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Adrienne is making me drive up to Santa Clara this weekend (600 miles each way) and I couldn't bare the thought of trashing a week old paintjob
Adrienne is making me drive up to Santa Clara this weekend (600 miles each way) and I couldn't bare the thought of trashing a week old paintjob
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Hood and fenders aren't a fresh repaint, the hoods already pretty trashed from a few previous road trips. Leaving it open to the elements will give me an excuse to repaint it later
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funny you mention zebra stripes. THe shop that did my car had the new Ford 500 concept there all in zebra strips
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Originally Posted by njzprettyboy
its a common practice for show cars. ive seen people tape up cars on trailers...
done it to the hot rods a few times
only time I didn't do it I got this
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haha I do that all the time on the way to car shows that are more than an hour away.
this one was 7 hours away.
this was 6 hours
this one was 7 hours away.
this was 6 hours
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looks like he is heading out to autoX. A lot of autoX ppl do that to prevent paint chip when hitting a cone, and it does protect your paint extremely well..
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Originally Posted by CLpower
Adrienne is making me drive up to Santa Clara this weekend (600 miles each way) and I couldn't bare the thought of trashing a week old paintjob
Originally Posted by CLpower
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That was uncalled for...
Originally Posted by Magic Man
Unless you plan to drive it forever like that, it is stupid IMO
The paint isn't fully cured yet so its more prone to rock chips.
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wow, I thought I was the only one who tried this. A week after I got my body kit installed (5 or so years ago), my parents decide they want to drive to Michigan from NY. I taped up the entire body kit, mirrors, etc with some clear tape. This was the biggest mistake I made. It was so hard to take off. Everytime I pulled the tape off, it left behind the glue from the tape which was a b**ch to take off. It took me at least 20 hours in total to get all the tape off and I probably did more damage to it by rubbing it with wax/goo gone/etc than I would have if I had just driving without taping it up.
The funny thing was everytime someone passed us on the highway, they looked at the car, then looked at me like I was crazy (I guess I was :-)).
Anyway, hopefully, you used the right type of tape.
The funny thing was everytime someone passed us on the highway, they looked at the car, then looked at me like I was crazy (I guess I was :-)).
Anyway, hopefully, you used the right type of tape.
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Originally Posted by Black TL
wow, I thought I was the only one who tried this. A week after I got my body kit installed (5 or so years ago), my parents decide they want to drive to Michigan from NY. I taped up the entire body kit, mirrors, etc with some clear tape. This was the biggest mistake I made. It was so hard to take off. Everytime I pulled the tape off, it left behind the glue from the tape which was a b**ch to take off. It took me at least 20 hours in total to get all the tape off and I probably did more damage to it by rubbing it with wax/goo gone/etc than I would have if I had just driving without taping it up.
The funny thing was everytime someone passed us on the highway, they looked at the car, then looked at me like I was crazy (I guess I was :-)).
Anyway, hopefully, you used the right type of tape.
The funny thing was everytime someone passed us on the highway, they looked at the car, then looked at me like I was crazy (I guess I was :-)).
Anyway, hopefully, you used the right type of tape.
Never had more than a smaller 1 inch by 1 inch square of residue left and its normally right over the engine.
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Originally Posted by CCColtsicehockey
haha I do that all the time on the way to car shows that are more than an hour away.
this one was 7 hours away.
this one was 7 hours away.
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Originally Posted by mr5parkle
isn't that asking for a fix it ticket? i would only leave the front turning signals exposed, and obviously drive during the day only.
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Wait I have question, Dont you have to wait a month for the paint to breath before you put something on it? That is what my body shop said after I told them I wanted to put on a clear bra on the freshly painted bumper.
what is the name of that stuff and where did you get that?
what is the name of that stuff and where did you get that?
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I now drive an accord....
CCColtsicehockey I thought that car looked familiar. Ive seen it on the road a few times I think. Did you just play hockey though cedarcliff or did you go to school there
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new possiblity, why not tape up the car and paint over hte tape. When you get bored of ti (3-4 days or so) peel it off exposing your orignal factory paint. Pretty stupid, but crazy enough it just might work.
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new possiblity, why not tape up the car and paint over hte tape. When you get bored of ti (3-4 days or so) peel it off exposing your orignal factory paint. Pretty stupid, but crazy enough it just might work.
You would be wasting soo much money it wouldn't be funny
It would look horrible since it wouldn't be smooth
If you miss taping one little spot you have now put paint on to your nice paint job
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Originally Posted by csmeance
new possiblity, why not tape up the car and paint over hte tape. When you get bored of ti (3-4 days or so) peel it off exposing your orignal factory paint. Pretty stupid, but crazy enough it just might work.
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i think they did make s4's that color, but the s4 in that picture was fully taped over with blue painters tape...the license plate even says tape
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