Now I have all the glass in I decided to give it a wash and polish out a few marks from the machine buff. When I chamois around the front headlights the paint wiped off the new headlight surrounds. Just bloody lucky again, I get a bit cranky when I have to constantly fix, modify or repair new parts to get them to an acceptable level.

I recently ordered two new rear bumperettes for the van, I decided to remove them from the packaging to check them before leaving the shop just to make sure. When unwrapped we found the chrome flaking in strips from one bumperettes and a dent in the other. The parts shop ordered me two more which took two weeks and another round trip. Anyway rather than do the two and a half hour round trip again to take them back only to get two more that probably haven't been painted correctly either, I decided to just repaint them myself. The new headlight frames from factory were top coat painted on the shiny surface, no etch primer used. I masked them up, sandblasted, etch primed and top coated. Took me three hours.

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