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Should I Paint My Frontbar With A $5 Spray Can?

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kelumzi

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gday, very happy to have joined SAU

a week ago I ordered vertex bodykit and front mount intercooler to assemble myself

i've already installed the front mount and frontbar, my problem is

got no money to paint it, and already considered painting the entire car a different colour

the car is black, kits primed ready for paint, its in a slight cream colour, should I?

paint it black with 5 dollar spray cans, so it doesn't look stupid?

or leave it as (frontbar in cream colour) and wait till next year?

if you got other suggestions please

cheers guys, much apperciated

OKBANANA Grand Master

OKBANANA

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gday, very happy to have joined SAU

a week ago I ordered vertex bodykit and front mount intercooler to assemble myself

i've already installed the front mount and frontbar, my problem is

got no money to paint it, and already considered painting the entire car a different colour

the car is black, kits primed ready for paint, its in a slight cream colour, should I?

paint it black with 5 dollar spray cans, so it doesn't look stupid?

or leave it as (frontbar in cream colour) and wait till next year?

if you got other suggestions please

cheers guys, much apperciated

Leave your standard frontbar on there until you can afford to respray it the same colour as your car.

You probably should of savedup enough for both the bodykit and frontbar before you brought it. :rofl:

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MR DMD

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gday, very happy to have joined SAU

a week ago I ordered vertex bodykit and front mount intercooler to assemble myself

i've already installed the front mount and frontbar, my problem is

got no money to paint it, and already considered painting the entire car a different colour

the car is black, kits primed ready for paint, its in a slight cream colour, should I?

paint it black with 5 dollar spray cans, so it doesn't look stupid?

or leave it as (frontbar in cream colour) and wait till next year?

if you got other suggestions please

cheers guys, much apperciated

No dont do it. It will cause more work for the guy that is painting it and will cost more. Just leave the standard on until you get enough cash. Makes you save faster and get the job done.

kelumzi Community Regular

kelumzi

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thank's a lot guys, i will not be using 5 dollar spray cans !! lol

i know aye, should have saved up d'oh... saving up for this kit was hard enough

anyway, i was going to use the front mount money to spray it, but when i saw that kit at the shop, it said "buy me im cheap"!!

i will save up for this respray, may not spray the entire car after all...

prices on bodykit respray (frontbar, sideskirts, rearbar) about $600?

*pearl black

Alien Grand Master

Alien

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you can get a fair/good (not immaculate) result if you really know what you are doing. I think its essential to have perfect even strokes and do each layer very lightly. Then shitloads of clear afterwards to smooth out edges. Then buff/wax. Can't say I've tried it tho =)

actually yeah I can! I tested this method before on old side skirts in gun metal grey... and they turned out ok considering I was not doing a very good job and not enough clear and no buff afterwards.

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DECIM8 Grand Master

DECIM8

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seriously nothing beats a 2pak paint job mate.. Yes you will do an ALRIGHT job on the front bar.. But if you want it to one day match the rest of the car ur going to have to strip that shit job you did!

If anything buy the paint, a compressor and air gun and do it like that .. sanding between coats with 2000grit paper and layering the top with a shitload of clear and buff it till its balld!

Otherwise you can save up $1000 and get a whole kit sprayed.. prob less if you find a cheaper guy and you can handle a half decent go!

may even look at a practice spray booth for learners!

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seriously nothing beats a 2pak paint job mate.. Yes you will do an ALRIGHT job on the front bar.. But if you want it to one day match the rest of the car ur going to have to strip that shit job you did!

If anything buy the paint, a compressor and air gun and do it like that .. sanding between coats with 2000grit paper and layering the top with a shitload of clear and buff it till its balld!

Otherwise you can save up $1000 and get a whole kit sprayed.. prob less if you find a cheaper guy and you can handle a half decent go!

may even look at a practice spray booth for learners!

spray painting is good fun if you have time and place to do it at - its quite a usefull skill

mass_iv Grand Master

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lol yeh man save up... i have an air compressor and a fairly good spray gun, and believe me it aint easy to get right... iv done a few and still get the odd runs or drips on the kits.... so i say just save up and do it right.... looks 1000 times better in the end

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tjandriesen Proficient

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I have a pearl white 'line and have a problems with the bottom lip part scraping the street (like most). I took it off, sanded it down, and painted it matte black (spraycan). Look very JDMish nice and when it gets scraped a bit, is extremely easy to touch up. Don't think I would do the whole front though.

Adz2332 Grand Master

Adz2332

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Also if you do wanna do it urself in this sorta way dont use a $5 spray can. Go to car paint supplier, they can colour match your car and put it in a pressure pack. at least this way you are starting with the right colour for your car and are using real car paint aswell

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clakka

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I went to the local paint shop and got the paint colour matched and put in spray cans...used about 8 full cans (could have been 6 but was 1st time spraying anything substantial so had a few stuff ups).

They painted my front and rear bars and my side skirts and only cost like $120 and turned out tops and will last till the whole car gets sprayed...

If you have a day free and want to try something new I would recommend it...if it looks bad you have only wasted like $30 so no real issue and a bad paintt job in the right colour looks better than grey primer anyday.

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