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:
Music By: Joakim Karud
Future Funk
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What kind of grit did you use to sand the lines of the masking tape?
Should have likely gone with a lighter Bondo filler instead of black, maybe even used a white primer first. Though, to be honest, it's hard to tell whether the black bondo is showing through or if the paint wasn't a close enough color match.
Not a pro but 2000g is a little coarse for a first stage color sand on that small of a spot. You could have made the spot slightly larger and blended and buffed it all.
Easter fun for the family.
I would say you done a fine job for what you had to work with.
light grey primer over before the base coats would have helped very much.
Great video. I wonder if using a tan plastic filler instead of the black filler would have helped.
If you backmasked it by folding some newspaper backwards you might have avoided that sharp paint line and made it blend a bit better to start with to make it a bit easier, still looks good especially for what you spent
needed primer but came out decent.
Nice job but for 100 bucks more you have a professionell repair and no stress 😀