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I finally got around to doing something about the bottom of my front wings last weekend. From 8 years worth of stones hitting them, there was little or no paint left. Time to treat it before the rust started eating them away to a point of no return.
Before I started:
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A distinct lack of paint behind the wheel
Jacked up the car on axle stands, removed the wheels and got busy.
Started to rub them down and found the rust was just starting to get at it:
(Click for bigger picture)
A bit of rubbing down:
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A bit more work with the wet 'n' dry:
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Then gave it a coat in this:
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Waited for that to dry - smoothed it out a bit and gave it another coat. Smoothed that with some finer wet 'n' dry and left it to cure for a couple of hours.
Then to the topcoat. I bought the Ford twin pack of paint and lacquer as IMO the paint colour is a better match than Halfords etc.
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Repeated a couple of times, leaving 30 minutes between coats. I then left the last coat until the next day as by now it was getting late. The paint looked fairly dark next to the original - was a bit worried about the match.
Next morning I put on the lacquer in a few thin coats and it brought the colour to a pretty good match:
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I then waited about 3 hours whilst the laquer hardened in the sunshine before fitting the mudflaps. Not going to get that all stone chipped again!
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And on the back as I think the car looks better balanced with mudflaps front and back rather than just front:
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Did a few rust spots around the car whilst I was waiting for primer / top coat / lacquer to dry:
Had to actually file most of the rust away on this one! Then Kurust:
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Then topcoat and lacquer.
Looks better than it did anyway. Hopefully will last more than a couple of months as well.
Before I started:
[albumimg]467[/albumimg]
A distinct lack of paint behind the wheel
Jacked up the car on axle stands, removed the wheels and got busy.
Started to rub them down and found the rust was just starting to get at it:
(Click for bigger picture)
A bit of rubbing down:
[albumimg]370[/albumimg]
[albumimg]372[/albumimg]
A bit more work with the wet 'n' dry:
[albumimg]371[/albumimg]
Then gave it a coat in this:
[albumimg]379[/albumimg]
[albumimg]373[/albumimg]
Waited for that to dry - smoothed it out a bit and gave it another coat. Smoothed that with some finer wet 'n' dry and left it to cure for a couple of hours.
Then to the topcoat. I bought the Ford twin pack of paint and lacquer as IMO the paint colour is a better match than Halfords etc.
[albumimg]374[/albumimg]
Repeated a couple of times, leaving 30 minutes between coats. I then left the last coat until the next day as by now it was getting late. The paint looked fairly dark next to the original - was a bit worried about the match.
Next morning I put on the lacquer in a few thin coats and it brought the colour to a pretty good match:
[albumimg]375[/albumimg]
I then waited about 3 hours whilst the laquer hardened in the sunshine before fitting the mudflaps. Not going to get that all stone chipped again!
[albumimg]376[/albumimg]
And on the back as I think the car looks better balanced with mudflaps front and back rather than just front:
[albumimg]377[/albumimg]
Did a few rust spots around the car whilst I was waiting for primer / top coat / lacquer to dry:
Had to actually file most of the rust away on this one! Then Kurust:
[albumimg]378[/albumimg]
Then topcoat and lacquer.
Looks better than it did anyway. Hopefully will last more than a couple of months as well.
