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Steve
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17th Aug 11 at 16:08   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
that you can order online eg ford moondust silver, paints4u maybe??
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17th Aug 11 at 16:11   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Halfrauds with trade card?
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depending on what its for i.e small repairs, i use £1store's finest. alloy wheel silver lol. almost identical to vaux star silver maybe a tint of blue depending how good your eyes are
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Halfrauds paint is a crap colour match.And so is the Carplan stuff you buy from motorfactors.

Ive heard paints4u are good.
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17th Aug 11 at 16:19   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Get any old shit for ur rear mate
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Theres an awesome place near me that mixes any colour into a rattle can for you for an alright price.

Send me some monies and i can send it over to you.
AndyCorsaSport
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At work we use Supertune for aerosol's if we need any. About £15 a tin, but great paint, decent match, and dries quickly.

Not sure if they have a site.
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I get all my paint from Fife Auto Paints.

£11 for a 400ml tin and the colour match is identical.They mix it while you wait.
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My local poundshop never has any
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Have a look in your local Yellow pages for Automotive paint suppliers.

My way I use a company called Morelli's.

Not cheap but very good.

http://www.morelli.co.uk/
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17th Aug 11 at 19:36   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
thanks for suggestions
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not being funny steve but do you need a perfect colour match?
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17th Aug 11 at 19:41   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
not but i dont want something that will flake off easily, my experiences with halfords stuff is it flakes off very easily
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17th Aug 11 at 19:43   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
also halfords laquer tends to be misty and ends up looking patchy
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normally it goes misty because its not warm enough.
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i havent had any problems with it flaking neither. maybe you didnt prep it right
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probably spraying isnt one of my strong points im all up for getting halfords stuff as i get trade and its cheapish spose i could try a bit and see how it goes

whats the score with prep? degrease, will it need sanding etc?
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Don't get Halfords laquer if you want any sort of decent shine.Its flat as fuk.
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so could just get halfords colour and somethiing else laquer
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wonder if ford do tins of laquer bet they do, renault used to
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im not the best person to give advice but heres what i done. go over with your fingers to feel for any rough spots and sand them back, then clean it up with panel wipe. few coats of primer with decent drying time in between. lightly wet sand that back with 1200. panel wipe again then lay some colour down in the same fashion. give the base colour about a day to dry then go over with laquer. best to warm the tins up in a bucket of warm water first. i tend to spray the laquer slightly thicker than most people do. i found if you do light coats it doesnt look properly shiney
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17th Aug 11 at 19:57   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
sound that sounds good jake

how much drying time between primer and colour
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between 20 and 30mins depends how thick the layers are. corsasport21 has a point about halfords laquer, but if you lay it on slighty thicker you do get a decent shine and it flows better once its on the panel, but dont go mad
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and the same drying time between layers of primer?
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i think its the same, it does recommend drying times on the tin though.

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