Right, i've finally completed colour coding one side of my punter!

De-stripped aswell

Here are a few pictures:







Let me know what you think

I love it

looks proper nice, you can do mine now :devil:
actually want to do exactly the same to mine, taken the side strips off already, now want to colour code the handles, take the vinyl off between the windows and paint that plastic, did you take the plastic window trim off to paint it?

and get some abarth skirts

lol im after some skirts but need some money first

No i didnt take off the plastic vinl, just sanded it down alot with some high grade wet and dry, then just primed, painted and lacquered

so you painted that bit?.. not the bit holding in the rear window

Yup painted that

Took teh bit holding teh rear window off to paint it

ah, should've just it taken it off, as it's paint underneath, i'm going to because its starting to peel from behind the door and its cracking, did
you get matched paint from halfords?

Yep i did.

Yeah i did know there was paint underneath, but i wasnt sure what sort of condition it was in, and i dont think it is lacquered. decided to play it safe and paint the plastic to get a nice shiny finish, didnt know if it was going to work, turned out great

Looks really good, I wna do that too, but scared of messin it up lol

chances are the paint's in brand new condition, just as if you were to debadge, paint underneath things is always in better nick, specially on red, you can still read what they said on my car , i needs a respray :spin:

Trist said:

chances are the paint's in brand new condition, just as if you were to debadge, paint underneath things is always in better nick, specially on red, you can still read what they said on my car , i needs a respray :spin:

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Lol yeah that can happen alot with certain colours.. knew id be ok when i debadged mine and the paint was exactly the same:

Thinking about doing something to the front end aswell, either spray the bumper bits on either side and leave the middle section black, or spray the middle section and leave the bumpers. Seen them both, cant decide which one would look nicer on my car

i think the side bits would look good sprayed and the middle left black, together with the bump strip on the back bumper being sprayed too

Yeah thought about doing the rear bump strip, but wondered if it would maybe be a bit too much?

But if i tint my rear clusters i think it would look sweet :yum:

yeah tinted lights would look good,

i don't think it'd be too much green, the black plastic is a bit :yuck:, can't wait to have new front and rear bumpers fitted to get a smooth a look as possible

Trist said:

so you painted that bit?.. not the bit holding in the rear window

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on black ones you can just peal the vinyl off and u get lovely black paint underneath

wacko132 said:

Looks really good, I wna do that too, but scared of messin it up lol

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Its not that difficult to mess it up. Take your time to do it properly and you'll be fine

whats the best way to take the vinal off tho?

Ive started mine and its taken me a good half hour to remove the top quater.

i havent used anything yet ie hair dryer or wd40 (which i find works)

I always thorte it was a bit of plasitc covering a part they had not painted, but its the nice silver under it!!

Glad i got it in silver dosent fade that much :slayer::slayer::slayer::slayer::slayer:

i'd use a hairdryer real close to it and peel it off slowly, and thin any left over glue with white spirit and scrape it off, similar to rub strips

should be a easy job then, i dotn no about the white sprit tho ive always used wd40 lmfao wooks a treat and you dont have to worry about leavering it on to F**k your paint work up

just gotta remember to wipe it off, i use rubbing compound after having used it, does sod all because my paints so faded

lmfao the red dose tho, mine been silver after i de badged it there wasnt a trace of fading