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Spring touch up painting

Well spring has arrived, and in the month I have between graduation and "the real world" I will be working on my vehicle, as per usual. The last two afternoons I've spent doing touch up work and painting, etc.

First off, my bumpers, painted black 4 years ago, needed a bit of touching up. You can see from the below pictures that they had a few scratches and dings. I was going to just try to touch up those areas, but it looked too dark and shiny, so I had to mask off both bumpers and re-spray both entirely.





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The paints. Bulldog prep spray and then SEM bumper coat with flex agent.




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The finished product (it kinda looks like crap because they both got coated overnight with construction dust, but you get the idea.)




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I also needed to touch up the fading trim next to the windows. Sprayed this 4 years ago, and it was just finally starting to bleach again. Please ignore the half naked man in the window.





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Prepped by cleaning with alcohol and water, than masked it off





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The paint:




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Sprayed and finished:





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Also, I painted some of my interior fans black:




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All of these things were very easy to do if you're mildly competent and have minimal trouble painting a room - it's very simple stuff. Figured I'd share for anyone who is considering doing this. Any questions, feel free to ask.
 



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how long did u wait for that glue stuff to dry befor u applyed the trim paint. and can this method be used for the bottom gray trim on my 02 XLT? if so what other steps will need to be done
 



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i took a trip to autozone today and found these 3 cans of paint.now wich paint do we use first? i know we use the adhesive first then trim paint. but what about the bumpers? do we use the adheasive then bumperpaint? or do we have to sand the bumper beforehand.?

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How did you paint the fans?
 












did you sand the panels down all the way or just even them out? mines are bad. I got some paint but not the same kind, anything else i need to know?
 






Sorry I missed some responses on this thread.

Swoop - I just hit them very lightly. Definitely didn't sand down all the way.
 






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