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im getting married in ten days time. i always wanted to have my car in my wedding, and was going to until a few weeks ago. but we ran out of money.
yesterday we went through our bills, and now i have $400 to spend painting my car. im a painter/panel beater myself so no probs, just a bit of a rush, got 4 days to finish it. car was painted 12 years ago satin black, took around an hour. bodywork is very average, but im only going to give it a quick bog job and respray, only has to last a couple of years, later i can bare metal it and start from scratch. today i chased up the primer, paper and a few other bits. brother inlaw stripped the exterior parts/chrome and we got started on the rubbing back car is almost fully rubbed back tonight i will add some new pics as we go....    
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| fiftyone |
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epic mate. hope it gets done in time. good luck!
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| XRfairmont67 |
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it'll get done no probs, wont be perfect, just needs to be tidy
thursday the bog comes out.... |
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| KWIKXR |
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Best of luck with it mate, you're off to a good start. Nice looking XR by the way, should look the part at the wedding
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| jonathon |
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excellent work and congrats on the wedding..
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| XRfairmont67 |
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im hating the rubbing back, looks worse than i remember.
39 degrees yesterday and 41 today, perfect weather for it...not. bog dust sticks to u thanks for the encouragement, will keep plodding away |
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| bradley4567 |
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looks cool hope u get it done in time
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| XRfairmont67 |
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spent too much time aligning the boot and fixing where there tail lights fit today.
finished rubbing the last door and rear quarter now ground back a few areas, probably 15 patches, and bogged. rubbed some back starting to look better now, the 41 degree temp here didnt help our enthusiasm much either hopefully primer tomorrow  
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| TROYMAN |
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its getting painted (wedding) white i assume??
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| jonathon |
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the end result will be worth it..
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| XRfairmont67 |
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Nah not white troyman, eventually it will be black with a full resto
But for now i have 15 litres of PPG Mercury Silver that im not using so will use 3 or 4 litres of that not sure on how it will look yet, guess it will be different, havent seen another the same colour.... |
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| bradley4567 |
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so is 3 or 4 liters generally enough to spray a whole car???
sorry for asking stupid questions
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| XRfairmont67 |
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yeah 3 litres minimum, just need 3 good coats of colour on, then the clear same 3 coats.
im not doing the door jambs or under bonnet or boot |
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| KRUPTD |
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Great XR by the way
 If the paint is acrylic 3-4L wont be enough at all.I painted my missus bonnet on her HZ tonner in acrylic and i used almost 1.5L and can do with more...Luckily when i painted the bonnet it came off the gun very well so no buffing required,had a fair amount of shine and no peel either.. Good luck with it all hope it turns out.cheers Bryan
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| XRfairmont67 |
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thanks mate.
ive been painting for 20 odd years now paint is 2 pack so wont be a problem, the primer is very close colour to finished colour so wont take much to cover |
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