Tried to fill and paint the front bumper to get rid of the front license plate holes, and I failed...



Question I have is...how much is it going to set me back in order to get this fixed professionally, or can I do it myself?

 

you can do it yourself but i hope your pretty confident. i did one hell of an ugly job on my old cobalt when i took off the wing and tried to fill them in.

ended up completely sanding the top of the trunk and repainted it before i sold it. then i bought an 09 ss/tc and just stayed happy with my wing and not dealing with filling in holes.

 

Damn, one guy on here just bought some plastic plugs from auto zone and painted them white turned out really good.

 

Yeah, saw that right after I started this, and I'm kind of regretting it...haha.

 

Yeah I too did the plug thing. It's better and you can always go back to a wing

 

cesar, what plugs did you use? I cant seem to find any that are large enough to fill the big hole enough for my liking.

 

failed= get it fix asap

 

I did that to mine.

 

you have that problem alot dont you

 

That's what she said...

 

You guys are fucked up lol this is so off topic lol, ur supposed to browse away from this site when you decide to fap!

 

Unless they're looking at the Hottest Female Cobalt Owner thread!

 

That was so 2 years ago

ON TOPIC UNLIKE THE REST OF THESE POSTS:
Yeah, use some plugs, that way you can go back if you wanted.

 

I don't know if those plugs are going to be big enough to cover the craptastic job I did to those holes.

 

Ok, I'll correct my statement.

When you're fapping you're supposed to navigate to "The Dungeon" or a **** site...not the appearance section lol you wont find bewbs here

 

Use hot glue or something to fill the rest

 

Hot glue? hahaha yeah, that will do the job.

Just re drill the holes and re fill them.

Or just buy bigger plugs. They have a lot of different sizes at auto zone.

 

What about the paint tho? Am I going to have to sand it down to the primer and start over?

 

I would not do either of those things.

GO to a GM dealership and ask for your car's color touch up paint. Costs around 14 bucks, than re dill the holes and buy some magnum steel.

Then paint the magnum steel only.

Painting anything else will give you a mis-matched color on the body. Sanding will make the surrounding areas look even crappier.

Or just paint the "plugs" and put them in.

 

I already have some touch up paint and clearcoat. I used some epoxy with it already, and I couldn't get it flush with the bumper. Should I sand off the touch-up paint I used then?

 

You can probably sand off the "epoxy" you already have. I would be very careful you don't scratch anything else.

To get it flush, all you do is get a battery and roll it over it and use a knife or a box cutter to cut of the excess.

 

I filled the holes that were in my filler plate with JB Weld,
cause the idiots at the dealership decided to drill holes in the filler panel to mount a plate holder on it...



If you look here you can see some minor imperfections, but after a wet sand and another coat it was good as new.

Just tape off the back, fill it with the JB Weld and sand it down like you would any body filler

 

I have body paint...might have to pull my plate off some weekend....

 

What's JB Weld? Anything you can do from an average joe?

Where can you buy that?

Very nice job

 

What grit of sandpaper did you use, and did you just spray painted it afterwards?