So I had a "small" rust bubble on the wheel well lip and decided to fix it. Long story short, it wasn't "Tiny" and I went down the rabbit hole and ended up doing some paint touch ups in addition to the repair. I went with real Base coat, not a rattle can and 2K clear. Built a hack spray Booth out of my garage with fan exhaust extraction. Color is 81U bright red. For a garage job I think it came out pretty good. There's a little bit of trash in the clear that's easily wet sanded out in spots. I shot a blend on both the right side of the bumper and the bottom of the quarter panel. The quarter is blended over top the wheel arch and the clear is blended near the top of the sail panel. Bumper is blended about where it says Pontiac and fully cleared. I didn't want to get into a full repaint with a small compressor and a house garage. The 23 year old paint on the car buffs up quite well and seems to match pretty good. Place where I got the paint took the 81U code then scanned my fuel cap door and made adjustments. He got it pretty close. I can't believe how much a paint job is these days.

 

Nice job! Any pics of how you fixed the hole? Most of the shops around here wouldn’t even fix something like that unless it was under insurance.

 

I welded in steel. As you can tell I'm no welder. Plus it's flux core not gas so it's spitty and hard to weld thin metal with that much heat. I didn't care as I was obviously using filler on top of it. I just wanted a solid foundation under it.

 

Thanks….you would never know by the finished repair.

 

Looks great for a garage paint job! I just got mine done a few weeks ago. I like the bright red on the firebirds and trans-am. A high school buddy had a '92 v6 car in red. And another girl had a 4th gen trans-am in red. They looked gorgeous when cleaned up.

 

Oh I ended up in deep. One thing led to another and I did a blend on the front right fender due to some damage that was on the forward side of the wheel arch. Removed the license plate mount and repainted the entire front bumper because the clear was peeling, then wet sanded the entire car and brought the old 23 year old paint back to life and removed the door bumper strips, and polished it up. The only time consuming part which wasn't really that bad, was removing the garbage that ended up in the the clear. Used a Kovax block for that which really works exceptionally well. Took the orange peel parts out with 2000 grit wet, then 3000 and 5000 3M Trizact over all of it.