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400-600 is fine for sanding the bare plastic, but I'd personally use 800 for sanding the primer, and if you want to sand the lacquer and polish it back up you'll need 1500 or higher.
Yass my first spotted! Wasn't sure if that was you or not on monday night, just saw the back of the car dissapearing down the street, was coming home fae the GF's in Denny.
Aye that's where I work matey, were you in the estate or just passing by on the Back O'Hill road?
Known as an arch liner to most people on here, splash/mud/weather guard to most bodyshops/people in the trade. As Bio says cheapest place will be go raking in a scrapyard.
Lowering a non-sport clio by anything less than 60MM is a waste of time and money IMO. You'll only get bored with it, I did. As for the above comment, my car's on 60mm springs and there's no amount of people/speedbumps/multistorey car parks I can chuck at it that would make it rub or get stuck...
Well depending on how well you've prepped them, even if you do remove the paint they'll still be scotched/sanded underneath so they'll probably look crap and you'll have to re-paint them anyway. Depending on how bad the paint job is, I would personally just sand out the imperfections with some...
That's b****cks, I can change the tyres on my 172 16s (which are painted not even powdercoated) using a metal lever bar with no covering whatsoever without marking them. They've taken the piss because it was a woman, I'd go back down as long as you're 100% sure it wasn't someone else.