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
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#pearlpaintblending #howtopaintmatch #crashed370z
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I've been having a hard time shopping for touch up paint for my black Nismo. Luckily, I remembered this video. I'm trusting your judgment again, don't let me down. lol
Hey could a guy get the red portions of the body kit on the nismo painted black? Or is it best to get a sport package 370z & add the same bodykit with the accents painted black? I would prefer black & sorry if its a dumb question lol
you should've used a lighter bondo, but none the less it looks amazing!
A white primer would have done better
Your attention to detail is excellent. The only critique would be that when initially taping off the area, the boxing off with tape on all sides caused a bit of your problem with trying to blend, causing you more work to eliminate the tape line. Taping off the light only then filling in and sanding/feathering out to existing paint and allowing some overspray to blend the new paint to the old. You actually did this as you moved the tape back a few times, but could have done it initially and achieved the same results. Excellent results and great video. Also like the car. Thanks for posting.
Primer would have removed the black bleed through
I did this with The same touchup paint on half a door panel that was dented, 2 panels bent one in and one out,back right door and fender and had paint from an orange pole, and the part of the panel behind it as well. with a lot less effort then this guy did, my wife thought I had the door and the panel replaced. you spent way top much time, and I can tell, although I can only tell staring at it, so pretty good Job. This worries me because I'm about to do my second car, hopefully It goes as well as My first one did.