I got so sick of looking at the yellow bumper, that I went to Home Depot and got a can of gray Rustoleum. Its a bad paint job but definitely an improvement from what i had before. And yes I know that the shade of the paint is lighter.

BEFORE

 

AFTER

 

Could you get me a close up pic of the ethics policy article?

 

Dude, that's hot, I would drive around with the newspapers taped on.

 

can we see some closer detail of the formerly-unpainted areas? I'm thinking of buying a wrong-color spoiler from another member and painting it (especially tricky since his is dark and mine car is a light color) but I wanted to see how it came out upon closer inspection.

 

lol, no making fun of my fish. im trying to get one in silver, i dont like gold anymore. u we're cracking on my fish werent u?

that would be pretty ghetto, that would almost bring me down to the level of some of those cars that i saw at the drift event. im talking about intercoolers held down with zip ties, carboard splashshields, water bottles instead of coolant reserviors, and rattlecan paints jobs like mine. and some acually brag about how pimp all thats stuff looks. i gotta admit though, drifting looks fun as hell. but i can only dream of a rwd conversion, lol.

 

trust me, it doesn't look good close up. i didnt have much time to work with and i did it on my driveway. later on i'll probably take it to work, sand it down better, apply more layers of paint, and maybe some clear coat. but first i gotta do my timing belt and my water pump......maybe i'll pick up a paint gun from harbor freight. but anyway, i'll try to get a close up tomorrow.

 

That's not too shabby, considering it's a rattlecan job PLUS you didn't have a lot to time to "refine" the process. I mean, at least you masked off the areas you wanted to avoid overspraying. Trust me, I've seen some ghetto-@$$ paint jobs done waaaaay worse!!

 

i would acually like to do the whole thing in black.

 

Looks quite a bit better. I had to touch up mine too recently due to the yellow disease.

 

Hmm I wonder what a coat of black and another coat of grey would look like. Might make it match better.

Looking alot better already though.

~Alex

 

mine has only a little but of yellow disease <-----

dude you use primer?...
maybe even filler primer? sorry to be the bad guy

 

Looks like a good match, but I think you should have bought a tube of bondo putty and smeared it over any yellow spots to make it as flush as possible with the remaining paint. After it dries, sand again, repeat if necessary until you have a smooth, flush surface to paint on. Then clean, prime, paint and clearcoat. I wish i had some post prep pre paint pics of my front bumper I rattlecanned, there were quite a few yellow spots I had to fill, but I did take finished pics: http://forums.maxima.org/showthread.php?t=495158

But again, it looks like you found a good match. What paint did you use? You could always just try again to get the surface as smooth as possible before you respray it. Course if you're happy with it, go with it.

 

no i didn't, but i'll probably end up doing it again. hopefully a better job.

yeah, next time i'll use some bondo. where can i get that stuff?

 

As soon as it gets warm I'm having a friend with experience in bodywork and paint respray both of my bumpers. It sucks that the materials alone are gonna run me about $300. At least he will work for beer...

 

teh auto shop. not bondo body filler. get the chip/scratch putty it's in a tube.

 

Hey not bad at all dude, nice job for a quick one!

 

Is your car leaking oil, cause in the 2nd pic of the after pics it looks like there is some car with a big oil leak !

 

Probably a front crankshaft seal leak or p/s leak...