Painting sidestrips and bumpers - Ford Forums

03-11-2003, 22:22

I was thinking of painting my sidestrips and bumbers stark white to match the rest of my car. Then placing a chrome or similar coloured strip where the current light grey one is. What do you think? Also what is the best way to go about painting them? If someone else has done something similar to their car can u post some pics?

Cheers

NCGhia · 03-11-2003, 22:43

My Chrome strips have all gone the way of the dog's breakfast. So I'm pulling them off to and painting a strip (not sure what colour yet) in place of them. I have no intention of selling the car and I have in the E-series, the chrome strips aren't worth the money. Just an opinion, but I'd avoid putting chrome strips on.

03-11-2003, 22:46

do you have a pic of your car...im interested to see what they do look like

NCGhia · 03-11-2003, 22:48

Not here, did you want to see what they are like now (I haven't painted them yet)?

03-11-2003, 22:52

Yeah i want to see what people have done to their cars just to see what looks best

SiX_iN_a_RoW · 03-11-2003, 23:45

Check out what ON_ICE has done to his car, I will going down a similar path with mine, be sure to do your door handles as well as it looks much cleaner

http://www.eafalcon.com/pictures/memberscars/index.htm

03-11-2003, 23:54

that looks mad. thats what i was thinking of doing. I see that the mirrors arent colour coded but it still looks heaps good

SiX_iN_a_RoW · 03-12-2003, 00:03

They are colour coded, but only the outer shell, I would suggest NOT painting the whole thing as IMO it looks a little "cheap" <- obvious lack of a better word

03-12-2003, 00:19

Ok. How would i go about painting all this plastic (bumbers, side strip, door handles). What sort of paint do i need and how would i go about getting these parts off the car so i can paint them

Jamie · 03-12-2003, 00:29

and how much roughly? (Im considering this too, just so it looks like the stock multi point paint job. I hate the grey bumpers.. .grr)