Im gonna be doing some painting on the plastic(grey) fender and bumper what is a good sand grit to use that will make it very smooth? Ill prolly use some black bumper paint and i'll be putting in fog lights
those blue lights are ruined they got too much moisture to em.

60-200 to ruff it up for primer, 400-800 to smooth before paint, and i choose to use 1500-3000 to smooth the paint and clear coat i used 2000-4000 grit and use a nice polishing compound after the clear has dried 24 hours

thanks i'll prolly do it this weekend; i'm j/w where did you get that grill at?

haha.. i made it, will have a write up on how to do it in the next few weeks when i'm not too lazy to just write it up!

yea i got bored one day and thought about it; all ya really gotta do is cut out the inside and bondo some of the pieces and it would look awsome

glass is stronger and doesnt recess in if you do it right... ill have a write up done soon.. maybe ill do aother grille and sell it when i'm done so i got something good to get pictures of while i do it cuz i didnt take much when i did mine

If you can get a piece of the plastic, you can plastic weld it.

do you suggest Mig, Tig or maybe some JB Weld??? jus fucking w/ ya

no use a plastic welder they do make them. i would just shoot some adhesion promotor on it(after u get all the armor all and crap off) then spray away. when u sandit u dont get in the lil spots between the texture and it looks like dog wanus. also ull scratch the the badger out of it.

yer grille really is unique dude..i like it, good job...i've never really noticed it till now

I'm actually good at using one. I use it all the time at my work. It's not too bad to use.

i c.. well i got no access to one that i know of unless i start asking around.. but the fiberglass route works just as well and i have all the stuff laying around to do another grille if i wanted... which will prob happen when i do the "write-up" on it in the next few weeks here

The wife smashed into another car - again - and after looking it over, I am doing the repairs myself and pocketing the difference. Mostly, I am simply replacing a few front end parts like head light assembly, turn indicator, bumper, as well as the grille and headlight trim strip which are both plastic.

My D1 is Alpine White, and I need to paint them both. My plan is to acquire some of the matched aerosol paint from one of the web suppliers and do it myself. Does anyone know if these plastic parts come pre-primed from Rover? If not, do I need the special primer that adheres to plastic? By the time I buy the paint, clear coat, and primer, the paint is getting expensive.

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