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metal repair of hood, question for those who know about bodywork |
914 RZ-1 |
May 17 2017, 10:15 AM
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Porsche Padawan Group: Members Posts: 683 Joined: 17-December 14 From: Santa Clarita, CA Member No.: 18,230 Region Association: Southern California |
I was using a DA sander on my hood. Lots of layers! Wondering if anyone can tell me if the hood was repaired correctly. It looks pretty good, but I'm wondering what the green area in the photo is? Bondo? Primer? Another color hood? There is also what appears to be filled cracks at lower right. I'm wondering if these are dents/creases that were repaired and bondo'd over.
I'd like to paint the car and want to make sure the paint will look good; the paint over the area over the cracks was a little cracked, which is why I sanded it down. BTW, the car was originally silver and is currently white. |
Olympic 914 |
May 17 2017, 11:28 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,677 Joined: 7-July 11 From: Pittsburgh PA Member No.: 13,287 Region Association: North East States |
That green spot looks like tiger hair or some other brand of fiber filler.
I just stripped my hood all the way down yesterday. It took a long time. When you are sanding off the old paint and filler be sure to move around the panel a lot, it is real easy to get it too hot and possibly add warping to the hood. You will know when you look at the underside of the hood and see spots where the paint burned from getting the metal too hot. My hood had a nice shape to it but I uncovered a lot of work to get it that way. It was painted with acrylic lacquer many years ago that is why I stripped it. I didn't was to shoot new paint over an unknown base. |
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