civic blak guard thing painting

**Fr3aKi3** · 13-05-2006 09:50 AM

hey pocketrocket,

I'm planning to do a DIY colour coding as well, what colour was your car and what primer did you use? From what i've read different primer (colour) will have different effects on the final colour.

My car's metallic green and i think i'm meant to use a grey primer instead of white, i'll have to double check this though.

**pocketrocket** · 13-05-2006 10:20 AM

my car is white, the brand of paint i choose to use is called "Powerplus", its more expensive then other automotive paints in the shops but I havent had any problems with using this brand at all compared to the 2 dollar cans, as the 2 dollar cans sprayed a wierd confetti strain and ruined the whole finish when i used it once, so never again lol.

Ive had a problem with matching my car, so far in a month Ive resprayed my lip about 5 or 6 times to match lol. Friends say it might be the undercoat (primer) that brings out the final top layer and it can alter the colour in the end. For my Lip i had big problems with matching colours and i just used the white primer that was already on the fibreglass lip, ive never tried grey or any other colour, maybe i shouldve.

But for my side strips i just sanded them down and used a plastic primer on it. Plastic primer is clear like a clearcoat instead of white or grey, and the base colour of the side strips were gunmetal or dark grey cause they were stock eg strips and the sidestrips turned out amazing, almost perfect.

So i would say go for a dark colour undercoat like grey and give that a try cause the white that was on my lip gave me nothing but problems. Hope that helps. And something my friend told me which i'm abit lost about is that he told me to try a pink undercoat as this will give the best gloss finish, I dunno about that lol, sounds wierd to me. I'll post a pic of my car as it is now to show you how my car looks colour coded, and no i wont paint my side skirts *headaches*.

**pocketrocket** · 13-05-2006 10:32 AM

here it is the beast and how the colour ended up.

**spacepants_fb** · 13-05-2006 11:20 AM

Not too shabby at all pocket rocket. Oh and DOHCTR Coopz, I'm in Sydney, sefton area if anyone knows where that is! Mugeneration, when u say skirts, are they just the side skirts or all of them including the front and the rear? Got any pics? Man, I thought I was over the whole spending on cars thing, but I guess I'm not. After this comes the audio install, just the other day put in a vti dash with tacho and reverse indiglo gauges...very nice to look at during night time...wish I didn't have to go to bed and just keep on driving! Money, money, money...