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After much care for my engine and not being able to rig Gazzuzz's free paint-job promo in my favour , I decided to restore the finish or should I say respray my car.
I'm retaining the same colour. The paint job is mainly inspired by the fact that a couple areas of paint on the car have aged Don't know if that's the right word.

The car before it all started. Looks clean from here...

But...
Here's the ageing thingy I talked about. Anyone in the house, what causes this?

Day 1

Light panel beating: alignment of offset bumpers edges, a bit of hammering out of the few dents
Painter starts filling

[color=Blue]Poor quality clear lacquer. Or poorly applied. It has flaked off, leaving the 2-pack metallic paintwork exposed to the elements.[/color]

Siena:
[color=Blue]Poor quality clear lacquer. Or poorly applied. It has flaked off, leaving the 2-pack metallic paintwork exposed to the elements.[/color]

Thanks Siena. I also observed it was only present in areas where the sun would impact directly. Was thinking the hot weather had something to do with it. Thanks again.

More imperfections identified and sanded...
Never mind the funny looking tail light. The replacement has already been bought.

Lol @ rig paint job to ur favour; na naija election?

More dents filled...

DuchessLily:
Lol @ rig paint job to ur favour; na naija election?

My dear I desired it badly but due to work wouldn't have been able to visit Lagos for 7days so I passed on it.
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Day 2

The whole car was sanded in preparation for painting. Here's the now aligned bumpers

"Old man areas" rejuvenated!

More filling and sanding. All imperfections must go!

Modified.
The Accord logo has been taken off. The rest will follow soon as it gets ready to bake

Still working...
getting ready to be primed.

The front end was not left out...
I was particularly interested in sanding and filling all chips on the hood no matter how small.

Car is finally ready to be primed and that concludes day 2. So far so good. Thank you Lord!

Lol @ rig to your favor.

You should have weighed the car before and after, curious to see how many pounds of bondo you caked on.

EgunMogaji:
You should have weighed the car before and after, curious to see how many pounds of bondo you caked on.

Lol. They are actually very light. A lot if the things you see are just scratches.

Piyke:
Lol. They are actually very light. A lot if the things you see are just scratches.

Okay I guess.

It's just that over here you work out the dents, at least on metal parts, and use bondo very sparingly.

Good luck on the project.

EgunMogaji:
Okay I guess.

It's just that over here you work out the dents, at least on metal parts, and use bondo very sparingly.

Good luck on the project.

That's exactly what was done.

Thanks a lot!

Piyke:
That's exactly what was done.

You didn't show those pics. I didn't see any dent removal tools or removing of door panels, etc

If done properly one should still be able to pass a magnet over the repaired areas and it sticks.

EgunMogaji:
You didn't show those pics. I didn't see any dent removal tools or removing of door panels, etc

If done properly one should still be able to pass a magnet over the repaired areas and it sticks.

Yea. Didn't actually take the pics of the removal of the door panels. It didn't occur to me I should include it in this or should I say I wasn't sure I was going to write this up.
Both rear door panels were removed to beat out dents in the metal. The roof padding was also peeled back a little to push out a dent just above the rear right door. The inner parts of my moon roof railing made it a bit difficult pushing out the dent but the panel beater finally got it done with a curved metal bar.

Thanks again.

Piyke:
Yea. Didn't actually take the pics of the removal of the door panels. It didn't occur to me I should include it in this or should I say I wasn't sure I was going to write this up.
Both rear door panels were removed to beat out dents in the metal. The roof padding was also peeled back a little to push out a dent just above the rear right door. The inner parts of my moon roof railing made it a bit difficult pushing out the dent but the panel beater finally got it done with a curved metal bar.

Thanks again.

Excellent.

My intention here is not to brow beat you or diminish your excellent DIY project, but it's important to show the proper process to whoever wants to take on such a feat after your demonstration.

Carry go, nothing do you

EgunMogaji:
Excellent.

My intention here is not to brow beat you or diminish your excellent DIY project, but it's important to show the proper process to whoever wants to take on such a feat after your demonstration.

Carry go, nothing do you

Thanks my Oga. But this one pass my DIY power Using a painter & panel beater for this one

Resuming...

Day 3 - Priming day.

At the end of the day, all affected areas had been primed...

More...

Some more...
The primed areas were also sanded.

As I washed the car, I noted a few etches that needed sanding and concealing.
They are tiny but attention to detail is the difference between an okay job and a great one.

A few more areas needing to be touched up before painting were also identified and marked for treatment on day 4.

Day 4 - Slight touch-up, spray & bake

Taped up, matt application starts for the relevant areas

Application of base coat complete and car driven into oven booth for application of clear coat...

Its going to get hot soon.