Anyone painted their car themselfs?

[imprezaworks]

You gone off the thoughts of a civic?

 

[danh90]

It would be like going from having steak everyday to having cheap burgers

 

[imprezaworks]

ha ha. What put you off?

 

[danh90]

Never been out in a civic but think the clios alot nicer and a lot of efforts gone into it

 

[imprezaworks]

True. Clio's are in your blood now, theres no escaping

 

[Chris_ZS]

wrapping is not easy. but your going to get better results tha paint. I did it with a friend (vital tbh) on my fiesta and it took 20 hours. on a hot day helped as no heat gun was needed for most.

Google the vinyl warehouse it has it all cheap. cost me £70 in wrap get the biggest and one of the smaller 5m will be enough foe a Clio.

my thought was, if I fail. its only £70

don't go dark Matt grey. it was not dark! lol here's some pics..

I should have taken more time in certain places, joins you should use a ruler instead of mashing it with a scapel and as you can see at the numberplate, not good.

At first it was a bombsite of bubbles and I was a little disheartened, but they all went away with popping and it was literally just a few niggles here and there and the joins looked crap and that, but it was a track **** and looked great on track!

 

[jamievt]

haha i was looking at the 'dark' grey and agree doesnt look dark looks like primer haha might try anthracite wrap see if thats a bit darker

 

[kudos]

Had a few people tell me now painting is easier than wrapping :/ confused what to do think I'm going to attemp to wrap it then if that fails go ahead with painting

wrapping is far easier and quicker

 

[danh90]

Your fiesta looks spot on mate I can't see anything near the reg plate?

 

[Chris_ZS]

pictures make it look better than it was trust me. but it wasn't too much of a show car anyway. if it looked like the last picture I would have been happy but the grey was primer like.

rear reg plate is shabby you can see silver.

 

[mark123]

I've painted cars in the past and prep is a total ball ache, I just don't have the patience.

I've already decided I'll be wrapping rather than painting if needed in future.