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croak2012
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April 24, 2017, 06:44:31 pm »
Hi ,
Can you make old powder coat look good again? Not sure if they will look good if i paint o ver them with a paint brush. I could get them powder coated but not sure i would be able to put them back together with service.. thanks
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Paint brush will look ridiculous unless you're handy enough with it.
You have two options.
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Remove them, strip paint and redo the setup
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Mask off in situ and spray paint them with VHT which gives an even coat.
I've done mine twice in 4 years.
It's somewhere in my thread -
http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,89715.msg907250.html#msg907250
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I did the same as Luke, just sprayed over them I usually do my calipers once a year just after winter
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Thanks , so if i mask them off and sand them the spray paint will stick to the powder coating?
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I would sand the powder cost to give the paint something to adhere to
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Also, be very carefull of overspray. I had a friend who painted his scirocco calipers red. Wasn't particularly windy and he newspaper/masked off well. He still gets a red clay bar apaprently!
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How to do it...give it to a company who know what they are doing with them.
I'm lazy like that
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