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screw the lid ill take the diff :p

Well, after a very very tiring day its ready for the booth (just in time, considering its booked for tomorrow). Only day in the last month its rained, and it rained today, got quite wet finishing off preparation work. Anyway, pics of the new paint job to come tomorrow afternoon.

mate....if he were a millionare, he'd have a ferrari. haha

His car obviously has a higher priority than anything else he owns.

can't wait to see the new paint!

Well, today was just freakin disastrous. The paint went on well, and so did all the poo poo out of the piece of crap booth we hired. $450 worth of booth fees, $150 worth of towing fees, $350 worth of paint, $200 worth of materials and hours and hours and hours of my labour later and the car looks no freakin better (infact more then likely worse) then where I started.

I've about had enough. All the guy who owned the booth had to say about the piece of crap was basically "poo poo happens". For comparison sake, we did the underside of the bonnet and the frunk under my house, and got LESS poo poo in the paint. FAR less.

To make matters worse, 1km from home it started to rain, so the paint job will probably end up with some light water marking. And one of the side mirrors is going to have to be redone as it rolled over in the boot of my car and got covered in blanket fluff.

I'm about ready to burn the whole freakin car. I don't even know what im going to do with the paint yet. Most of the poo poo might rub out. Or we may need to rub the clear back a decent amount, and lay another coat over. I don't know, and right now, I don't want to think about it. Last two days I've been flat stick.

Anyway, pictures don't make it look too bad. In decent natural light, its quite nightmarish, at least by my standards. A decent amount of the stuff in the last picture is just poo poo off the chamois on the surface, there is however a decent amount of poo poo actually in the paint.

Yeah, im pretty destroyed at this point. I'm going to leave the car be for the next week or so, then access the situation when I dont feel like rolling it off a cliff face. There is going to be alot of work ahead. I might grab some 1500 grit next weekend and try rub out some of the gunk. Issue is, its all over the shop. If it was only 5, 10, 15 specks, sure. However, there are literall hundreds of specs about the car. I hired a freakin booth so this wouldn't be an issue - alas - it was poo poohouse, and the owner didn't seem to care in the slightest.

Well its 2am, I woke up, now can't go back to sleep. This tends to happen when horror things go wrong with my car, seeing as its my pride n' joy. freak sake, I want some sleep.

Still alot more time and effort required now. Its not so much the money, money comes and go. Its getting time around a full time job to do this stuff.

Ah well, I'll give it a cut back (and a rub in areas with some 1500grit) and then polish it up sometime this week or next weekend. If that doesn't go well, I have basically an entire week off in a fortnight, and can concentrate my efforts in that week on reprepping it for another layer of paint. Safe enough to say, we wont be using that booth again. My mate still has good ties with the old spray shop he worked at so he should be able to organise use of a booth on saturday there, I just have to get the car to the northside. I don't really want to harrass my painter mate too much more, as he is doing all this work for me FOC. I'll see what he says, he wasn't happy with the job and said he couldn't leave it like that, but quite frankly, its not his fault that the booth wasn't properly maintained.

If anyone knows anyone with a car trailer I could make use of one weekend that'd be great. Otherwise I may just have to hire one.

PS Kraze. I spotted you on Granard road on monday. I was in my corolla coming outta bunnings.