Hey guys I need some tips and tricks with body work and paint.
A little while back I had to put on a new passenger side door. Now my buddy and I are by no means experts at body work, I've actually never done any sort of body work. So getting the door properly aligned is a challenge. When we first put the door on we used washers for shims and got it good enough for the door to open and close. (It's not perfect at all) But it's getting kind of a pain to keep having to yank the door open and slam the door shut, plus it doesn't look very good. I was wondering if there were shims made for this stuff, and if you guys could steer me in the right direction in getting it aligned?
Also as far as paint goes, some of the paint on the edges is pretty dinged up because the door isn't aligned right. But it isn't a big deal to me because I cannot find a color to match the rest of the car for my life! I've tried a few different colors of Rustoleum and also a plastidip but none of them are even close! The paint on the car is sublime green, I don't know what the paint code is but maybe you guys could help me out a little in finding the right paint? It doesn't need to match perfectly and I know it won't but I want something that is close just to get me through until I repaint the car.
A little while back I had to put on a new passenger side door. Now my buddy and I are by no means experts at body work, I've actually never done any sort of body work. So getting the door properly aligned is a challenge. When we first put the door on we used washers for shims and got it good enough for the door to open and close. (It's not perfect at all) But it's getting kind of a pain to keep having to yank the door open and slam the door shut, plus it doesn't look very good. I was wondering if there were shims made for this stuff, and if you guys could steer me in the right direction in getting it aligned?
Also as far as paint goes, some of the paint on the edges is pretty dinged up because the door isn't aligned right. But it isn't a big deal to me because I cannot find a color to match the rest of the car for my life! I've tried a few different colors of Rustoleum and also a plastidip but none of them are even close! The paint on the car is sublime green, I don't know what the paint code is but maybe you guys could help me out a little in finding the right paint? It doesn't need to match perfectly and I know it won't but I want something that is close just to get me through until I repaint the car.