Re: Painting plastic - ( roofbox )

Aug 25, 2003 3 Replies


If I can make it more asthetically pleasing, I might be able to persuade the


> mother-in-law to climb in it from when we go away............

It'd be quicker and cheaper to anaesthetise her and put her in than trying to tempt her in with pleasing colours.


Rob Graham


LOL -so thats what was shouting let me out as you pasted my house the other morning from the roof of your car ;-)

Anyway trp bumper paint - Halfords sell it in light grey & dark - don't forget to also by the bumper prep stuff to clean the plastic with

Martin

PS - Yes it does work :-)

At least by standing on the box on he could reach a little higher up the wall.

Use a plastic primer (Hycote do one) and colour-code it to the car with normal acrylic aerosol car paint. :) I wouldn't worry about the plastic flexing and the paint cracking because roof boxes are rigid while paint doesn't crack when you dent or flex panels like a roof or wing.

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