Well as I said, I took so many photos, and it's hard to tell the difference between many of them without concentrated study, more than I wanted to do right now and here - but at least I have an historical record in the event I need it for one reason or another.
I'll show a sort of status today. It will include a second (or third, and even a forth on a few) application at many locations, with a bit of explanation on each.
So the reflector screw-hole-fills worked out pretty good. They needed a second application, but were then good enough. Same thing on the license plate screw holes, although they were still a little sunken after the second sanding.
This back-wall-repair screw-hole had some run, which sanded out fine.
As did the jack-grid driver-side damage.
And the unquestionably worst spot here on the passenger-side.
Also, I gave a bit more attention to the right rear roof-line tree gouge, using the epoxy as a sort of filler. I'm not exactly sure how well it will do in that use, but I guess we'll see.
I was pretty pleased with the potential for all of these, but especially here on the roof (and of course those major front wall issues).
On a third application, for a few of the holes that were still unsatisfactory, I tried a sort of putty knife process, and began to see the real benefits of learning how to use Bondo properly. Although I have no idea if there's an aluminum Bondo product - I suppose there is - but I had the epoxy and was still using off the original tubes.
Again, after letting sit for a short time, there were some runs.
Which all sanded down fine again.
I'm satisfied on this one.
And here. The lower hole is under the trim molding anyway.
This one however, still needs attention, but what a great solution for this problem area should it prove successful and stay in place.
And the back-wall holes kind of surprised me, that they were going to need a little more work too.
Then I got the idea to try and use wax-paper and tape to hold the epoxy in place until it became solid.
Here's that big spot on the passenger front wall.
And the five spots on the back wall.
Yesterday I was able to easily peel the blue tape and wax paper from the one area and this morning I'll go see about removing the five small wax paper pieces, but they are all mostly covered now with color-band masking! So we'll see their final results in the future, but tomorrow's post is going to get into another subject. :D
