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Jambo

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5th Jul 12 at 20:56

I mod to improve, not for the sake of the internet.

The picture of the black one is misleading as you cant make out the light. It will look home grown and dustbin bag tints.

Nothing wrong with the tango, if you want to be internet about it, orange is in. White indicators are sooo 2003

BeetleGav

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5th Jul 12 at 21:09

i stand by what i said ages ago. keep the orange indicators

Ian W

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5th Jul 12 at 22:12

I always thought the orange looked OK

djgritt

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6th Jul 12 at 11:10

Orange looks good on this.

Indicators - Orange or Clear = Yes. Black = No.

Ben G

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7th Jul 12 at 20:48

Find me clears then

De-steve'd my kidney grilles today. Had just finished spraying on the 3re coat of plastikote and let it dry, picked one up and dropped it onto the other

now I need to flat and spray them again.

Matt black looks so much less chavvy then carbon fibre vinyl anyway.

Ben G

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14th Jul 12 at 07:09

woke up after about 3.5 hours sleep to bid on this and ended up winning. paid a little more than i wanted to but i wasn't going to lose it after i had got up out of bed for it

black surround, clear indicator

i already had this one in the garage so i just need to open it up and paint the surround black. hopefully that shouldnt be too difficult as it's already been opened up and resealed.

Firestate88

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14th Jul 12 at 09:45

should look good, can't wait to see it all done

taylorboosh

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14th Jul 12 at 15:53

Can't believe you waited up... Never heard of a bid sniper

Darryl H

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14th Jul 12 at 16:12

What's the difference between the two lights Ben? or am I being blind?

It'll be an improvement imo

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Ben G

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14th Jul 12 at 19:29

quote:
Originally posted by john-d
Can't believe you waited up... Never heard of a bid sniper

heard of them, but unsure how they work.

i didn't wait up though

i went to sleep at about 4am and woke up at 7:50am

darryl - the 2 clear lights are different in that one has a silver surround and the other has a black surround. i will be opening them both up and spraying the surrounds matt black, then putting some mirror tint film over the bottom clear indicator bit (just to get rid of the orange bulb housing shining through), then re-sealing.

Firestate88

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14th Jul 12 at 19:50

can't you swap the orange bulb for a silvertec bulb? would get rid of the orange bulb that way?

Ben G

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14th Jul 12 at 19:58

unfortunately no

it's a clear bulb with an orange oval glass housing inside. i may be able to get the orange bit out, but i'm not 100% sure yet.

Firestate88

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14th Jul 12 at 20:52

oooohh i know what you mean, hopefully when you take it apart you can take that part out, bloody germans don't make anything easy anymore

taylorboosh

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14th Jul 12 at 20:55

Don't break em

Ben G

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14th Jul 12 at 21:12

they don't seem to difficult to take apart tbh. the silver one i bought had already been resealed so i'm going to try and cut it open with a stanley knife tomorrow to get an idea of how it all comes out.

i only really need the clear indicator bit (it's a seperate piece of plastic inside the headlight housing) so as long as i don't break that, i can use it in my existing tango headlights.

Ben G

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15th Jul 12 at 17:17

these kidney grilles are driving me mad.

cleaned the car today and just a week after spraying them with plastikote, there were 2 stone chip marks on the surrounds (chrome showing through).

that was after 3 coats aswell

so going to spray another few coats on. if it chips again, they're getting fucked off in favour of some black plastic ebay ones.

Jon_C

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15th Jul 12 at 17:38

Get some vinyl and wrap them. Much easier

taylorboosh

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15th Jul 12 at 18:28

I have been wrapping BMW bits today

Phil W

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15th Jul 12 at 18:45

Try Plastidip.

Ben G

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15th Jul 12 at 19:33

quote:
Originally posted by Jon_C
Get some vinyl and wrap them. Much easier

i did wrap them in carbon fibre vinyl mate, but water managed to get under it and lift it.

i tried matte black vinyl before and it wasn't as flexible as the carbon stuff, so came out shocking.

phil - that's the next one to try after plastikote

only used this as it was cheap from b&q.

Ben G

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15th Jul 12 at 21:06

much better:

ignore the state of the garage floor

it's getting redone when the puma's sorted.

taylorboosh

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15th Jul 12 at 22:03

Why not just use spray paint

Ben G

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15th Jul 12 at 22:13

used spray paint last time, stone chips galore after a couple of days. this is a lot tougher.

Ben G

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17th Jul 12 at 08:47

cleaned the roof at the weekend and it's supposed to be grey according to the spec list, but it's more green.

it's not mould, it seems as if it's just faded quite bad.

decided to take the plunge and buy this:

which does this:

hopefully it'll turn my green roof either black or dark grey as it's a dye.

won't be done for a couple of weeks though as i'm going away.

[Edited on 17-07-2012 by Ben G]

Tomnova16

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17th Jul 12 at 10:42

its all in the prep ben, needs a good key up first, get some 400 grit on there first

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