My 04-06 LS430 merged w/ a 98-00 LS400 bumper Project (heavily loaded w/ pix) by romeo291

By diyauto
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4-12-2010

A couple of updates for you guys. Sooooo, progress has been really slow since I've had to work the past 3 weekends in a row. So yeah, the J.O.B has me tied down bad, but I managed to get some progress going.

So, there was A LOT of sanding that we needed to do. Knowing that this was going to be painted black, and black is a super unforgiving color, we didn't want any imperfections. So we began sanding:



My boy Chet, lending a helping hand:



Pretty much, anytime we felt the level was off, we added more bondo and sanded it down. We kept doing that to get the leveling perfect.



So after a substantial amount of sanding, we loosely laid the bumper on the car w/ the fog lights to see what it looks like:











We then sanded it down some more, and worked our way to higher grit sandpaper. Then we primered it:













Overall, it looks really good being one color. You can't even tell that this bumper was two pieces, which, of course, was our goal. There's a lot of sanding that still needs to be done before I can say it's perfect. After that, I'll primer it one last time before sending it for paint.



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