dpbayly
Active Member
Hi all
I'm back in a Mercedes my last being a CL55 about 18 months ago and last Sunday I picked up a C32 AMG.
Here's a few pictures of how it looked when I got it home:
My wife said it's very plain and very grandad'ish which made me sulk
So I immediately started planning what I will do to it to make it my own and more aggressive looking and through the week I ordered a few bits then yesterday at 5pm when I clocked off work I got the C32 up on the ramp and I started the huge amount of work I had set my self to transform the car in a 1 day.
Here's what I did and how I did it with some pictures along the way.
First job was to strip a load of parts:
-the rear lights
-centre brake light
-wing mirror indicator lights,
-all the badges form the back and sides
-front grill
-grill at the top of the bonnet
-wheels
Once all this lot was off the car I whacked it all in the work truck and carted it all home before going back into work and using masking sheet I covered the entire car and then masked off the brake calipers to freshen them up with a very left field colour,
masked up:
primed and white base coat:
Sprayed neon toxic green:
then lacquered:
unmasked:
But before I unmasked I decided to paint the rear diffuser section on the rear bumper satin black
At this point it was now about 9pm so I called it a night at work and went home to spray all the parts I took home earlier.
I powered up the compressor and got out my small touch up spray gun fortunately I live in the middle of nowhere so I have no neighbours to annoy with the compressor firing up
I started by tinting the lights I do this by a process of adding standard base coat black to normal car lacquer and than applying coats till the desired effect is reached, done this way gives you a great high gloss finish and the tint is very translucent.
One coat:
unmasked and three coats:
Next I sprayed all the high gloss black parts that's the badges, front grill, newly purchased boot spoiler and upper bonnet grill:
By this point it was now around 12am and I was getting tried but I still had the wheels to prep and paint satin black so I just got on with it.
masked up and about to prime (as I'm spraying satin black they done have to be perfect as imperfections don't show as bad)
at this point I just got on with it and didn't take any more pictures as i just forgot because I was so tired, I finally finished painting a 3am and went to bed.
But I was up again at 8am to start again.
Here's everything unmasked and ready to load back ito the truck to take back into work:
I'm back in a Mercedes my last being a CL55 about 18 months ago and last Sunday I picked up a C32 AMG.
Here's a few pictures of how it looked when I got it home:
My wife said it's very plain and very grandad'ish which made me sulk
So I immediately started planning what I will do to it to make it my own and more aggressive looking and through the week I ordered a few bits then yesterday at 5pm when I clocked off work I got the C32 up on the ramp and I started the huge amount of work I had set my self to transform the car in a 1 day.
Here's what I did and how I did it with some pictures along the way.
First job was to strip a load of parts:
-the rear lights
-centre brake light
-wing mirror indicator lights,
-all the badges form the back and sides
-front grill
-grill at the top of the bonnet
-wheels
Once all this lot was off the car I whacked it all in the work truck and carted it all home before going back into work and using masking sheet I covered the entire car and then masked off the brake calipers to freshen them up with a very left field colour,
masked up:
primed and white base coat:
Sprayed neon toxic green:
then lacquered:
unmasked:
But before I unmasked I decided to paint the rear diffuser section on the rear bumper satin black
At this point it was now about 9pm so I called it a night at work and went home to spray all the parts I took home earlier.
I powered up the compressor and got out my small touch up spray gun fortunately I live in the middle of nowhere so I have no neighbours to annoy with the compressor firing up
I started by tinting the lights I do this by a process of adding standard base coat black to normal car lacquer and than applying coats till the desired effect is reached, done this way gives you a great high gloss finish and the tint is very translucent.
One coat:
unmasked and three coats:
Next I sprayed all the high gloss black parts that's the badges, front grill, newly purchased boot spoiler and upper bonnet grill:
By this point it was now around 12am and I was getting tried but I still had the wheels to prep and paint satin black so I just got on with it.
masked up and about to prime (as I'm spraying satin black they done have to be perfect as imperfections don't show as bad)
at this point I just got on with it and didn't take any more pictures as i just forgot because I was so tired, I finally finished painting a 3am and went to bed.
But I was up again at 8am to start again.
Here's everything unmasked and ready to load back ito the truck to take back into work:
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