It was a beautiful Sunday morning, headed out for breakfast in Tesco nearby my house. As usual, I'd prefer to reverse parking at the car park lot, so I can leave without worrying my car getting rear ended by others. And this beautiful Sunday morning, even I parked properly inside the box, as I leave I realized the front bumper has a huge dent to it. The frontal part was slightly bent inside. Upon detail inspection, there was bracks on the grill as well.
Not only the bottom part, the top part as well. As we all know, this kind of Polyurethane material has high elasticity and tensile strength, but once it has a crack, that become a fatigue and will spread across until it was totally cracked.
Even before this incident, the grill paint was faded anyway, so I decided this must be an excuse for me to take the grill off, give it some repair and possibly a new paint so the car doesn't look so horrible.
As I started cleaning the grill inside out, I also noticed the badge holder has many serious crack marks during the impact. I mean, come on man. My car was parked there and someone could crash into it just like that. Is my car really that small until you don't see a car parked there and you had to reverse into my bonnet?
Without further ado, let's glue those cracks with 3 second super glue. This type of glue are chloroform. Very bad for health despite they claimed they're not. It is highly recommended to wear glove and mask, keep some distance to avoid inhaling these toxic fume emitted from the glue itself.
Once all the patching work done, time to put on masking tape to cover up the black color bee pollen grill area. I picked up some basic spray painting knowledge many years ago. One gotta realized that, the skill to paint is only like 20% of the job, other than that, the preparation work does 80% of the after effect! So, yeah! Need to outline with an extra layer of masking tape before start covering up with newspaper.
Then the newspaper to cover up the already outlined masking tape.
As I begin, once I pressed on the silver spray, there's nothing came up. There's not even gas in it anymore. So I put the silver spray can aside. Then I took out a can of high gloss black paint I used it to restored my Semi Hollow Jazz guitar 2 years ago. As I shake it, yeah there's balance in the can. So I started spray painting the grill. After I sprayed a few lines, and the bugger ran off!!! OMG! The prep work has done, all the foundation work has been laid, and now ran out of paint!
Let's cut the long story short, in the end I didn't manage to buy back a can of high gloss paint. I had to settle with high heat resistance paint. But somehow, the result is quite stunning with these matte black! It looks a lot like Batman don't you think?
There's still a small bent on the bumper and the headlamp was a little off. Atleast the grill is now glued aqnd properly installed back into where it supposed to be. The rest, we will find another excuse to work on it later. Thank you for reading and I hope within very short period of time I will make another blog entry about restoring headlamps. Since the headlamp is still considerably bright for now, hence I have no itention to restore it just yet. I don't wanna make 1 small mistake and spoil the whole headlamp. Despite it's not expansive, but no point wasting money from stupid mistakes.
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