Bedliner Car Restoration... (1998 Mitusbishi Eclipse GST)

[JayyDSM_]

This is the Build Thread for 1998 Mitusbishi Eclipse GST. Reply below.

 

[JayyDSM_]

Forgot to update everything but the bedliner eclipse is no longer bed liner, now it’s just really bad paint, I’ve never painted before but I gave it a shot and it looks better than before but it’s not amazing.

 

[pauleyman]

Have you already wet sanded and polished it?

 

[JayyDSM_]

Have you already wet sanded and polished it?

No and I’m not entirely sure if I’m going to, not the biggest fan of the color now that’s it’s been layed down and there’s some panels where the prep work was less than ideal and the finish quality is really bad. When removing the bed liner there were some panels where the bed liner caused scaring to the panel underneath somehow and I got in a rush to see everything done. I’ll revisit paint and body in the future but next thing on the list is gonna be a rebuild, original 25 year old motor with 248,000+ miles on it.

 

[JayyDSM_]

Passenger side needs more coats and the car needs new badging and rear stickers but I’m so happy with the before and after so far.

 

[Tina94]

I will never understand why anyone would use bedliner as an exterior paint. Or flat black for that matter, besides on a rat rod type build. Already looks 1000x better, good work.