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Nothing Exciting Here
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:48 AM
A while ago I said I was going to get some shots of my new front bumper up.. I forget why, and who would care, but whatever, here's a shot of the new front bumper.



The old one is in my signature

And since I'm here, there's a dent that appeared on my car a while ago, and I'm pissed because it looks like it's in a hard to fix spot. I know you can't give me exact prices or anything, but what do you guys THINK fixing this small @!#$ would cost?




Now I got myself some cool clear HVAC knobs. Ooh yeah...



And my beautiful muffler, which needs some serious replacing.. I'm actually rusting through it...




And yay for boredom.




Re: Nothing Exciting Here
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:20 AM
Nice man. Your car is looking real clean. That dent is going to be expensive since its on the quarter panel. Thats one of the biggest places on the car and the whole panel will have to be repainted to fix it.



Re: Nothing Exciting Here
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:45 AM
Ugh, I knew it was going to be expensive, I was just hoping to hell that it wouldn't be. How expensive are we talking?

It's almost to the point where this car has a bunch of small things about it that I just don't want to deal with so I was going to just buy a newer one and be done with this one.

Edit: I mean, it's not even that bad. It's just a few small things here and there that as an owner nag at you, ya know? From an outside viewer the car looks great, I just KNOW that there's small areas with tiny scratches, etc. that get to me.

Also, that dent happened while parked at my girlfriends apartment in the middle of the day. It's not a dent like somebody backed into it, it had to have been a rock, or a bat or something.

It's just frustrating when you're trying to keep your stuff clean, and people go out of their way to @!#$ your stuff up. Ugh.


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Re: Nothing Exciting Here
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:58 AM
Just go see a dent guy, he'll pop it out for under $100... It will be scuffed but a bit of polish and it will fade a little.



" To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous. "
Re: Nothing Exciting Here
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:23 AM
Dave Dunsmoor wrote:Just go see a dent guy, he'll pop it out for under $100... It will be scuffed but a bit of polish and it will fade a little.

Thats a good alternative, but you will still see some imperfections.

Around here, to repaint that it would be about $200 +/-



Re: Nothing Exciting Here
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:37 AM
please tell me you did not actually BUY the clear knobs....



Rollin' on question marks since 07.
Re: Nothing Exciting Here
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:50 AM
Eternal wrote:
Dave Dunsmoor wrote:Just go see a dent guy, he'll pop it out for under $100... It will be scuffed but a bit of polish and it will fade a little.

Thats a good alternative, but you will still see some imperfections.

Around here, to repaint that it would be about $200 +/-


I just want it to look like it wasn't there... If it costs around $200 to pop it out and get it repainted, that's a bit lower than what I was worried.. so I'll take it

z yaaaa wrote:
please tell me you did not actually BUY the clear knobs....


Haha, no. I've still got the plastic coverings in my door.



Re: Nothing Exciting Here
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:25 PM
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Haha, no. I've still got the plastic coverings in my door.


Please put them back on...lol

Other than that it looks good...



Re: Nothing Exciting Here
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:37 PM
that dent should be able to be reached from inside the trunk. to fix professionally they will have to get the metal close to flat again. use some body filler then paint and blend the quarter, the c-pillar, and the trunk lid. i would guess around 400-500 dollars. but yeah a dent guy can get that to be a "hidden" imperfection.

you have a nice car. you cant let little things about your car make you hate it, everyone has them. if you get something else it will be the same thing with that. if its something that really bothers you fix those little things one by one.




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Re: Nothing Exciting Here
Thursday, April 17, 2008 6:41 AM
ahfunaki wrote:
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Haha, no. I've still got the plastic coverings in my door.


Please put them back on...lol

Other than that it looks good...


Hey, I like my clear climate controls, I don't care what anybody else thinks

ACav2Envy wrote:that dent should be able to be reached from inside the trunk. to fix professionally they will have to get the metal close to flat again. use some body filler then paint and blend the quarter, the c-pillar, and the trunk lid. i would guess around 400-500 dollars. but yeah a dent guy can get that to be a "hidden" imperfection.

you have a nice car. you cant let little things about your car make you hate it, everyone has them. if you get something else it will be the same thing with that. if its something that really bothers you fix those little things one by one.


Thanks, and I guess you have a point. I'm looking to get it repainted once I get myself another DD so I'll just wait until then to get the dent fixed. It'll probably end up black.



Re: Nothing Exciting Here
Saturday, April 19, 2008 6:19 AM
looking GREAT man!


-Markus
2002 Yellow Cavalier LS Sport


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