Cuda Al
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For about 10 year plus I have been wanting to freshen up the paint on my bolt through wheel covers. The convertible I recently purchased had these wheel covers on it but were fully polished and no argent accent on them. I took that set off the car and collected the set I have for my fastback along with a couple spares I had in the garage (I have more but not as nice). First thing I did was select 4 good units based on dings etc.
Next was to mask off the covers around the areas to be painted. I started with one of the covers that still had some paint on it so I could get a good idea on where the line should be. The first couple pockets took a little more time as I was trying to figure out how to manipulate the fine-line tape and the cover itself.
With all the sections masked off I needed to fill in the rest of the cover with regular masking tape.
With one cover done I went out to my paint booth and sprayed the first coat with OER Dark Argent
After that it was like an assembly line,
1. Do full fine-line
2. Go out put second coat of paint
3. Do secondary masking
4. Paint first coat.
5. Repeat till all 4 covers were done.
Alan
Next was to mask off the covers around the areas to be painted. I started with one of the covers that still had some paint on it so I could get a good idea on where the line should be. The first couple pockets took a little more time as I was trying to figure out how to manipulate the fine-line tape and the cover itself.
With all the sections masked off I needed to fill in the rest of the cover with regular masking tape.
With one cover done I went out to my paint booth and sprayed the first coat with OER Dark Argent
After that it was like an assembly line,
1. Do full fine-line
2. Go out put second coat of paint
3. Do secondary masking
4. Paint first coat.
5. Repeat till all 4 covers were done.
Alan
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