R1PPU
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Hi there, been a member of teh forum for a while not really posted much though. Here's my build up 
Well i bought the car last june off my brothers freind, this was how it looked as soon as we got it home
Only thing that was wrong with it was that the front lip was cracked and a little ding in the back bumper. Here's the crack in the lip
Now me having no money and having a bit of free time, i thought i'd fix it myself. Went pretty well i think
Crack sanded down and glued together.
Then i sanded the whole thing, thought i'd just repaint it to save me the bother of colour matching. Here's what it looked like once i'd test fitted it.
And painted:
Smooooooooooooooth
Painted the rear recess too, looks sooooo much better.
Then i passed my test on tuesday the 21st of november :headbang: Got the tax and everything sorted out by the thursday and drove it happilly...for 3 days. That sunday was the day the snow started :-x
Ah well, front lip came off so as not to wreck it in the shitty weather, and my car got filthy from being driven in the snow haha. Also got my private plate put onto the car, my names Rippu btw
Wheels could do with a wash i think....
Then on hogmany, some ****er hit my car
Left it parked outside my mates house, came back in the morning to see this, fantastic. No note was left. They scraped the door and bumpstrip, and completely ****ed up the mirror.
And while that had happened, i realised someone had stood on the lip where it was being kept in my shed, and taken a big chunk out of it :sad:
The crack had split again too
So i got back to the sanding, and plastic welded that section back in using plastic weld. Then fiberglassed the back again and filled the front again
Filler sanded down
Primed
Then it started raining, so i went into my indoor spray booth *cough* shed *cough*
Door fixed and resprayed, and here's a pic of how it stands now
Let me know what you think
Well i bought the car last june off my brothers freind, this was how it looked as soon as we got it home
Only thing that was wrong with it was that the front lip was cracked and a little ding in the back bumper. Here's the crack in the lip
Now me having no money and having a bit of free time, i thought i'd fix it myself. Went pretty well i think
Crack sanded down and glued together.
Then i sanded the whole thing, thought i'd just repaint it to save me the bother of colour matching. Here's what it looked like once i'd test fitted it.
And painted:
Smooooooooooooooth
Painted the rear recess too, looks sooooo much better.
Then i passed my test on tuesday the 21st of november :headbang: Got the tax and everything sorted out by the thursday and drove it happilly...for 3 days. That sunday was the day the snow started :-x
Ah well, front lip came off so as not to wreck it in the shitty weather, and my car got filthy from being driven in the snow haha. Also got my private plate put onto the car, my names Rippu btw
Wheels could do with a wash i think....
Then on hogmany, some ****er hit my car
Left it parked outside my mates house, came back in the morning to see this, fantastic. No note was left. They scraped the door and bumpstrip, and completely ****ed up the mirror.
And while that had happened, i realised someone had stood on the lip where it was being kept in my shed, and taken a big chunk out of it :sad:
The crack had split again too
So i got back to the sanding, and plastic welded that section back in using plastic weld. Then fiberglassed the back again and filled the front again
Filler sanded down
Primed
Then it started raining, so i went into my indoor spray booth *cough* shed *cough*
Door fixed and resprayed, and here's a pic of how it stands now
Let me know what you think
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