The Blue Unicorn: RSP Rescue
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Update:
More finishing touches to the money-sucker:
Bought and installed 4 new tires in stock size. $280 Black Friday special (Amazon brand). Ride quite well actually:
Performed a 4 alignment. Everything was so off. The car was eating tires badly:
Ended up not being able to finish the Camber due to other technicians needing to use the rack so took it to an alignment shop the next day for $65 to finish the camber (not pictured).
Bumped into a support column at work. A little hot water, a plastic welder, bondo, and color-coded spray paint did the best it could to make it look better. The bumper has many other imperfections and needs to be redone at some point.
Before:
After:
B-pillars had a lot of wear & tear on them so had them repainted. They turned out very glossy so I had the new paint wetsanded & lightly buffed to give them that OEM finish:
Before:
After:
The top of the drivers door also started to peel so I spent a lot of time with color-matched paint and 2k clear coat fixing it.
Before:
After:
Sourced a pair of clean 97+ Headlights from SC Warehouse in North Carolina. Wetsanded and applied 3 coats of 2k clearcoat. Also wetsanded and re-clear coated the Fog Lamps in the bumper:
Cleaned seals and used 3m Double sided tape to get them back on:
How it currently sits:
Been driving it a lot and putting off listing it for sale longer than I should be, so it’s now due for another clay bar and ceramic waxing.
More finishing touches to the money-sucker:
Bought and installed 4 new tires in stock size. $280 Black Friday special (Amazon brand). Ride quite well actually:
Performed a 4 alignment. Everything was so off. The car was eating tires badly:
Ended up not being able to finish the Camber due to other technicians needing to use the rack so took it to an alignment shop the next day for $65 to finish the camber (not pictured).
Bumped into a support column at work. A little hot water, a plastic welder, bondo, and color-coded spray paint did the best it could to make it look better. The bumper has many other imperfections and needs to be redone at some point.
Before:
After:
B-pillars had a lot of wear & tear on them so had them repainted. They turned out very glossy so I had the new paint wetsanded & lightly buffed to give them that OEM finish:
Before:
After:
The top of the drivers door also started to peel so I spent a lot of time with color-matched paint and 2k clear coat fixing it.
Before:
After:
Sourced a pair of clean 97+ Headlights from SC Warehouse in North Carolina. Wetsanded and applied 3 coats of 2k clearcoat. Also wetsanded and re-clear coated the Fog Lamps in the bumper:
Cleaned seals and used 3m Double sided tape to get them back on:
How it currently sits:
Been driving it a lot and putting off listing it for sale longer than I should be, so it’s now due for another clay bar and ceramic waxing.
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