{"id":3087,"date":"2017-07-03T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/?p=3087"},"modified":"2017-07-03T06:00:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T10:00:59","slug":"duct-tape-spray-paint-collision-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/2017\/07\/03\/duct-tape-spray-paint-collision-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Duct Tape + Spray Paint = Collision Repair?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing some work on a Honda Ridgeline when the front bumper caught my eye.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3094\" src=\"https:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/2017_07_03_01.jpg\" alt=\"2017_07_03_01.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t enough for them to just patch the hole in the bumper with duct tape, but they decided to try to make it blend in with a little spray paint. Unfortunately, the color of the paint on the vehicle is an odd blue-grey, not easily matched with paint, so their patch stands out a bit. I think that just plain grey duct tape might look better than what they ended up with.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>New blog posts every Monday and Thursday, plus pictures throughout the week on <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mech_malarkey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/mechanicalmalarkey\">Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Mechanical Malarkey <a href=\"http:\/\/mechanicalmalarkey.com\/stickers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stickers available for $5<\/a> anywhere in the US!<\/p>\n<p>-Dan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was doing some work on a Honda Ridgeline when the front bumper caught my eye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[26,31,52],"class_list":["post-3087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-shop","tag-damage","tag-diy","tag-paint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mechanicalmalarkey.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}