07-21-2011, 07:07 AM | #1 |
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Black wheels and sides protection
I am thinking painting the wheels in black or dark grey (anthrax). Before doing so can you give some ideas if there is a black washable spray (or any other idea) to paint them and see how it will look?
I can do that in photoshop but would like to see it in real. Also, sometimes visiting my countryside hometown I need to pass through narrow dirty roads which are covered by tall wild hard herbs am afraid that passing through will surely scarify car's sides. Is there any protective film available to cover car's sides in order to protect it? |
07-21-2011, 12:24 PM | #2 | |
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PS: sorry, tried to provide the link but on holiday with the iPad and the bloody thing does not want to. Just do a search for Scotchgaurd film 3M.
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07-21-2011, 03:19 PM | #3 |
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Have the 3M on the hood, mirrors and top of rear bumper. Works great. Installer said has done the wheel arches on Porsches, so no problem for the sides. But it goes best on flat surfaces and the sides aren't. So maybe just along the sides at the bottom will suffice?
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This 3M film looks like a good solution but I've read somewhere that when the time comes to remove (for sale for instance) the film after some years, it is not that easy as they told...
The film melts after some period especially on the hot countries (like Greece for instance) and it is like try to remove a very big old sticker from the whole car! So chemicals needed or full brush shinning with a machine... Are you aware of this? |
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07-22-2011, 11:26 AM | #8 |
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I havent tried this, but it might be worth a try...
http://artprimo.com/catalog/molotow-...nt-p-1122.html |
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That 3M film is pricey and quite a lot of labour involved. Bodywork needs to be very clean before it goes on so I would say that 700euro is on the expensive side but probably about what it would cost. For a professional job that is.
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I paid $200Cdn. for the hood, mirrors and top of rear bumper. So 700 is expensive.
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I reacon you would need about 4m to do a whole car if you re-use some of the bits you cut out, so material costs alone would be around £300 (CAD$460). Add our insane labour costs and it all adds up.
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Nope, a couple of layers of good hard carnauba wax will go a long way in protecting the paint job.
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That the One? http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HARLY-WAX-...item563aebeffe
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Also please note that it will not protect against heavy scratches and stone chips like the 3M film would. But as I said it will provide some protection against lighter scratches, tree sap, pollution, bird sh!t etc. Oh, and as a side effect, your car will be nice and shiny
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Get it off quickly though as bird lime can damage paint over time. Worst I have seen though is bat sh!t. A friends car had a blob on the bonnet that actually ate though the paint and required a respray We all thought that somebody had poured acid on the car but the car respray bloke recognised it as bat doo doo.
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Its too late now. This shit left my car a huge bad sign and I made it worst. I tried to cleaned and polished with a car polish creme but....
damn, I will put a big sticker on it! Otherwise I feel that the whole bonnet now need repolishing. |
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