So yesterday I had it all planned out, I was going to paint my engine cover and my battery cover the same color as my car. This is not as easy as I thought . First off I did not sand the battery cover. Second I picked up a cheap airbrush gun and the paint that I used all it did was run. So too make a long story short my battery cover now looks like shit ill post pics later. And I never started my engine cover thank god for that. So what I wanna know is for thoose who did this what paint did you use and what kinda prep did you do before painting the parts?

 

yikes...

not sure on the products. But painting- clean, sand, buff(smooth), clean (fix imperfections), paint x2, clear coat x2.

 

Im going to try this again tonight maybe but this time I will sand it down good and I will go with a midnight black metalic paint instead and its gonna be straight out of the can and ill hit it with a few coats of clear. This is the color I painted my mesh grille.

 

Damn, man! You're just full of issues lately. Winter getting to you?





IMHO, I think the engine bay looks better w/o the battery cover. I'd actually like to pull out the battery bucket or whatever it as altogether. I just don't want to have to reset everything after I do it.

 

i have an extra CL-S battery cover, brand new still in the plastic if you wanna pick it up off me. Let me know.

 

I have a battery cover too. maybe you can pratice painting on mine before you install it. In all seriousness though take your time with it prep it first and always add clear coats. I hope it turns out looking sharp

 

if you buy paint in cans by ounces, then you have to buy a reducer to make the paint process the best way, and make sure you prep it right, send down rough surface prime it , then hit it with paint mixed with reducer.(50/50)

 

Somewhere around here I have info from a company that will put factory paint in a spray can. All you need is the paint code. If you'd like this info let me know and I'll PM ya back with the info.

 

Actually, I've head of that. You should forget the PM's and post it up for all!

 

Ok guys Im at it again. Yeah lord helmet I have a case of the winter "Im so fucking bored out of my mind syndrome" Well I did it over a few minutes ago with the paint like I said it is coming out great. It was so nice I decided to do the engine cover also. Im happy so far but i only have put on 2 coats on the battery cover and one on the engine cover. Now I have to run back to home depot damn. ill post pics once everything is complete.

 

It's been awhile since I got this info, but I hope it still works.

Spray TouchUp

 

Nice info.
But guys im almost done and so far

 

Future reference. You may do those headlights.