Respray and Trim Questions

[Roxylife]

Hi all,

With a respray looming for my car next year, I have a few questions hopefully you can help with.

1). Having removed the side trims in readyness as carefully as I could not to distort them... How easily are these re-fitted straight without looking wobbly etc!? - Whats best to use to re-fit them? Double sided tape or sikaflex etc?

2). The windscreen and side glass on the car is all original so i'd like to keep it that way, what the best method for removing the rear quarter window and more importantly the screen!

3). As the car is a GTX it has the Satin black bodykit. I want to get this painted too, along with the bumpers is there a colour code for it? - And how do you go about matching the colour with the rubbery lower door moulding. As I dont want to have the kit sprayed if the door mouldings won't match. I'm assuming you can't paint them as they arnt plastic?!

Thanks in advance

Henry

[bengould]

Not of much use, but

1; Don't know

2; Get inside the car and push, Hard. For the rears I lay on the back seat and used my feet starting in the Front top corner of the window. For the windscreen I took the seats out and crouched with my shoulder against the top of the screen. Both came out much easier than I expected but you do need to be pretty firm with them.

3; Don't know. I'm not 100% sure they are painted from the factory, the standard finish is more like a vinyl wrap than a paint.

Ben.

[monzajake]

If you bend the bump / side trims clamp them in a couple of bits of timber 2x2 2x1 & and leave them on the rad. The straighten out. Just done my gutter trims this way and very happy.

Heat the car up and ease them out. Might need a little help woth a tool or two.
Some painters give you an option of wiring the rubbers up (so to spray under them) or removing the glass on a basis if breaks
He's not down for replacing it. Do you or any of your mate's know anyone in the car glass business ie auto glass pr national windscreens. Most are happy with a drink for 10 mins work.

Etching primer I think is used for a key on a rubber surface. But as rubber expands and contracts with heat I wouldn't be surprised if faults start with cracking etc.

The sparyer should give you good / correct answers to the questions.

[essextom]

1. Use double sided tape to replace the strips. I'd recommend a good quality 3m roll.

2. Phone your local independent mobile windscreen fitter. I got quoted £70 to remove all the windows (accept doors) and to replace after the re-paint. Saves buggering about yourself and it's a lot more likely not to get anything damaged.

3. To paint textured plastic you need to spray with a decent plastic primer, then paint with high build primer ( decent thick coats to take up all the texture) then rub it down flat and paint as usuall. For flexible plastic parts you will have to add a rubberising addative to all the paints which slows the paint to flex. Not sure from post if you wanted to paint them all black or body colour. If you were to paint all satin black then you'd just have to use a plastic primer and then satin black paint.

[GTXTRA]

Hi H, you might be better off tracking down some clean arches - I've retained the best bits off the now kitless BRM to use on the 16V when I ever get around to painting that car again.

The bodykits came in either satin black already or a 'primed' version as fitted to the colour coded cars.

Confirming - the rear windows do pop out with some gentle persuasion and Tim has removed the screen on the 16v twice for me over the years with some subtle boot action believe it or not. Trust someone handy with screens as suggested by the chaps.

[Nate]

i've removed side windows using a lot of straight screwdrivers. push between glass and rubber to fold the ruber out of the way while someone pushes on the window.

never managed to get a screen out without breaking it. it's not that it's hard, i'm just useless at it. when you do yours, beware the barbs on the bottom of the windscreen aperture. very easy to tear the ruber seal with them.

body kit should be stuck on with your preferred brand of black snot (sikaflex, tiger seal etc. personally i don't like paying for a name, and use a generic unbranded black snot available from all popular internet auction sites for a couple of quid a tube)

yes, the rubber bits can be painted. plastic primer then paint as normal. i did the ones on frankenrocco using rattle cans. once they are fitted to the doors, they don't actually move, so you don't need to worry about the paint bending, cracking and falling off