Matt H
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Registered: 11th Sep 01
Location: South Yorkshire
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Do I? 
I had to spray an arch recentley on my 2.0 & I just rubbed it down, gave it a few coats of primer & then sprayed with the paint. Looks OK & you can't tell the differnce.
That was carabic blue, this time its red paint.
Help! I wanna try & get it done today
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Dan A
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Registered: 16th Dec 05
Location: Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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No m8 you dont need to laquer it cos carabic blue and red paint are a close enough match 
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Matt H
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2 differant cars
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Mase
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no i didn't use laquer on flame red, but i noticed a small difference in colour cos obviously the original red had faded a little, but it didn't look too bad...
Mase
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Matt H
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The whole car will be getting T-cutted anyway, hoping there wont be too much differance 
If not I'll have it mopped.
Wont it fade quicker without laquer?
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Mase
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my mirrors and boot surround didn't....... well not that i noticed anyway.
Mase
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Mase
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I sprayed the mirrors:


and the boot lock surround:

The car had just been polished, so i had bought the colour out a bit more...
Mase
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Matt H
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Im gonna dig out the car cleaning stuff later on I think. Not looking forward to it
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drax
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laquer protects the paint.. like a film.
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Matt H
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I might laquer it then....
You rub it down in between layers yeah? On the laquer?
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ed
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You should have laquered the blue, but the red can just be colour sanded flat once you have fininshed...
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ed
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If you do laquer it though, leave the part in a warm room for 24 hours to cure the pait properly, then flat it out with some 1500 wet and dry using soapy water as a lubricant. Then polish it up using some cutting compound or Brasso.
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