 stripping and painting the fog light covers, type of plastic/anybody ever stripped and painted these? |
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| 914 RZ-1 |
 Sep 5 2017, 07:09 PM
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Porsche Padawan  Group: Members Posts: 683 Joined: 17-December 14 From: Santa Clarita, CA Member No.: 18,230 Region Association: Southern California  |
1. What kind of plastic are the foglight covers?
2. Best way to get what appears to be the rattle can paint off? In researching how to get the paint off the plastic foglight grills I have found the following: 1. vegetable oil 2. nail polish remover 3. oven cleaner 4. DOT 3 brake fluid 5. Testors Easy Lift-Off 6. Castrol Superclean 7. Simple Green 8. isopropyl alcohol 9. Purple Power 10. Windex ( for acrylic paint) 11. Tamiya Lacquer thinner or Gunze Mr. Color Thinner 12. bumper stripper 13. blast with baking soda 14. WD-40 |
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| 914Sixer |
Sep 5 2017, 07:45 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 8,988 Joined: 17-January 05 From: San Angelo Texas Member No.: 3,457 Region Association: Southwest Region 
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Buy new ones and relive yourself of a lot of wasted time and elbow grease.
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| 76-914 |
Sep 5 2017, 07:49 PM
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Repeat Offender & Resident Subaru Antagonist Group: Members Posts: 13,611 Joined: 23-January 09 From: Temecula, CA Member No.: 9,964 Region Association: Southern California
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I would lightly sand them then prime and paint. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
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| porschetub |
Sep 5 2017, 07:56 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,725 Joined: 25-July 15 From: New Zealand Member No.: 18,995 Region Association: None |
Sand with 3m pad and some fine drylube sandpaper,clean with paint prep degreaser and topcoat with what ever colour you like,hard things to paint but do it slowly a bit @ a time over a reasonable period of time.
If you think it might not stick buy a plastic primer ok. Good luck (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer.gif) |
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| PanelBilly |
Sep 5 2017, 08:31 PM
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914 Guru Group: Members Posts: 5,840 Joined: 23-July 06 From: Kent, Wa Member No.: 6,488 Region Association: Pacific Northwest
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Plastic is old and it's seen plenty of contaminates. Buy new ones.
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| db9146 |
Sep 6 2017, 05:28 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 953 Joined: 21-December 04 From: Atlanta, GA Member No.: 3,315 Region Association: None
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My recent experience with soda blasting says if that works really well. I bought an L cheapo $20 handheld blaster from Harbor freight and went through about 20 boxes of baking soda on a small project and it worked like a charm. It also leaves and I surface I want you wipe down is good for painting.
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