Tesla owner: my handles are different and dont fit right on the side you fixed.
Me: oh wow, let me get that straightened up for you.
The handles: ummmmmmm
Putting the shop truck through the process. Rockers were falling aparr so i gyess i may as well replace the doors, fenders....windshield............paint the entire thing. Why not?
Its not like theres anything interwsting going on in the world anyway
Weve had a distempered coon around the shop, its turned into a saga.
He told me he had cheap coins behind the paint booth building but they were cooncoin not bitcoin so i told him to shove it
Fitting up the new corner and rear door.
Some gaps to adjust, but fitting well out of the box.
The layering on these makes reconstruction almost impossible to do as they built it. Have to shuffle the deck on a few layers
Ram promaster 1500, rear corner replacement. The factory layering is such that this panel is buried between numerous adjoining panels.
Makes removal slow and painstaking
Marriage pics of the new corner to come
I present to you, GM code 618G. Here we see the various chips used to direct a painter toward the best matching variant.
Why do none of the cards look like each other, or like panel you ask?
Because fuck me is why 🤣
Fun little mustang bumper two tone job.
Sometimes for the cleanest lines, you need to clear the part between colour applications and re sand. A lot more work and material, but great results!
The details matter.
These small foil strips are absent in the new rear cover - this car's blind spot monitor system uses these for strips to 'ignore' the bumper. If theyre not in place, the system might 'ignore' the car in your blindspot instead.
Never thought i would have had to know this working 20 years ago