Changing colour - yellow to black
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Changing colour - yellow to black
Greasytrucker
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Probably not unless you want it to look very bad, painting a car is not as simple as you might think. In this day and age it’s often cheaper to get it vinyl wrapped, this is also reversible if you wanted to go back to yellow at a later date
Matt Quinn
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Not unless you've spent years perfecting the art of spraying... Maybe a 3-4 year apprenticeship followed by a few years experience. Then there's all the gear; compressor, quality guns, mixing equipment, oven etc. And the prep.
Giving an old banger or a beaten up van a quick blow over to cover up the fact it's a patchwork quilt on wheels is one thing... any kind of decent paint job is something completely different. - Black is one of the hardest colours to paint at all well; even for experienced professionals.
Price-wise... Wraps are about £1500-£2K upwards for a small-medium van...
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Greasytrucker
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Matt Quinn
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I was trying to sugar coat it a bit!
...One could certainly try that at home
maybe using some sort of epoxy lacquer to make it stick; should result in something that looks like a sponge finger on wheels; some might say (in a Jeremy Clarkson voice) a 'a tasty motor' - with a nice cup of tea at least. This strategy would almost-certainly be successful in drawing attention away from the sags, runs and ripples that an inexperienced sprayer with cheap equipment working on the drive will produce.Has the added advantage that the local cats and dogs will find it useful to scratch their posteriors on if we get a nice hot summer...
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Cornish Ian
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As Matt says, black is hard to get right, it looks great when it’s applied perfectly on a perfect surface but I would agree it’s certainly not a DIY job.
Also bear in mind any dirt shows up much more on black than the lighter colours so unless you have the time and inclination to keep it clean think carefully before you go ahead.
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