This weekend I took my car home to my parents house to do a little fixing up, I had poor roof rails, two bad struts, I felt like I wanted to something to cosmetically enhance the car, and worst of all, a super duper rusty trunk lid(see picture)

And worst of all...



So I decided to take action, I sanded everything down real nice and smooth like and then applied an anti-rust/rust stopping primer




Applied two thin sheets of tin over the worst parts of the rust on the underside of the trunk.




After that, with everything taped off, BONDO TIME!


Sanded that down nice and smooth and then applied another coat of the anti-rust primer



Sanded that down nice and smooth and then applied another coat of the anti-rust primer


...While waiting for that I tinted my turn signals as well as the rear turn signal/back up light.



Then wet sanded the coat of primer for a nice smooth finish, applied about four coats of Import Black paint from Autozone. Wet sanded that, and then applied about four coats of clear top coat. And for the finished product was extremely pleased as this was my first time ever doing body work...

 

Good job.

 

Thank you.

 

Nice job........ How much was the bottle of the antirust primer

 

Average, like 6 bucks I think. It goes on clear, which I kind of didn't like because I don't think it set as good of a base for the paint as a white primer would. But I didn't really look around, I saw "Stops rust on contact" so I grabbed it, not realizing it was a clear primer.

 

Thats the rustiest 850 I have ever seen...lol.


Glad your fixing it!


Where did you get that emblem next to the 8 on the 850?

 

Yeah, it got pretty bad, I don't know how it happened. Obviously I wasn't the one taking care of it at the time. Haha.


IPD. It's in the stickers/emblems section but it only shows up if you do an "emblem" search, otherwise, just by navigating your way to the sticker section it won't show up.

 

It isn't showing up either way.

Link please?

 

What's up with your plates? You spent so much time on your cars look and tied plates like that ? Hope it is temporary.

 

What part of Seattle are you in? And how long? Ahaha

 

Haha, I'm not in Seattle. I was just copying sleepless in Seattle.

And yes, the ties are temporary. When I took off the plates to tape it all off the bolts broke off and I didn't want to try to remove a completely rusted over license plate bracket with semi-wet paint right below it, once it fully dries I'll take care of that.

Here's the link for the Volvo Motorsports Emblem:

http://www.ipdusa.com/product.asp?st...hStartRecord=1

 

damnn man, when you aid you had some rust i would have never expected that much lol. nice work with teh bondo came out smooth. how did you get the new paint to flow so nicely with old? did you buff after sanding? cause im doin some small spots and im havin a bit of trouble gettin it to blend nicely. maybe its cause im using that tiny brush lol. nicework tho anyhow

 

haha. thank you. Just lots of sanding and wet sanding and lots of light coats of paint. Just can't rush it. It took me all afternoon and evening to do.