Andrizzle
Dedicated LVC Member
Hey guys. 6 months ago on November 9th, 2009, I wrecked my car:
It was a long painful process of getting insurance to cooperate and also finding parts as I wanted to do the work myself. It took finding a hood about 2 months itself. I did all the repairs myself, minus the actual painting of the hood/bumper.
Just this past week I got all the hood and bumper painted (finally). It turned out to be a harder process than I thought, lining up the hood was a huuuuge pain, it seemed to never fit right, It took me alot of cutting, alot of pounding and alot of sweating to get it as close to original as I could. And let me tell you, doing this alone really sucks...
Mounting a hood by yourself is next to impossible. It took me a while to get the hood to fit down, at first it was sticking up on the left side, and I had to even up the gaps with the fenders by pushing them in etc, after a wreck, the body gets tweaked in ways it will never be the same... I got it as close as I could and I think it turned out pretty good, it feels nice to have done it myself, no one believes me when I tell them I do all the work on my car, especially after seeing it now - when I drove it around wrecked for 6 months.
Anyways enough chit chat, no one is probably reading this and they skipped to photos, so here are some progress as I did the body work:
Here are the finished results, excuse the half-assed wash job, I was rushing against daylight to take photos. And yes I know the wheels wells are filthy, I need to spend a good amount of time cleaning those suckers, they are stained red. lol
Thanks for looking. I will have better photos tomorrow probably. I need to clean it up some more (the wheels wells kill me). I am getting a paint correction session after next month, so I will take some better photos then as well.
It was a long painful process of getting insurance to cooperate and also finding parts as I wanted to do the work myself. It took finding a hood about 2 months itself. I did all the repairs myself, minus the actual painting of the hood/bumper.
Just this past week I got all the hood and bumper painted (finally). It turned out to be a harder process than I thought, lining up the hood was a huuuuge pain, it seemed to never fit right, It took me alot of cutting, alot of pounding and alot of sweating to get it as close to original as I could. And let me tell you, doing this alone really sucks...
Mounting a hood by yourself is next to impossible. It took me a while to get the hood to fit down, at first it was sticking up on the left side, and I had to even up the gaps with the fenders by pushing them in etc, after a wreck, the body gets tweaked in ways it will never be the same... I got it as close as I could and I think it turned out pretty good, it feels nice to have done it myself, no one believes me when I tell them I do all the work on my car, especially after seeing it now - when I drove it around wrecked for 6 months.
Anyways enough chit chat, no one is probably reading this and they skipped to photos, so here are some progress as I did the body work:
Here are the finished results, excuse the half-assed wash job, I was rushing against daylight to take photos. And yes I know the wheels wells are filthy, I need to spend a good amount of time cleaning those suckers, they are stained red. lol
Thanks for looking. I will have better photos tomorrow probably. I need to clean it up some more (the wheels wells kill me). I am getting a paint correction session after next month, so I will take some better photos then as well.
