the work on cars ursen and not just sending them to a bodyshop. what bumper is it?.

well i was oblivious to what bumper it is, the guy at Zedworld said it was a stillen, and if genuine was worth a pretty penny so i didnt want to get rid of thought it was worth the work.

Good effort mate well done!

well i was oblivious to what bumper it is, the guy at Zedworld said it was a stillen, and if genuine was worth a pretty penny so i didnt want to get rid of thought it was worth the work.

 

Nope, certainly not a Stillen bumper and doesn't look anything like one, so won't be worth a huge amount I'm afraid. It's a Carcept one that Zcentre sell.

 

Good effort on the repair.

Edited August 13, 201015 yr by FunkySi

ah see, i know nothing about the kit on it...time to do some research ;)

No need to. I can tell you what you have on yours. You've got Carcept front bumper, Wings West (Or replica) skirts and rear bumper. Mid-level rear spoiler from Zcentre.

 

Not really to my taste, but the car itself looks clean and I like the wheels. :)

lol that was easy thanks Si. not a fan of the wheels though looking for some Oz superleggeras / superturismo or somthing along those lines. a bit of topic my bad :D

lol that was easy thanks Si. not a fan of the wheels though looking for some Oz superleggeras / superturismo or somthing along those lines. a bit of topic my bad :D

 

Really? The split rims superleggeras would look nice, but the stock monoblock ones will look pretty unflattering IMO. Supertourismos will look awful IMO. They look good on little hot hatches, but on a wide Z32, they will look really out of place.

Very nice job there.

 

How much Tcut dd you get through to remove the orange peel :).

 

I've just finished a M5 replicate Fibre glass bumperfor my Beema. Did it all by spay can and hand. It's surprising how good it looks after rubbing down and tcutting.

It's surprising how good it looks after rubbing down and tcutting.

 

Make sure you wax it too!!

Great work there buddy! Amazing finish for a rattlecan job! :hyper: