colour coding exterior handles

[JD]

right guys and girls, i know how to get these things off the car (ie taking door card off etc etc etc)

but once they're off how do you colour code them so they dont;

a; stick the handle to the moulding so it doesnt move (so not a handle anymore)

b; create a good enough seal in the lacquer to make sure when i open it over the next X number of years it wont chip away etc etc . . . ?

jamie

 

[JD]

anyone got any advice?

jamie

 

[AlexS]

Bloody hell your on a spraying spree Jamie, I bet you've done your lunch box nautical blue too :rasp:

 

[Renault_Boy01]

bump as i wanna know

 

[JD]

lol alex, i may have didnt make mummy's sandwiches taste good though :S

lol

jamie

bump for info please!!!

 

[Final Maxim]

get a piece of masking tape and roll it up into a ball, wedge it (where you dont need paint) so it leaves a gap. as for laquer just put an extra few coats on

 

[f0xy]

bumpety bump el bumpio!!

im interested in this also...

 

[Renault_Boy01]

surely somebody knows !

 

[Gumby]

Can you not take them apart? Get a set from a breakers yard and try it on them first

 

[Middo]

even i wouldnt attempt to spray handles myself. You'll never get a good enough finish, and they will chip really badly as they're in a vulnerable area. For the price a bodyshop charges get them done professionally. I've had my bumpstrips and handles including bootlock done for 100 quid.

 

[JD]

cheers FM mate, i have done that kinda already, just wanted to see if thats what others have done

lol gumby

bump for any more info ***cough -Karl- cough*** yhpm

jamie

 

[JD]

even i wouldnt attempt to spray handles myself. You'll never get a good enough finish, and they will chip really badly as they're in a vulnerable area. For the price a bodyshop charges get them done professionally. I've had my bumpstrips and handles including bootlock done for 100 quid

where mark? this is the thing, i dont wanna do them myself.

btw you will have PM in a sec about . . . . things

jamie

 

[Middo]

just at my local bodyshop in cheadle (forget the name). Everybody thinks its really cheap to do them yourself, but when you add it up its not at all. Your talking a tenner for a good tin of professionally mixed paint (not from halfrauds) fiver for lauqer fiver for primer, couple of quid for mixed sandpaper sheets and lots of hours of prep to get an average finish, so your talking 25 quid and a load of ballache for something you'll prob have to respray in a years time, when a bodyshop wont charge you much more.