Painting

[lewis]

I'm wanting to paint the shiny metalic looking grill on the front of the facelift.

The question is, how do you paint it? What sort of preping will it need? Sand down as usual....?

Any help would be grateful, imo the silver shiny grill is awful and it needs a respray!

Thanks guys

 

[lewis]

 

[paddymarsden]

sand it down properly

use spray paint for this

first prime it (2 - 3 layers)

then what ever colour you want

done

 

[scottish-sr]

As paddy said, you might need to laquer it though, depends on the paint. If your buying from Halfrauds then check the wee book there, it will tell you if you need laquer or not. Only other thing is take your time and dont rush it.

 

[Ed]

If you use a metalic you need laquer. Simple as that!

 

[lewis]

Okay guys, started working on it.....its not in the car at the moment, are there any problems with running about without the part in the car?

Cheers!

 

[paddymarsden]

naaaaa theres no problem with bits off your car lol, my door cards and front grills were off my car for 6 days solid,

 

[p11sr20]

for the best and CHEAPER paint forget halfrauds, get your paint code from under the bonnet and go to your local nissan dealer. The colour match will be better and comes with laquer if metallic.My brother Silver_si got his from there to do his wifes front grills. first he removed the cut out the middle bar then meshed them then painted them and did the same with his.photos of his grills before paint can be found in a thread you started titled "Mesh Grill"

 

[lewis]

Off to mcdonalds we go......nice one paddy (Y)!

 

[JayY]

for the best and CHEAPER paint forget halfrauds, get your paint code from under the bonnet and go to your local nissan dealer. The colour match will be better and comes with laquer if metallic.My brother Silver_si got his from there to do his wifes front grills. first he removed the cut out the middle bar then meshed them then painted them and did the same with his.photos of his grills before paint can be found in a thread you started titled "Mesh Grill"

Very good advice. I would always recommend people who needs spary for a job like this to always go to Nissan. Not to expensive either surprisingly

 

[rlees85]

when using nissan paint do you still need primer? (im going for yes...)

 

[Layla]

there was a chrome section for sale on here nto so long ago... cant find it atm but will link when i do!

 

[lewis]

Ended up doing a bit of this today......just done this first coat of primer.

I cut the middle piece out and fibreglassed it over :

Here is a pic after I sanded down one of the grill sections:

After one coat of primer: