Schooner, how are they prepping the peices to be painted? Sanding and an etch primer first or are they bead blasting them down to the raw plastic first? Just curious.

PS- LOVE your flames - they look great on the electric blue with those rims.

 

Thanks I get alot of comments on my flames! But i dont have those rims anymore!:( very sadd! But I have new MINI R91 wheels on that look great! Anyway back to TOPIC!!

I am not 100% sure, But he did say something about self etching primer! but I will find out what he did, I should be getting them back today!!

 

You dont really have to do either....you can easily just scuff the chrome with a very fine steel wool and then prime it well. Bead blasting would destroy it....cause its very thin plastic behind their.

If you wanted to remove the chrome first though...there are some sink cleaning chemicals that remove chrome.

 

 

No wonder no ones provide any detailed instructions...do this at your own risk and don't bother to ask for details Let's just say, I agree...this requires a great deal of patience and problem solving skills (in other words, don't ask me how to do this)...so far so good...no broken parts



No wonder this thing costs an arm/leg! The igniter is inside the sealed lamp...

 

Well put...you will understand why people are hesitant to give instructions once you try it. It's not exactly an easy task

 

Ok...now to try this with my lamps Since I have one apart, I can see that resealing it will be easy using RTV...I should have this project done by the end of this weekend

 

wanna do mine too?

 

$3000 buckslol:

 

I'm in!



...Wait a minute.

 

Look...no glasses


What's for dinner?


Only 24 hours to go...

 

Wow. Thats looks like a lot of work MSFITOY!

You probably shouldn't go anywhere since you MINI is blind at the moment...

Hope it turns out great!

Oh, btw I love that dining table!

 

Corrective eye surgery

 

 

Awesome! Can't wait to see the results :D

 

Ditto!

Patiently awaiting more pics once finished and installed. So many mods, so little funds...

 

Some mods require more ***** than funds...

 

Big cojones.

 

I have no funds or *****!!! Im waiting to see how wonderfully it came out. You didnt cut corners on the rest of your car msfitoy, and this shoundnt be different.

 

I know there's challenges ahead...the dissassembly required a lot of prying which distorted some of the black plastic flange which were already soft from the oven...this will have caused the gaps to become larger than desired when remounted to the bonnet...we'll see tomorrow after the RTV has cured as to what is required to get the fit/finish back to spec...

 

Curious, why did you leave the other parts chrome? Did you have to, or did you just want to?

Either way, it's going to look sick Sid.

-Cody

 

You mean the door handle, etc? I think a little chrome on the Mini is natural...just like chrome on an old Jag or Ferrari...

If you meant the dissassemble lamps, that was before the painting...

 

I was talking about this:



I know that was before painting (on the right side) but what about the left side? Did you paint that chrome also (surrounding the bulbs)?

-Cody

 

Ummm...Cody....that would kill the lights Those are the reflectors for the bulb...

 

Alright, wasn't sure. That's why I asked if you had to have them in my first post. Wasn't sure!

And there has to be a way around that....somehow! Chrome = bad. All chrome = bad. Well, except for my M7 OCC.

-Cody