Bummer to stunner

[Chapster5]

Woah that looks soo weird! Like a Civic almost on the front lol!

[Patk91]

Agreed looks weird :P

Will look alot smarter with the splitter and some crazy lowness

[Daniel]

Fair play to you for doing it yourself.

Although I personally think its dreadful. The paint finish, the filler, the style you're going for.

Sorry.

[Patk91]

No worries Daniel I like everyone's opinion, I know paints not great and filler needs some finish, you'll be glad to know its just my first run hopefully get another better finish on it

[danzel]

Fair play to you for doing it yourself.

Although I personally think its dreadful. The paint finish, the filler, the style you're going for.

Sorry.

I'm sorry but I have to agree with this. Not only does it look like it's had Olay anti-wrinkle cream rubbed all over it, the bumpers and bonnet fitments are all wonky and there are panel gaps everywhere. Plus it looks like it was painted with white enamel and a roller. Fair play to you for trying to make it look better but IMO, I wouldn't have bothered.

[Patk91]

Im afraid this is what id expected but all feedback is good,
What would be the next step then?
Sort out bonnet and bumper fitment to get rid of the massive panel gaps?
And I agree with the paint... Lacking shine?

Is the 'euro smoothed' look even achievable with a 5 door?
Any ideas would be appreciated?

[Daniel]

Don't give up dude! At least you're trying and practice makes perfect as they say.

5 doors can pull it off, don't worry about that.

Once its all painted, give it a good flatting and polishing and see how it comes out. will look heaps better.

Look at it this way, you've had a go and what will be will be.

[Patk91]

Haha cheers, was wearing a frowny face for most of today :P Long weekend coming though, guna get my polish on!

[Daniel]

Just buy yourself plenty of wet and dry and get hold of a decent MAchine polisher.

[Patk91]

Righto, flat and polish gotcha,
I know you said you didn't like the style I was going for, specific bits on the car or just not a fan of smoothing clios ?

[Laura]

get some of the nicer headlights.. will make a massive difference

[Patk91]

get some of the nicer headlights.. will make a massive difference

Agreed my headlights have perished dreadfully :/ if there much choice for the ph1's??

[Laura]

oh and lows are much much needed... along with wheels

[Patk91]

Paydays the 15th coilovers will be on order
Was thinking of keeping my steels and polishing the outer part?

[Laura]

no you need to go uber wide and uber bling... distracts from the imperfections of the car... haha

[Patk91]

Haha hopefully there will be no imperfections :P

A friend of micraboy is banding him some steels, might jump on the bandwagon as I'm a fan of a deep dish...

[Daniel]

Banded steels with black centres, white bands, stretched rubber.

But don't do any of that until you've lowered it. All the way down.

[Bux]

Agreed my headlights have perished dreadfully :/ if there much choice for the ph1's??

Get a set of Dual Optics. They'll make it look better

[Patk91]

Not too keen on stretched tyres :/ is t possible to get wide tyres to fit? Plus how many inches would I need to band for a good look?

[jack_davey]

Surely paint the handles a contasting color to the rest of the bodywork defeats the object of smoothing them into the bodywork?

I'm not a fan personally, but I suppose it's better to learn on a car like this where you have nothing to loose, rather than ruin a mint example. Don't spend too much money on it though!