Red paint peeling
- Airportable
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Thank you Rob, that was several orders of magnitude more useful than my “contribution”.
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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 there 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
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 there 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
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It sounds like you literally managed to get a mirror finish there John
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I have to say that it surprised me how good a finish I managed to achieve.
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Thanks everybody - for some reason I didn't get notified about any replies, so thought nobody was talking to me
Hhmmm maybe I'll lash out on a bodyshop job... once I see the magic phrase "remove the door cards", I know it's beyond my increasingly shaky fingers/blurry eyes/short temper!
Hhmmm maybe I'll lash out on a bodyshop job... once I see the magic phrase "remove the door cards", I know it's beyond my increasingly shaky fingers/blurry eyes/short temper!
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