Looks good. How many cans did it take?Quote:
Originally Posted by Discofever
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Looks good. How many cans did it take?Quote:
Originally Posted by Discofever
About 9 cans of matte black (3 coats) and 8 cans of satin clear. The satin clear allows me to wash it and it protects the matte from bird crap and things like that. It's a surprising good result but I'm not sure the same would have been achieved if I'd used any other colour.Quote:
Originally Posted by Xtreme
Has anyone tried that spray-on Rubber type paint that u see on U-tube before??Quote:
Originally Posted by Discofever
From the U-tube clips it looks fairly durable and then u can simply pear it off.....
Just curious as to whether anyone has done that b4 ???
if you go off road a bit i wouldnt touch it. comes off easier than you think. no such thing as pin striping, it's more like peeling. my mate sprayed his rims black. lasted one off road trip before it looked s..t.Quote:
Originally Posted by Robmacca
not bad if you have a rice cooker street car. plus the rubber paint is pretty expensive too. not really a cheap option as people think. i looked into it for a faded honda i was trying to sell.
vinyl wrap is a more durable option. still for offroad stuff i would only do top surfaces.
i like the black spray can job looks good, but really, when you add all the cans up the cost is probably getting to the same as just buying proper paint and doing a spray job. if done properly will outlast any fancy stuff.
gona spray the bonnet of my d1 once i get the other jobs finished. was thinking of vinyl wrapping the top ridge of it as well once painted in a black wrap. or just wrap the whole bonnet now and not paint it.
so many things to do.
My bonnet need a coat of something. Not sure whether to have a go at painting it back to stock of try something else. The clear isnt that clear any more LOL.
Dave
The Disco took $180 of paint tops, about $10 of sand paper and $5 of masking tape. It was all done for under $200.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fausto79
That's pretty good. I would have thought more. Like i said, it does look good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Discofever
I wouldn't use the rubber paint though like robmacca was asking about
Could sand it back and do spraycan job like discofever, or if you have compressor and spraygun, do a proper job. Depending on colour, all the paint and thinners, primer (if needed) may cost from 250-500.Quote:
Originally Posted by SouthOz
You can get bonnet wrapped in vinyl for about $400. Lasts a while.
Depending on the car's worth and the rest of the body, the spraycan option is the cheapest. If discofever did his whole car for under 200, I'd say you could do bonnet for $50-80
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