Though I'd share my views on this topic as I haven't posted on here for a fair while. Earlier this summer I took my TF off on a little road trip to Lake Garda in Italy . Whilst passing through the numerous Toll  booths I unfortunately got far too close to one and scraped a huge amount of paint off the passenger side mirror back, on a rusty bracket that was protruding out from said booth and had no purpose whatsoever in being there other than to mark sticky outie bits of a car! On return to the UK I set about removing the entire mirror head to see if I could manage a decent rattle can spray job. 
The result of my attempt was excellent even though I say so myself. At this point if I were to give advice on this topic I would say my only concern was to obtain a good match to the Firefrost red of my TF. I took the mirror head to a local paint supplier Carlac ( other specialist companies are available) who are good at this sort of job. My only other concern was having to leave the mirror head with them for a couple of days for them to match the paint, as ther is always a chance that it could have been lost. I bought three large rattle cans of primer, colour and lacquer , plus some 1200 and 1500 grit wet and dry. Another tip would be to get plenty of all three coatings on and let them fully dry overnight whilst also flatting down between coats.  The finish I achieved was so good it put the other mirror back to shame but I'll be leaving that job for overwinter when the car is sorned. 
John  

Read More...