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Title: Are my front wings plastic?
Post by: Caspersmith on February 10, 2018, 07:52:35 am
Noticed this morning, all surfaces frosty apart from wings & bumpers?(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20180210/4b9cf04f0b742858dfd617d40922c666.jpg)

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Title: Re: Are my front wings plastic?
Post by: Dogma on February 10, 2018, 08:52:44 am
Interesting Certainly looks like it


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Title: Re: Are my front wings plastic?
Post by: rich83 on February 10, 2018, 08:59:09 am
Unlikely. Should’ve obvious what they are made out of if you take 10 seconds and look  :P
Title: Re: Are my front wings plastic?
Post by: Dogma on February 10, 2018, 10:07:49 am
Unlikely. Should’ve obvious what they are made out of if you take 10 seconds and look  :P

Im awake now hmm yes tap the wings that give the answer.


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Title: Re: Are my front wings plastic?
Post by: Caspersmith on February 10, 2018, 05:52:06 pm
I have tapped the wings defo metal! Well that's that conundrum wrapped up

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Title: Re: Are my front wings plastic?
Post by: Dave J on February 10, 2018, 06:39:01 pm
I wish mine were plastic, rather than the annoying VW metal ones with the foam pad behind them that is now causing them to bubble & rust!
Title: Are my front wings plastic?
Post by: Dogma on February 11, 2018, 09:03:51 pm
I have tapped the wings defo metal! Well that's that conundrum wrapped up

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Hehe


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Title: Re: Are my front wings plastic?
Post by: BlackGTI on February 18, 2018, 08:57:03 pm
Recently painted wings and bonnet maybe  :thinking:
Title: Re: Are my front wings plastic?
Post by: Caspersmith on February 19, 2018, 07:52:02 pm
Recently painted wings and bonnet maybe  :thinking:
Funny you say that, my misses old man had a look at the car last week for the 1st time & spotted straight away that the paint finish looked slightly different on the wings compared to the rest.

Not something I'd notice but he used to spray cars.

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Title: Re: Are my front wings plastic?
Post by: BlackGTI on February 22, 2018, 09:36:04 pm
Was meant say bumper. I work as a paint sprayer and see this all the time in the winter, when something has just been painted and put out in the cold weather the very next day everything apart from what has been painted will be frozen.  :thinking:
Title: Re: Are my front wings plastic?
Post by: Dave J on February 22, 2018, 10:12:07 pm
Was meant say bumper. I work as a paint sprayer and see this all the time in the winter, when something has just been painted and put out in the cold weather the very next day everything apart from what has been painted will be frozen.  :thinking:
That's interesting - I wonder if that is because the paint is degassing? I've always read these posts on DetailingWorld about how you shouldn't seal paints until they had a while to cure (don't ask me how long, though!). I thought most paints used these days are water based, so that's even more weird?

I bow out to someone with greater knowledge...!