So, guess who's painting all his trim? This is mainly a DIY for my site but I like to post my stuff up here since this is where I got my start writing DIYs,
, nothing to do with FE of course.
Anyway, it's unfinished, but big, so working in parts!
Before shot:
Before bumper:
Using two or three cans of this for the whole deal:
Piece of coroplast over a trashcan in the garage, my painting center:
An MID picture in here for no reason, that comes out to ~52 mpg for a 3 mile cold start, not bad:
Start by taking the two screws that hold the corner lights in and taking the lights out:
Make sure to store everything nicely:
Tools needed, that socket is a 10mm:
Take these two out on each side:
And this one on the bottom, this will allow you to remove the t-bar:
Get these two bolts gone:
Two of these on each side come out, might have to move the wheel a bit:
Two of these corner jobs:
Move the t-bar to expose these three things:
Start pulling the bumper off and unplug the bumper lights:
But it somewhere not scratchy:
To get at the fenders undo these two:
These three up top:
This one in the crack. Use an open-ended wrench and open the door, stand outside and reach over and do it from the crack, you'll see what I mean:
Get these screws on that bottom trim piece:
The bolt on the bottom as well:
When it's off hit up these two last bolts for the fender:
Get bored and work on this piece of trim instead:
Blast it with the hose, the suds, the hose:
Then clean it with alcohol and let it dry:
Here it is drying:
Work on the rocker panel while it dies, these plastic screws suck, you need to be very careful, especially with the ones that are more exposed:
Yay, I stripped one:
Grabbed the edge with some pliers and turned it out like that. I always leave the last few threads in the thing and use them to pull the whole thing out as one:
Some more up top:
Even more up top:
Now, get bored of that and work in the other piece that on the door. Take off this 10mm plastic nut:
This is how it clips in along the bottom, the first task is to unclip:
Half unclipped first:
Go ahead and fully unclip and then push up to get it off the metal rail:
Get bored again and decide to finish the fender, undo all the plasticy junk in the wheel well:
Fender out:
Flip it over to expose the two clips for the trim piece, pop them with some pliers:
Yay, it's so pretty:
Hit that first piece with some paint, drying at this point:
Not that this is a vertical line spray, you need to hold the can vertical to keep it going and work in a smooth, sweeping motion:
With time, there will be more.
