13-09-2015, 08:03 AM
The boot lid on my phase 1 is pretty horrible. The metallic paint is faded, some of the clear's come off and there's a few dings where some Muppet has seemingly slammed the boot lid onto something hard below.
I've not tried getting a quote from any local spray painters (I'll explain why shortly) but I'm wondering if I should attempt it myself.
I have sprayed the occasional panel or bonnet before now but that was waaaaaaay back in the 1990's. It went ok.
I understand that preparation is everything and being only the boot lid, even someone with my lack of patience could do the prep work on that size panel.
I'm wondering if I should use spray cans (rattle cans I think you guys call 'em) but I'm concerned that the paint on my car has faded a bit since it was re-sprayed (not brilliantly but also not completely crappy) seemingly a few years ago before I bought it.
I've also got some rust coming through just to the rear of the door sills so I'm thinking that that would need doing soon-ish so I could use the boot lid as 'practice'.
The other thing I could do is hire or buy a semi-professional spray gun and go from there.
Has anyone here done your own paintwork? How did it go? What would you recommend I do?
The reason I'm not getting any quotes is because I'm also needing quite a bit of paint work done on my Toyota Soarer. The best price for bonnet and boot is $1000 (about 500 quid) so assuming I bite the bullet on that one, I won't have much money left for the 306.
I've not tried getting a quote from any local spray painters (I'll explain why shortly) but I'm wondering if I should attempt it myself.
I have sprayed the occasional panel or bonnet before now but that was waaaaaaay back in the 1990's. It went ok.
I understand that preparation is everything and being only the boot lid, even someone with my lack of patience could do the prep work on that size panel.
I'm wondering if I should use spray cans (rattle cans I think you guys call 'em) but I'm concerned that the paint on my car has faded a bit since it was re-sprayed (not brilliantly but also not completely crappy) seemingly a few years ago before I bought it.
I've also got some rust coming through just to the rear of the door sills so I'm thinking that that would need doing soon-ish so I could use the boot lid as 'practice'.
The other thing I could do is hire or buy a semi-professional spray gun and go from there.
Has anyone here done your own paintwork? How did it go? What would you recommend I do?
The reason I'm not getting any quotes is because I'm also needing quite a bit of paint work done on my Toyota Soarer. The best price for bonnet and boot is $1000 (about 500 quid) so assuming I bite the bullet on that one, I won't have much money left for the 306.