Today I attempt to fix the front Bumper on my Nismo 370Z! A few months ago I scraped a brick wall and put a big gash in the corner of the front bumper. A professional repair will cost around $300 and nearly the entire bumper will get painted. After crashing my Nissan 370Z Nismo into a brick wall at well over a half of a mile an hour, I re-paint part of the front bumper to seamlessly fix the damage!
I spent about $60 on paint, airbrush and materials and spent 1 entire day working on it myself!
Overall it came out really good. There is a small shadow of the new paint you can see above where the actual damage was. So I will end up taping off the front of the lip to cover where the damage was, and sand down that discoloration and re clear it.
It’s about 80% perfect looking and normal lookers probably won’t notice anything. But I’ll be able to touch up the discoloration because that is new paint on top of undamaged paint. I just didn’t sand it enough.
But it definitely looks great, the bumper has the same contour, pearl effect, and looks very good!
At this point I would have what looks like a small shadow on the corner then run the risk of seeing the entire bumper a hint more Yellow, Blue or White than the hood and fender.
Time to mod the car!!
Paint I used:
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Pretty good overall. I can't believe you were able to buff it the same day. My understanding is the color will never match perfectly so you paint a larger section than the original part. Each new coat you put on you spray a larger section. This essentially blends the new paint into the old paint without any hard line color transitions. You do the same with the clear. But seriously overall it looks good. It takes a good eye to see that spot if you didn't know it was there.
Cannot find the air brush kit on amazon.Could you post a link.Another question,does it have 0.5mm nozzle or this is not important for such small job ? I read that it is important to use specific nozzle diameter for primer and pant and clear coat.
Should have primed the bondo area before painting would have eliminated the dark coloration
Would the Nissan dealership do this for you also?
You should have used a primer under the paint. A good white primer would have stopped the bleed through of the black bondo.
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hey buddy you should put more paint layers that's why looks dark
Hey bro I can't find that little air compressor on Amazon
Good job kid, keep up the great work
I just bought my 2012 370z, any suggestions for catback?