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sucks bro =/
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I feel your pain. I hit something in the road last week, thanks to VDOTs construction crews. I have no idea what it was, but it kicked up and slammed into the passenger side rocker panel. The paint was scored down to the metal and all but two locations. Luckily those two are above the rock strip, so I will be able to buff them out. I was able to use touch up paint on the rock strip area to blend it somewhat, but I still know its there and it bothers me way too much.
Hopefully yours is easy/cheap to fix. Looks like it nicked a bit of the grill as well. ![]()
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Yeah I was driving home tonight and a truck a few lanes over had some wood just fly off of it. I swerved to avoid it (great reaction with this car). I was able to dodge most of it, I think the only parts that I couldn't avoid I just ran over. But I was inspecting my car like crazy as soon as I got into my parking lot. I hate to be the guy babying my car, but she still smells new! Haha I took her on the track after a week of having her, but road debris is way scarier.
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Yikes! But then again, things do happen... Doubt the clear bra would have helped significantly. I do think it would have prevented the bumper from that crack though. Either way I think there would still be damage, then you'd have to remove the clear bra and fix it, and reapply a new bra. You saved some money
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just saw this now and man i would be seriously pissed if something like that happened on my car, i can feel the pain, hopefully the guy doesn't charge you much to fix this, i would fix it just to not see it at all and eventually forget about it and be able to live the rest of my life in peace... i'm exaggerating a bit but you know we work hard to get a nice car and then some random stuff on the road ruins the fun its depressing really..
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Alright, back in business! My uncle who's done auto body work for over 30 years helped me out!
![]() The crack on the right side is actually a good tear in the plastic all the way through. Lifting it up, we saw nothing behind it, just a hole.. so there was no cutting and resurfacing that. Using a heat gun to soften it up, we put it back into place and used crazy glue to hold it together. Once the tear was reseated, a little sanding and some Bondo putty and more sanding down. We filled in the gouge on the left as well and it looked worse for a bit until we got it sanded down and primed. After that it was some more sanding, another primer layer, more sanding, and then the red paint sprayed through a paint gun. The paint I got was pretty thick, we had to reduce it quite a bit. Since it was sanded down so fine, the paint stuck to it real nice. It doesn't even need a clear-coat layer, but we'll sand it down a little and put clear on next weekend for good measure. Some pics of the final: ![]() ![]() ![]() You can only tell because of the slight 'wave' in the light reflection off the bumper, but the color is spot on. I plan on putting the flat black vinyl over the bumper lip there anyways, so I don't mind the end result one bit! ![]()
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Very nice
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Ya on the frs i think the black strip of vinyl looks sick...wish the brz had a similar front end.
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At first I saw the little scraped plastic from the vent and was like "oh its not TOO bad, things wear over time.." scrolled down a little further and I was like DAMN!!! hahaha pretty funny actually if you think about it. Atleast you did a good job on the repair! I approve!
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superb job, back to new imo
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