door strips

[hakhawk]

ok, been comtemplating this for a while now, i hate the grey strips around my doors, and was thinking about buying berlina ones (chrome) to put on it, but that involves removing the cargo area windows. then i thought, hey, its just paint, and theyre made from alloy, so, off i went with some sand paper and wet n dry. i tell ya, that paints thick, better than the single layer of body paint.

heres a few quick shots of about 15 minutes work. its gonna take longer than that to finish though.

[HoZy]

NICE! Sexy sexy mate....

Cheers
MaT

[missvix]

The person that owned my car before me has painted mine matt black, just with a paint brush
looks crappy, cheap and nasty
I might have a go and see if mine come up good too
I think why they did it, is cause the rest of the trims are black also.
having chrome strips with black trims around the rest of the doors wouldn't look sappy would it?

That was 15 minutes worth :my:
gees, i might have to take a few days off work haha

[hakhawk]

lol, that was just me doing it casually for 15 minutes, but does it look dodge with black rubber, thats upto you, do it, its only going to cost you some sandpaper and polish, if it looks shit, least u can respray it, mask up everything and make it good. have a browse thru google iimages and look for calais with chrome trims

[missvix]

lol, that was just me doing it casually for 15 minutes, but does it look dodge with black rubber, thats upto you, do it, its only going to cost you some sandpaper and polish, if it looks shit, least u can respray it, mask up everything and make it good. have a browse thru google iimages and look for calais with chrome trims

nah, tried, it, looked sappy haha
now i am in the process of re-doing all of it!!
If i am not back on here by next week, I have lost my temper and have burnt the car haha
Just jokes as if

[hakhawk]

lol, im doing it coz im sick of the grey and cant be stuffed masking to spray it.

[vnberlwagon]

I've got a 1990 berlina wagon and mine doesn't have the chrome trim, doesn't make it go any better. Good on ya for trying something different, I have seen some of ur mod's.

[hakhawk]

i found out they came out on vp onwards and they were thin strips of chrome.

anyway, i got slack and didnt finish mine. but, i found out that paint stripper is a quicker and nicer way to get rid of the paint, if you can take them off the car. which i will be doing for new wagon.

you dont need chrome strips to make yours go better, you got a v8.

[Davelxhatch]

i painted my dodgy rubbers with black bumper paint (K&H) with a light sand came up like new!

[nathanVY]

hey do you know if you remove the paint on a vr execs window surrounds if it will come up chromeish like this?

[hakhawk]

nope, vr/s are different. you have to get vr/s chrome ones if you want chrome

[nathanVY]

damn. wouldve been easier lol.


thanks

[vk.jonno]

what grit are uusing? i sadedmy mates strips in about 5 minutes...