SFQ - body kits

[barefoot]

The body kit on my GT is black.
I've seen other black ones & I've also seen body coloured ones.

Here's my question,
Did they come from the factory coloured or do folk paint them?

& if so, is it easy?
will a body shop know how to do it?
will it all flake off & look shite?

Thanks

[wasted]

Usually factory-painted; all Scalas and GT2s had body-coloured kits from a certain year onwards.

From what I've heard, the plastic on the black kits is a weird finish that doesn't take kindly to painting. Better off finding a set from a breaker or in the sale section on here.

[ianaudia4]

MK2 Storms and certain late GTX's came with body painted kit as well. What colour is your GT?

[barefoot]

The car is an '86 GT in silver.

It's been badly re-painted at some point in its life although its not rusty/rusting.
Any kind of paint from me is a long, long time away but I just thought that I'd ask
because I think that coloured bodykits & cars without the kits look curiously longer & nicer.

Odd really because 20 odd years ago when I had a Y registered GL on 13's
I thought the black kits & front fogs were the bollocks!

[fonzooorooo]

The cleaning stuff you apply to black plastic is usually silicon based. After years of rubbing that on, it'd take a lot of cleaning to get rid of every last trace.

[DannyH]

Some GTs's had a colour coded kit

My (now sadly defunct) '87 GTS was Flash Silver with a coded kit.

There might one out there for you?

that said a previously coded kit would probably easier to repaint than a b lack one?