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Discoloured grille
RedRobin:
^^^^
Thanks for the thanks :happy2:
Let us know if Back-to-Black does the trick. It's a loooong time since I did it but I recall it took some persistence.
ub7rm:
Failing all that take it off and use a heat gun, not so close to melt it obviously but just enough to get the plastic to turn. Best trying it out on a mates car first :grin:
edit:
Like so,
http://www.eastsidevw.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2309&p=25008&hilit=heat+gun#p25008
guess it depends on if the plastic is suitable for this treatment.
VC:
--- Quote from: ub7rm on February 13, 2011, 03:34:43 pm ---Failing all that take it off and use a heat gun, not so close to melt it obviously but just enough to get the plastic to turn. Best trying it out on a mates car first :grin:
edit:
Like so,
http://www.eastsidevw.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=2309&p=25008&hilit=heat+gun#p25008
guess it depends on if the plastic is suitable for this treatment.
--- End quote ---
well i never... clever trick that :pomppomp:
apollo13:
When I did my front end conversion to the facelift GT Sport style grilles I bought the lower 3 grilles new from the stealer and the main grille from ebay.
When I had them all together the main grille was noticably lighter in colour. I rang around a few places and did a bit of reading (mostly on US forums) and the product they all raved about was SEM Bumper Coat. SEM is well known in the SMART repair world apparently.
Its a spray but not paint, more like a dye. It was easy to apply and the grille matched the others perfectly. 10k miles on and a pretty bad winter it looks just the same as it did the day it was sprayed.
I think it was about £12 a can but I only used half a can at the most.
I had trouble getting hold of it as its a US product but it does come up on ebay now and then or try somewhere that supplies SMART repair consumables.
stealthwolf:
Using a heat gun is fine if the plastic has faded, but am not sure how it would affect the discolouration.
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