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    Passenger Side Front Arch Before:



    Passenger Side Front Arch After:



    VR6 Front Lip Before:



    VR6 Front Lip After:


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    Rear Bar Skirt Before:



    Rear Bar Skirt After:



    My GL kitted VR6



    Some nasties I found after taking off the passenger side skirt:


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    Dude. That looks fantastic! Congrats on such a powerful shift in car condition hahah. I'm glad to help, I only knew what I told you from what I've learnt on here man, so it's a proven cycle of wonderful information

    Did you prep the bumpers first, or did you just clean and spray right on?
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    Huge improvement there mate. Makes such a difference cleaning and painting up the skirts hey

    Look forward to seeing the car soon

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mrk_Mickey View Post
    Dude. That looks fantastic! Congrats on such a powerful shift in car condition hahah. I'm glad to help, I only knew what I told you from what I've learnt on here man, so it's a proven cycle of wonderful information

    Did you prep the bumpers first, or did you just clean and spray right on?
    Cheers Mickey, I am happy with the results

    Nah no prep at all. I cleaned them down with some water first and then a cloth and some orange oil. Left them outside under the verandah and gave them roughly about 5 - 6 very light coats through out the course of the day

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lorenz View Post
    Huge improvement there mate. Makes such a difference cleaning and painting up the skirts hey

    Look forward to seeing the car soon
    Thanks James, yeah it makes a huge difference. I'll need to ask your advice shortly when I get my foglights on the car.

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    Quote Originally Posted by V®6 View Post
    Thanks James, yeah it makes a huge difference. I'll need to ask your advice shortly when I get my foglights on the car.
    Careful, he hates his name....

    It's good to hear you did light coats mate. Light coats works best for the finish.

    I should really do this to my car....although i wanna get behind all my trim and polish the paint so you can't see brown layers of gunk around my bumper edges! *shakes fist*
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    Nice work mate, I did a similar thing with VHT hood and bumper paint, was a pain in the a$$ with all the masking etc but came out great much like yours. Takes a while to do but worth the effort IMO. Wash n go with that stuff on, no more armor-alling woot!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Pullstarter View Post
    Nice work mate, I did a similar thing with VHT hood and bumper paint, was a pain in the a$$ with all the masking etc but came out great much like yours. Takes a while to do but worth the effort IMO. Wash n go with that stuff on, no more armor-alling woot!
    Cheers Pullstarter, yeah I wanted to paint them purely for the fact of avoiding having to re-apply bumper colour or shoe polish etc.

    I want to take off the front bumper bar, the rear bumper bar and the VR6 trims on the doors next and paint them up too. Any one have any tips on getting these off the car??

    Also does anyone know a good way to get sikaflex off the car at all? I want to take off the passenger side rear arch and paint that also.

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    About the only way I know of to get Sika off is VERY carefully with a razor blade, not a great method I know

    Front and rear bumpers aren't too hard to get off, just a matter of unbolting and sliding off pretty much.
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