the painter of me is still the one =) (+ install!) - Toyota Caldina, 2.0 l., 1997

So the beginning of the beginning.
Finally, in our glorious city the season of good weather, favorable for coloring, has begun. Moreover, I already had paint on my hands + the necessary materials. And then day N comes. I go to my father's base, drive her to the workshop and two would-be painters in the person of myself and my father (my father is a professional in wood, but rarely painted cars =) start to frantically jerk old thresholds, admire new will be upset with what we eventually found under the removed rapids. And we found the following: On the right side, when the wing changed, the car was then given for painting, everything seemed to be fine, the color was picked up super. But here's the bad luck. Under the native rapids, the wing was not painted over = (after all, all it was necessary to unscrew 2 bolts. Apparently it was laziness, or xs what the painter was guided by.
The second point was the left side. due to the fact that I tightened so much with the left broken threshold, moisture and other all kinds of muck constantly got into the niche between the threshold and the body, which naturally caused slight corrosion in some areas.
In general, it was decided, since we started, to sand everything thoroughly and paint over the pieces as they are. Better a slightly unbroken color than a caardinally different or even worse rust!
For painting plastic, according to the punishments of a well-known painter, the following materials were used, in order:
1) Sandpaper (sandpaper is popularly used), abrasives 180, 400, 800 and 1200.
2) Transparent ORBAY Plastic Primer.
3) Final gray U-POL primer.
4) SilFix anti-silicone wipes.
5) Paint base 1A0 Platinum Metal.
6) DuPont 120s varnish.
7) Plain masking tape.
8) Good old solvent =).

The order of the conduct of the work was as follows:
Day one:
1) Before the loss of the pulse, plastic was sandwiched with sandpaper, until a matte surface was formed (in a simple way, they simply removed the old varnish). It took the entire 1st day. Nobody came home at all. I ate and immediately sleep =)

True, the mirrors had to be fastened to the car, 1 hour after applying the varnish. Unfortunately, it was already evening, and going without mirrors was not quite the right decision. And by my stupidity I managed to take the old mirrors to the dacha for storage.
The color, of course, turned out to be somewhat darker on the plastic (the painter who picked up the paint warned me about this (although it seems to me that they just picked up the paint!), Before starting my work). But that doesn't upset me. It is better to let him not hit a little than to be fundamentally different at all. Yes, and it is possible that the native paint just burned out + the car is still dirty, so you can't say 100%. But in general I am satisfied with the result. Considering that this is my first experience. =)

install
In general, we managed to find the time and install some elements. Please forgive me for the quality of the photos. I chose the best that was. The rest simply did not work out (it's a pity, there was the whole process of overhanging the details). Fucking Sony soap dish = (. My wife and I can't take a normal camera for ourselves.
Of the elements I didn't pick up only the front. It sucks and it's incomprehensible with it. The bumper is a little uneven. The lip doesn't want to fit evenly to the bumper. We'll have to buy materials in order for the whole village We decided not to rush. So far, the car has been delivered:
Rear pad
Side skirts
We look at the photo, comment = D, I will try to add more pictures here a little later.