Repainting my MR kit

kapeesh43

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Hey so.... I got given a set of MR side skirts and pods, but the blue is a slight lighter blue than my car. I got my colour code and got some paint mixed, however all i'm after is - Do i need to use a coloured primer (grey etc) to cover up the old blue and put the new blue on? Or because they're such similar colours, would I get away with using a clear primer and spraying the new blue straight over the top?
Cheers
 
Regardless you need to use a primer, so the easiest and best way to know that your kit will turn out the right colour is to use a coloured primer. Light grey or white or light yellow will be fine. 5+ coats of colour and 3+ coats of clear.

Sand it down, prime it, sand it down, colour it, sand it down, clear coat. Polish it after 2 days.
 
rigby said:
Regardless you need to use a primer, so the easiest and best way to know that your kit will turn out the right colour is to use a coloured primer. Light grey or white or light yellow will be fine. 5+ coats of colour and 3+ coats of clear.

Sand it down, prime it, sand it down, colour it, sand it down, clear coat. Polish it after 2 days.
exactly that your car is the same colour as mine make sure you do alot of coats of colour, not all at once of tho give it time to go tacky between coats this blue can be a bit tricky cos its so metalic but if you do like 5 layers you will be fine most of my car is home job spray paint
 
Also, make sure you do thin layers of the blue, start of with a mist and get slightly heavier with each coat. Dont do it to thick in one pass because the metallic flecks will run and parts will look more metallic than others.
 
I use the Motospray Primer Surfacer. Its about $12 a can and you can get it in a big tin if your using a gun. It gives you pretty good results
 
Thanks so much for your input :) I've just finished sanding/priming/painting the pods and just about to start paintin the side skirts.
When i hold the pods up to the side of my car it still looks like a slight colour difference, the paint i got mixed seems more purple than blue. But i'm hoping with the clear coats on it will darken up a bit.....hopefully lol =\
I'll upload pics when i'm done :) thanks again
 
Yeah, they should shine up with the clear coat, then a few days after, lightly wet sand it and polish it up. Then they should be the same as the rest of the body.
 
Finished painting everything last night, went better than I expected :) Except for the clear coat lol -_- I forgot to sand before I put the clear on so it looked kind of blotchy in some spots. But I put a few more coats on, and just when it was starting to look good I ran out of clear lol. So I'm plannin on wetsanding lightly after a few days and polishing them up.
But here are the before and afters anyway :) And one of the skirts propped up against my car to see how it's gonna look installed YAY

BEFORE
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AFTER
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Colour difference
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A bit of a polish and I think they'll turn out okay :) THanks so much for all your help!!
 
Looks good man. Throw some more clear on it before you give it a polish and it'll come up even nicer. Just rub it down with some wax n grease remover and then let it dry for 5mins and you can keep clearing them.
 
That looks really good, especially for your first attempt. Just throw some more coats of clear on them and they will come up nicely! are you going to get a front lip to go with it?
 
I'm on the hunt for a front lip as we speak, findin it really hard to come across one though that doesn't cost a million dollars -_- i'm leaning toward getting a civic EK lip coz they're way cheaper haha, and apparently they fit onto the CE's...but still not sure.
I'm fitting the kit tomorrow so i'll let you know how it goes :)
 
cost a million dollars?!
dont know where your lookin, but keep lookin

i got my MR bar (incl lip) for $80
 
Ces you got lucky man. Id say a full Mr bar with fogs n lip etc would be fetching 250 plus easy thats if you can find one and its not got broken tabs etc.then paint.
 
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