I had to touch up the plastic trim on my octavia door that some horrible person scratched it yesterday. Motor World mixed the paint for me you need the colour code. Halfords do it but the guy in motor world was more help (looked it up for me, from the name of the colour and confirmed I was looking at the colour code in my book). Can only tell if you get on your knees to look closely.

I sprayed the wings on my old Ford Cortina with spray cans years ago didn't look too bad but was an old car was happy with my job . It won't look as good. Its how to make it shinny thats the problem. If you are going to do it your self buy or rent a spray gun and research how to do it properly. Good luck

It's perfectly possible to get a good finish with spraycans, but it takes ages to get it right.

Paints4u are pretty good and will mix paints to code.

Im surprised no-one said this already. Preparation is key! I've spray'd something in gold before, as an experiment one part was done in my usual "it'll do" way.. the other took 2-3 times as long (nearly a week!!).

Same paint same material and difference was unbelievable really.. the one I took nearly a week on I did first (obviously) and colour was so deep it looked like it came out of the factory. The other I took about 2 days..? the depth of it was much more shallow..

So I basically just followed the advice on what internet told me - clean dust free place, wet and dry every layer, let each layer to dry (I left 24hrs or near enough for each layer).

If worse comes to worse paint it in black or CF vinyl

Spammer Holy Thread revival!

Im surprised no-one said this already. .....

'05 March 2004[/b] - 11:44' timestamp='1078483468' post='101772']

Posted 05 March 2004 - 11:44

Edited 5 October, 201015 yr by Gizmo68

CHRIST! This was a long time ago! haha! From memory I did end up getting the parts painted as part of a repair job on a company car that was damaged for the (then) company I worked for....

The mongrel had only been in my possession about a month when I started this thread and I've had it SIX AND A HALF years now!

Lol why do people keep digging these threads up and I keep posting on them..

Go into Halfords and tell them you want some diamond metallic silver paint for a Skoda in a form which is suitable for use with a compressor. They should be able to sort you out, and if they can't then they're a bunch of chimps...

Rob.

I thought popular opinion was that they are a bunch of chimp's ROFL

I thought popular opinion was that they are a bunch of chimp's ROFL

It was six and a half years ago, and still is now

Over 10 years ago I bought big bumpers for my mk2 golf and sprayed them myself. After a false start (rushed it and did it too thick per coat), after just a bit of compounding the finish was as good as OEM. Dead easy really. It was white though, not metallic silver.