Managed to buy the scuttle panels (both side) for £20 and they've just turned up. Frankly they're in great shap although need painting.

 

What do you guys think? Paint the same code black as the car or just something like plasticoat or plastidip?

 

 

Edited April 15, 201510 yr by bird

Well gell .i desprate for the short nearside one. 20 quid bargin

Managed to buy the scuttle panels (both side) for £20 and they've just turned up. Frankly they're in great shap although need painting.

 

What do you guys think? Paint the same code black as the car or just something like plasticoat or plastidip?

 

 

Send them to me and ill paint them for Me me me

Go for a Satin black to try and keep the OEM look.

Go for a Satin black to try and keep the OEM look.

 

I can spray satin send them to me

Pmsl at spin doctor.

 

Lexx, wouldn't plastidip look the right colour?

 

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Pmsl at spin doctor.

 

Lexx, wouldn't plastidip look the right colour?

Go for a Satin black to try and keep the OEM look.

 

That's what I'd do too......:cool:

Just a normal spray can with plastic primer then? No clear coat I'm guessing?

Pmsl at spin doctor.

 

Lexx, wouldn't plastidip look the right colour?

 

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Pmsl at spin doctor.

 

Lexx, wouldn't plastidip look the right colour?

 

Plastidip finish is inconsistent and doesn't last.

It's also been known for windscreen wash fluid to mark or even dissolve it.

 

You could use a satin clear coat over satin black if you wanted to give it a shade of depth.

Just a normal spray can with plastic primer then? No clear coat I'm guessing?

 

Correct Lee that's how I did mine gave them a good clean with panel wipe and a tack cloth before the primer then a couple of nice even coats of satin black and that should do it. NO CLEARCOAT

gives a nice OEM look

I treated mine to a full set of new fasteners from Mike Feeney. Then I sold them and got carbon ones instead.

We're the fasteners very much?

U can get the black plastic fasteners from Halfords for about £3.

The scuttle panels, fine wet & dry, then grey prima then I used black plastic bumper paint, all Halfords.

I used the same method for the black window strips.

I think I paid about £2 each for them nissan OEM but if yhe halfords ones fit then happy days.

I treated mine to a full set of new fasteners from Mike Feeney. Then I sold them and got carbon ones instead.

 

Any pics of the carbon ones.were did you get them from.

I'm not even sure what fasteners ID need to be honest

Little sqare things with little plastic push in screws.

Didnt somone on here do scuttle panles

Don't know what colour the Euro Z32's were, but the JDM's have a charcoal metallic colour on the wiper cowls, around the exterior mirrors & the strips on the roof.

Don't know what colour the Euro Z32's were, but the JDM's have a charcoal metallic colour on the wiper cowls, around the exterior mirrors & the strips on the roof.

 

They're all the same. Here's mine (stock brand new).

What i ment to say was carbon ones.

Anthonyd at SFS was doing the carbon scuttle panels through a group buy.

I've been out sending for about 3.5 hours this afternoon.

 

Anyway, I used 150g, do you'd think I should now use a finer grit, such as 240 even greater or will it be OK to paint as is?

 

If you are using crappy rattle cans filled with thin paint then the minimum finish will be in 400. 500/600 would be better. IMO

Thanks mate. Will be rattle cans. Do I need to build up to the higher grits or could I for example just go to 600 now?

Go to 600 now, give it a good paint over with primer and once dry key the primer with 1000/1200 grit then paint, done.