painting door mirrors

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stevenb
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painting door mirrors

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Does anyone recommend a particular typr of paint I can use to paint my door mirrors and the rubbery/plasticy triangle bits.....and preferably the window strips (metal).
One of my triangles is a bit faded and i have silver bits showing around the window strips.

I think a nice satin black finish would look nice. No colour coding.....
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Steven, really easy. Even I managed it!

Wet and dry the metal strips back to metal, mask up really well and spray with Halfords Matt Black.

Works really well, and tidys the car up a hell of alot for £8 + 2 hours or so work.
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Re: painting door mirrors

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waynestoyotamr2 wrote:Steven, really easy. Even I managed it!

Wet and dry the metal strips back to metal, mask up really well and spray with Halfords Matt Black.

Works really well, and tidys the car up a hell of alot for £8 + 2 hours or so work.


Matt black for the metal strips....not for the door mirrors......must be satin as I want them to shine. :wink:

Halfords paint it is.....
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Steven, the triangles are a bit of a PITA imo to get the paint off, I usually chip away at it with a small screw driver - you will be all day with wet n dry on that. Tape the mirror up well too and make sure you dont scuff it mate!
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It isn't that difficult to take the mirrors off the car and strip them down. They are screwed in very tight with three screws behind the plastic trim triangle inside the door. I used a small wrench and a crosshead bit to get some leaverage and got them loose.

Made the job of painting a lot simpler.
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Wayne did you use a primer on the window edges and if so which one did you use?
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superchargedsam wrote:Wayne did you use a primer on the window edges and if so which one did you use?


£8 from halfrauds, sounds like he didnt :lol:
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Re: painting door mirrors

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yeah thats how I read it as well but just wondered as its quite shiny metal under the paint !
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Sam - absolutely no need for primer in my experience.
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i've also heard that acylic paint can be quite good, but not seen the results myself
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Re: painting door mirrors

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wayne fairysnuff then I will give it a go as they do look tired, what grades of wet and dry did you use to start and finish and in between (well the whole process really DOH!).

Cheers fella.


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Post by MegatronUK »

About to do mine... but I can't make my mind up as to what to do with the mirrors...

1: Repaint them entirely in matt satin black as I'm doing with all the other exterior black trim.
2: Colour code the mirror body in the same colour as the car, leaving the 'stalk' and triangular plastic in matt black.
3: Colour code the mirror body, stalk and plastic base bate in bode colour.

All the bodywork is being repainted in an off-white, the side rubbing strips have been removed and the door handles are being coded. Plastic trim from the bottom of the window upwards is getting re-done in matt black.... I think coloured mirrors would look good, but I'm not sure whether to do all of 'em or just the bodies.... what are standard colour coded mk1 mirrors like?
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Re: painting door mirrors

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when I had my red mk1 resprayed I had it fully colour coded with door handles mirrors the lot and it looked good IMO and have my blue SC colour coded and that looks good as well so I rekon go for it and do the lot but its personal choice fella and yours is looking good so far !
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