Cracked my lip in half!
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You can easily fix that, looks like its just regular fiberglass take it to any body shop. Or fix it yourself Fiberglass is easy to work with. They sell kits at autoparts stores, in the kits they have mesh weave I suggest you buy a roll of fiberglass matting. You can probably get away without having to repaint it too.
This is what I would do
1: Take off the lip
2: Clean the lip, and by hand join the back the broken parts
3. Grap duct tape and on the painted side where the crack is tape it up make sure the duct tape is holding the sides firmly together this is important.
4. Flip the lip and you will want to work from the inside of the crack so lightly scuff up 2-3" near the perimeter of the crack.
5. mix resin, then with a paint brush wet the crack and the 3" perimeter
6. Cut with scissor tiny strips of the fiberglass matting enough to cover the and the sides. Cut about 4-5 strips
7. Working one strip at a time, lay the strip then soak each one with the resin using the brush. It is important not to leave any bubbles between layers.
8. After you have reinforced the crack and crack perimeter let the resin do its magic and harden up.
9. After a few hours of hardening check to make sure the resin is rock hard. Then you can gentle peal the duct tape.
10. For the crack you can either take it to a body shop or grab some touch up paint and touch up the crack line.
This is what I would do
1: Take off the lip
2: Clean the lip, and by hand join the back the broken parts
3. Grap duct tape and on the painted side where the crack is tape it up make sure the duct tape is holding the sides firmly together this is important.
4. Flip the lip and you will want to work from the inside of the crack so lightly scuff up 2-3" near the perimeter of the crack.
5. mix resin, then with a paint brush wet the crack and the 3" perimeter
6. Cut with scissor tiny strips of the fiberglass matting enough to cover the and the sides. Cut about 4-5 strips
7. Working one strip at a time, lay the strip then soak each one with the resin using the brush. It is important not to leave any bubbles between layers.
8. After you have reinforced the crack and crack perimeter let the resin do its magic and harden up.
9. After a few hours of hardening check to make sure the resin is rock hard. Then you can gentle peal the duct tape.
10. For the crack you can either take it to a body shop or grab some touch up paint and touch up the crack line.
I would try this.
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