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DIY painting a front lip
Hit some road debris today and it knocked loose my front lip a bit. Since I need to take it off anyways, I figure I might as well repaint the thing since it's a bit faded as it's made of poly. Just wondering what type of paint you guys have had success with. Was thinking of just using plastidip or something but it seems like that would peel easily especially since I scrape everywhere.
Lip will be painted black.
TIA
kyleyap
07-26-2012, 05:21 PM
I just painted mine with bumper paint
koukimonst3r
07-26-2012, 06:05 PM
I painted my zenki lip with just black primer and looked good!
dhari
07-26-2012, 06:07 PM
plasti dip is quite rugged so a few good coats should do the trick
ToddPacker
07-26-2012, 06:29 PM
sand with 600
primer x4 coats
basecoat x4 coats
clearcoat x2 (if gloss finish)
Limitless
07-26-2012, 07:22 PM
If you're planning to scrape the lip then you should stay away from plastidip, it'll rip for sure.
+1 for black primer if you want a flat black
kakucaekz
07-26-2012, 08:14 PM
Black primer looks great as flat black. I did my lip in that, but then changed my mind and decided to paint it body colour, so I redid the primer in grey.
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk262/RDazr/Toyota%20MR2/DSC01049.jpg
Don't pay attention to my makeshift saw horses thingies :P
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