Stuff is finally happening!
Fixed the thing that holds the trunk opening button and licence plate lights in place. Scrubbed the rusty spots, added anti rust base and paint, then applied new screws so it won't be falling off the car anymore.
Did some anti rust plus paint on the rear arches.
Started on doing up the horrible lacquer peel on both sides and fixing up the very scratched bumper. (pictured after paint, no lacquer yet). Idgaf about doing it properly. No filler and scrubbing anything flat and shiny.. Just a quick scratch and the paint goes on. The cars just not worth the effort.
Also pulled the dark film from the trunk window on the X3, it was wrinkly and throwing chips into the cabin. All of em need changing but at least we can see out the back window now, the wrinkles were really getting bad.
Top tip that actually works : let the car sit in the summer sun for a couple of hours, once heated enough you can pull the film without it leaving any glue behind. Well worth the patience, especially if you are looking for someone to put on a new film and won't diy it. They will be really greatful and it might even be cheaper as you don't have to pay for hours spent removing film.
Anyway, story time: I'm on holiday, finally got my own garden all week as its owned by family, so I can work on the cars to my hearts content. Unless the kids keep bothering me, which is 99.99999% of my time but that's alright. Anyways, I went into town after finding a paints shop via Google maps. For context we are in what's considered the countryside, but it's kinda major town in the region. Found the shop , lovely lady dressed in a black dress greets me with a smile, asks wth I want. She starts looking on the pc for which set of bmw color cards she needs to find my exact paint color. Already a bad sign lol. Anyway, we go out to the car, non of em match, so we decide on the factory color code card. It's gonna be good enough. Random painter guy arrives, obviously a pro at painting houses. Starts chatting her up. Lady tells me and the guy she would need at least 10 mins to fill a spraycan for me. I'm like alright, I got time. Biggest mistake i could make.. Anyway, she says she starts up the machine, while I tell her I'll go hit the government fag shop (yes that is a thing here unfortunately) to buy some cigs and a coke that's just on the next corner. 15 minutes later I come back. She tells me she hasn't even started on my paints yet.
Filled the guys order for 8liters of wall paint, had to make phone calls to her boss to ask for measurements and shit. Then after like 40 mins she started on my paints. While she was doing it she served 3 other customers who just wanted regular paints and masking tapes and stuff. She wasn'tike totally dumb to the business, she explained the difference between all the different masking tapes to a customer in such technical detail even I had no idea about. But still.
It took her 1.5 hours to get me 2 cans of fucking carpaint!!
Goddamn it was slow lol
It was really chill and all, typical countryside, but damn I would have been fine waiting only 30 mins for it lol
The real punch for the end of that story is that next to the fag shop, just 1 min walk away from the paint shop, was the local specialist Car Paint Shop!!! Shouldn't have listened to Google map first choice hahahaha
Edit2: BTW tby the end of the week, I play to put on all the dumb fake stickers I bought on Ali express. Completing the meme aspect of the car. There will be an actual "shopping list" on the doors that's for sure hahaha
Edit 3:.before you freak out about me doing a trash job "fixing up the paint". I know, but I have reasons. I want to change the front bumper to something cooler, which is cracked in 3626 places and needs professional fixing anyways. The rear arches need bodywork done, what I'm doing is just to keep it in check until I can afford it. It's gonna be ugly but it wont rust anymore. The paint peel I am handling as much as it needs to be, cleaning up beforehand, sanding it back, and it doesn't need any bog on it as its straight, just needs paint. Also I either do this now the best I have time for, or not at all for at least another year due to my circumstance of not having access to a private spot, only public street parking where it's very illegal to do any of this.
Fixed the thing that holds the trunk opening button and licence plate lights in place. Scrubbed the rusty spots, added anti rust base and paint, then applied new screws so it won't be falling off the car anymore.
Did some anti rust plus paint on the rear arches.
Started on doing up the horrible lacquer peel on both sides and fixing up the very scratched bumper. (pictured after paint, no lacquer yet). Idgaf about doing it properly. No filler and scrubbing anything flat and shiny.. Just a quick scratch and the paint goes on. The cars just not worth the effort.
Also pulled the dark film from the trunk window on the X3, it was wrinkly and throwing chips into the cabin. All of em need changing but at least we can see out the back window now, the wrinkles were really getting bad.
Top tip that actually works : let the car sit in the summer sun for a couple of hours, once heated enough you can pull the film without it leaving any glue behind. Well worth the patience, especially if you are looking for someone to put on a new film and won't diy it. They will be really greatful and it might even be cheaper as you don't have to pay for hours spent removing film.
Anyway, story time: I'm on holiday, finally got my own garden all week as its owned by family, so I can work on the cars to my hearts content. Unless the kids keep bothering me, which is 99.99999% of my time but that's alright. Anyways, I went into town after finding a paints shop via Google maps. For context we are in what's considered the countryside, but it's kinda major town in the region. Found the shop , lovely lady dressed in a black dress greets me with a smile, asks wth I want. She starts looking on the pc for which set of bmw color cards she needs to find my exact paint color. Already a bad sign lol. Anyway, we go out to the car, non of em match, so we decide on the factory color code card. It's gonna be good enough. Random painter guy arrives, obviously a pro at painting houses. Starts chatting her up. Lady tells me and the guy she would need at least 10 mins to fill a spraycan for me. I'm like alright, I got time. Biggest mistake i could make.. Anyway, she says she starts up the machine, while I tell her I'll go hit the government fag shop (yes that is a thing here unfortunately) to buy some cigs and a coke that's just on the next corner. 15 minutes later I come back. She tells me she hasn't even started on my paints yet.
Filled the guys order for 8liters of wall paint, had to make phone calls to her boss to ask for measurements and shit. Then after like 40 mins she started on my paints. While she was doing it she served 3 other customers who just wanted regular paints and masking tapes and stuff. She wasn'tike totally dumb to the business, she explained the difference between all the different masking tapes to a customer in such technical detail even I had no idea about. But still.
It took her 1.5 hours to get me 2 cans of fucking carpaint!!
Goddamn it was slow lol
It was really chill and all, typical countryside, but damn I would have been fine waiting only 30 mins for it lol
The real punch for the end of that story is that next to the fag shop, just 1 min walk away from the paint shop, was the local specialist Car Paint Shop!!! Shouldn't have listened to Google map first choice hahahaha
Edit2: BTW tby the end of the week, I play to put on all the dumb fake stickers I bought on Ali express. Completing the meme aspect of the car. There will be an actual "shopping list" on the doors that's for sure hahaha
Edit 3:.before you freak out about me doing a trash job "fixing up the paint". I know, but I have reasons. I want to change the front bumper to something cooler, which is cracked in 3626 places and needs professional fixing anyways. The rear arches need bodywork done, what I'm doing is just to keep it in check until I can afford it. It's gonna be ugly but it wont rust anymore. The paint peel I am handling as much as it needs to be, cleaning up beforehand, sanding it back, and it doesn't need any bog on it as its straight, just needs paint. Also I either do this now the best I have time for, or not at all for at least another year due to my circumstance of not having access to a private spot, only public street parking where it's very illegal to do any of this.
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