![]() Step 1 Use a soft-bristled brush to gently push around the still-wet paint to soften lines and blur features. Your paint code will be 2 characters, like the example, T8 for Tungsten Gray exterior paint color. Jaguar Isuzu Iveco Land Rover Kia Lancia Maserati. Fiat Ford EU Great Wall Honda Hyundai Infinity. Alfa Romeo Audi BMW Chevrolet EU Citroen Dacia. These are mainly 2018 - 2019 European locations, but will add more as they get come along. Outlined in red is where the paint code for your vehicle will be listed. Click on any button and it will show you an image of where your paint code location is. Good luck - such a labor of love you had better REALLY feel the love to get thru this horrible job. There are several methods, but the paint must not be dry. 2020 FORD MUSTANG KONA BLUE TOUCH UP PAINT. Looking for a different shade of blue Follow this link: Blue Color Codes. After that, more remover and the normal scotchpad or wire brush. These values can help you match the specific shade you are looking for and even help you find complementary colors. I used a/c remover on all of this - plus a broad (1" or larger) wood chissel to scrape. On my car, the crap on the top of the tranny tunnell was baked, dry & brittle - but still very hard to remove. I am NOT suggesting you remove the air tunnels that are glued on, as getting them properly reattached is a nightmare (or so I've heard).Īnother note - the sound proofing inside the cockpit (floors, top of tranny tunnel, behind seats) is an even bigger pain. I'm in San Diego (have owned this car since new) so there was only minimal rust, but in more rust-prone areas it would be, in my opinion, very foolish to NOT disassemble the bonnet and correct this. ![]() If you disasemble the bonnet into pieces you will find all the metal-to-metal contact (i.e., between bonnet panels and under screws) to not even have primer - absolutely bare metal. NOTE: the factory was VERY lazy about priming and sealing bonnet sections - the front was assembled, screwed together, and THEN painted. The factory just went crazy spraying everything. Once you have the drive train out and suspension removed, everything else is sprayed body color - including the bolts fixing the front frame rails, the washers & screws underside the bonnett, etc. Properties that cant be used in PaintCode (e.g. LOTTTTTSSS of hard work and verrrryyy messy removing the undercoating - turns into soft, wet tar. How does PaintCode import drawings from Sketch You can use Copy and Paste to import Sketch layers to PaintCode. I used aircraft remover - that's the strongest available (at auto paint suppliers), though Ace Hardware has a "Super Stripper" that is 1/3 less and essentially as good. Undercoating should NOT be inside the engine compartment OTHER THAN inside the opening of the transmission tunnel and the front wheel wells (underside of bonnet). Carter - just finished this job wi9th my Series III - was about a 6 month "full time" job stripping the car to bare metal inside & out.
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