MoNkEy MaGiC
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Registered: 12th Apr 03
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i primed and sprayed them with HALFORDS paint about a year ago, and about 7 months ago it started peeling and looks really shitty now, but mind u it was a really shite job so my own fault .....well i been to scrappy and got me two new strips, is their any special or better paint i shud use or do i just need to give it a good paint job unlike last time?
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Greasemonkey
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make sure you key the plastic, get rid of all the old back to black polish etc, and use plastic primer, it shouldnt peel if done properly
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MoNkEy MaGiC
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wat u mean key the plastic? get rid of all the black so its bear metal?
or just smoothly sand it down lightly
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AdiSRI
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Registered: 1st May 02
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get a bodyshop to do it, mine only cost me £20!
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AdiSRI
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quote:
Originally posted by Greasemonkey
make sure you key the plastic, get rid of all the old back to black polish etc, and use plastic primer, it shouldnt peel if done properly
The rails are metal mate not plastic and i was told by the bodyshop they had to use some 'special' primer before painting else it peels off as monkey magic has found.
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Greasemonkey
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key the plastic means basically sand it so you get a rough surface rather than smooth to give the paint some thing to stick to or to KEY to, you can get away with just scotch brighting them sometimes which is a rough kind of pad,
Use 800 grit or something maybe even finer, the silicone in polishes etc makes paint peel so if ya sand the surface and make sure its clean ya laughing
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Greasemonkey
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i really didnt know they were metal mate, supired always thought they were plastic
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AdiSRI
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the corsa c ones are plastic, but the corsa b ones are metal with some strange thickly layered zinc sorta paint on em!
Dont know if the bodyshop took that paint off first of just painted onto it tho!
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boyracer2002
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Registered: 10th Aug 02
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Get rid of them and smooth your roof 
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tazmaniac
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use an etch prima it contains acid and bites into the metal to provide a good key for the new paint.
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MJ
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this might be a stupied question but how do you remove the roof rails on a corsa b
cheers
mark
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AdiSRI
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quote:
Originally posted by boyracer2002
Get rid of them and smooth your roof
Thats a BIG job and i've heard its hard to do it without geting cracks soonr or later a its one of the chassis flex points!
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Kris TD
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800 grit, nah i would use something like 320 grit, u'll be there forever otherwise. i sanded my primer on my front bumper with this and it looks shiny as. no scooring lines.
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boyracer2002
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I dunno well i have done mine and it looks sweet, welded up which i know people said to do and not to do but al just see how long it lasts.
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Greasemonkey
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Kris mate been keying stuff with 800 for years now, looks like i been wasting my time LOL, have to get me some rougher paper i like you said thought you would get score lines, like the way you spell ya name just like mine KRIS hehe
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