Wednesday 1 April 2009

I could not get used to the Spoiler at all, so I took it off! Along with the badges.
Here is a few before pictures. Hopefully you will agree the spoiler does not suit the car.



It took allot of work to get this completed,
Hopefully the next few pics will show how much I had to do.



Had to work very hard to get the spoiler off and then there was all this silicon to take off.









The rust and the holes were rather big compared to what pics make it look like.


I sanded down the boot after 2 hours of scraping away at the silicon. and then filled with filler.

Fiberglass is messy stuff but did this to every hole then sanded down again took about another 4 hours to get the boot to this stage.>>



This was the stage i got it to then lightly painted it to stop it rusting.
Went to Jamies (www.japspecperformance.com) to paint it properly two days later.




Jamie said I had done it all wrong. Well a good enough job but wrong!
I hadn't taken enough surrounding paint off and the fiberglass would break and fall into the boot leaving me with holes again.





So we popped the fiberglass out sanded a good few inch around the holes and back to bare metal.
We then hammered down the areas so we could fill them in with a good amount of filler.
Then the whole process again, of sanding, filling, smoothing,
It took all day about 7 hours of hard work.
I then got the paint from Halfords (I spent an hour there trying to colour match).
Painted the boot with a close'ish" match about 2 hours more and the job was done (ish).




The paint used on boot was not perfect white but it was ok.