Quote Originally Posted by shylaisghey View Post
yep go blue...idiot, as if you kerbed those 17" rims
I just looked back at this thread for the first time in ages. i LOLed at that. The rims are fine - not a mark

Anyway, decided to make a REAL improvement to the hood trim.
I'm gonna go ahead and share what I did cause of boredom. Don't take this crappy fix seriously as it's quite dodgy.

To overcome the 'reverting to stock' dilemma, I decided to spray straight over the black tape I used. I can hear everyone saying "wtfmanlulzwtf it wont stickz", but whatever. If it starts to chip or peel, I'll just redo it!

The original 'out of place' black taped trim:



Took it off the car, and decided to construct an overdone spraying area in the backyard pagola from about a billion pieces of old newspaper:

Fail at timesaving.


Here it is.



To stop unnecessary overspraying, I taped over the back of the thing with masking tape to protect the attaching points of the thing to the thing.



Because I was spraying on plastic tape, I wasn't really sure whether to sand and prime it. Being the noob that I am, I went ahead and did it anyway

After 2 coats of primer, 3 coats of paint (mixed at Autobahn in an aerosol spraycan) and a couple of coats of clearcoat (with random sanding inbetween) I was left with this:



This is the result after putting it back onto the car:




Much better.

Edit: Yes, after looking at that post again, I realise the car needs a wash. Bad.