My effort after 30mins by hand, with only Meguires 85.. So not exactly metal polish haha!

My effort after 30mins by hand, with only Meguires 85.. So not exactly metal polish haha!

Very nice well done

Looks good

Looks good

Thought I recognised that pic

Plastic primed the cover after masking of the smalle rectangular parts and the brand badge then rattle canned it. The only thing if your thinking of doing it yourself is make sure the paintsnfully hardened before refitting it as road grime ie sand grains will sink into it if it's not fully dried/hardened.

The heat shield was a nightmare! Did it with "extreme temperature paint" due to it being so close to the turbo, prepped it right etc and it flaked so cleaned it back to the metal and got some good old faithful Hammerite smooth and fired it on, few months on and it's still 100%.

Due to the colour of the car I fitted a black coolant expansion cap and for the washer bottle cap to rid the bay of the last of the blue used a black vinyl paint often used for interior trims.

The idea was to keep it inline with the white/black paintwork & red clippers/seat colour.

And below how it looked at DC12.5 in Wishaw

Hope you don't mind - felt it was deserving of a wider audience :yes:.

It looks like the previous owner of my vRS painted his cover black, but badly. What can I use to strip the paint as Nitromors would surely melt the plastic?

White spirit would be alright I guess? or a gel type paint remover should be ok if you leave it to soak.