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finished smoothing my rear bumper! dunno wether to stick with a standard tailgate or a smoothed one what do you think?:thumb:
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p130/Pillar_photos/P2140168.jpg
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p130/Pillar_photos/P2140167.jpg
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Standard...
1) You don't have to start drilling holes in the bumper for the plate
2) They look better standard IMO
Bumper looks a nice job.
Lol at the writing on the boot.
H15 NVA
15-02-07, 03:40 PM
std boot, i feel the bip for plate recess helps look of arches from rear
performance*nova
15-02-07, 04:08 PM
nice job mate how long did it take you
not long mate bout 3 hours in total i think? ive been doing it on and off.
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p130/Pillar_photos/P2130165.jpg
http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p130/Pillar_photos/P2070153.jpg
andy_017
15-02-07, 04:38 PM
looks top mate:thumb:
how about removing the grab handle and leaving the recess in, seen a couple of novas with this done and it looks quite good!
nah to big of a recess, ive got a mk1 tailgate im thinkin about using now
craig green
15-02-07, 05:28 PM
Thought you would have gone to the extra trouble of smoothing out the tow eye recess too.
Should be nice when painted.
nah tooooooooo much hassle ive just ordered the paint (glacier white)so in a rush trying to get it all together its been sat in my garage for a year just want it done! ill probly put a number plate recess in it in the future as ive decided on going for the smooth bootlid
What did you use to fill in the stripe recess on the bumper?
A lot of filler? or fibreglass?
Sanded it harshly with 80 grit to give it grip, skimmed with fibreglass resin after masking around cos fibreglass is a bitch to sand. once it was filled it only needed 2 skims of filler to shape also finshed with 80 grit. i then used 1k acrylic putty all over to get rid of all scratches and smoothes the bumper to.
Nice, looks smooth as fooook.
yeah its done ok quite chuffed, i can be a bit leaniant with it going white after all it hides loads!
looks tops and I say go for the smoothed tailgate, looks great on novas I think... try getting the plate press out something like a 106 rearbumper and then sticking it into that one?? would probably be the easyest option???
bigbened
17-02-07, 10:50 PM
fook me mate do you want to do mine
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