Where do i get bondo? - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

miken517 · 10-11-2003, 05:30 PM

Where can i get bondo so i can work on my grille? And i have a dark green gen3 cam, how will i paint the grille after i have primed it? Where do i get the exact or similar color for my car? Thanks in advance.

Nick · 10-11-2003, 05:35 PM

bondo = brand name, its called auto body putty/filler or something of the like

should be in any automotive store, along with fiberglass

i've only seen grey bondo, red hardener, so it ends up looking pink

you could get a little tube of body filler that's pretty much premixed,

just give the whole grill a light sanding, wipe off the dust, prime with auto primer, if you can find something specific to abs plastic, then that's better,

couple coats of primer, couple coats of paint, couple coats of clear and you're good

tinman831 · 10-11-2003, 05:43 PM

any place will have it...walmart, kmart, target. take a look in their automotive section

miken517 · 10-11-2003, 05:50 PM

thank you for the help, i need to find primer and the paint now.

Nick · 10-11-2003, 05:55 PM

shoudl be in the same isle

Camry_rider · 10-13-2003, 01:09 AM

I just finished my grille. This is how I did mine. I cut the middle peice out with a dremel and a hacksaw blade, I found this fiberglass resin jelly made by bondo. it worked out pretty good. It has some flex to it, be I doubt its gunna crack on me anytime soon. I took the grill off to do all of this btw. Now this is where I messed up.....YOU NEED TO TAPE OFF THE HOLES YOU ARE FILLING! I did it without doing that first and caused myself a headache. I ended up using black eletrical tape to tape off the holes on the back, so the bondo has a place to sit and set up. When you start sanding it all down intially try to use like a 80 grit sand paper, then go to a 220, then like a 600. Thats what I did, I still ended up with some little pits in the final bondo work and paint, but I just got lazy. You may want to find some filler in a tube and apply that over the bondo work after its all sanded down to make sure you got a nice clean look, then wet sand it to make sure you got out all the imperfections. *DO NOT PAINT IT UNTIL YOUR SURE EVERYTHING IS PERFECT! If you paint it...and find imperfections....well budy break out the sand paper again. You may want to take your car to a body shop and find out exactly what paint you have, so you can ask for the paint by its name. Also get a clear coat spray paint to put over your paint job, it makes it looks so much better and it will stay looking good! Good luck bro. Its actually not a hard job to do, just make sure you got alot of time to do it.