As long you get it sorted for the 25th!!!!!!!!!!!!
I'll be in my box before I see the bloody thing finished!
It should be good to go by then mate, not much else to do as far as putting it together. Upgrades will always continue coming though.
This weekend has been a very productive one, here are some more photos of the respray progress with some commentary here and there.
Bumpers have been split and sanding begins:
After that is done, there is a stage of wet and dry sandpaper too and then de-greaser before applying primer:
Remember this is just primer base coat, no paint yet (even though it already looks black
). It's actually a really good quality dark grey-ish primer that is normally used for luxury vehicles with thick paint but I haggled my way to getting it on my car too
For the paint, we went with a full OEM colour respray. That said when looking at the paint properties I noticed it has a very tiny amount of Blue Pearl in it (something you only really notice in direct sunlight or when shining a torch on it). I really like that effect and wanted more so we changed it from 1.9grams of it per 100g, to 6 grams instead. Again, not noticeable to the naked eye or out of sunlight, but now when it's there it will be a lot more apparent as you will see in later photos. Here is the paint mixed up:
First coat of paint:
At this point I let them finish up with clear coat and got working on sanding down the car and treating the rust spots I initially tried to DIY around the arches:
Few spots needed some filler to get perfect:
Meanwhile I took my time to fully disassemble the mirrors as for some reason the Honda engineers decided to make it impossible to remove the plastic mirror cover without literally de-pinning the main connector to get the cable out...
The car was then masked off and prepared for Primer. It is only really necessary in areas where there is bare metal but we did a bit around those areas too as it does encapsulate it pretty well.
And this is what the primer looks like after it dries out:
So all of the above was done on the Saturday. Coming in on Sunday morning the bottom side of the bonnet was dry and ready for inspection, and oh man that Blue Pearl under light is even more vivid now!
Can't wait to see it in direct sunlight.
We then continued with getting the rest of the car prepped up:
Then it was finally ready to go in for masking and paint!
Here is first coat of paint:
And here is first clear coat:
Unfortunately this is all I have for now as I had to leave before the 2nd coat was on, and was later informed that some tiny imperfections occured so they are re-doing those as well. I will get to see it all done and dry tomorrow evening along with the rest of the plastics (spoiler, tailgate, mirror caps) for final inspection.
The car will then be driven back to mine with the plastics transported via another car to avoid scratches. It will then be all re-fit back in my garage as there are other small bits I am doing before putting the bumpers back on.
I will update you with more tomorrow, thanks for reading so far
