[urq] Good paint for headlight trim?

Brandon Rogers brogers at terrix.com
Mon Apr 4 11:09:28 EDT 2005


I painted my headlight surrounds with flat black bumper(?) paint or 
something like that.  ISTR it holding for a few years...then I got sloped 
Cibies so .....

Brandon
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Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 3:05 PM
Subject: [urq] Good paint for headlight trim?


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> Hi there,
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> I need to repaint the black OEM headlight surrounds on my car. This is the
> second set I get (thanks Al K.!!) and one of them is not nice. Since these
> parts have the black paint over the chromed-plastic, I need something
> better than the average spray paint. I already did some test on one set,
> and it don't last. I even sanded the chromed face, but this stuff is real
> hard and there was not much effect on the finish.
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> I try some pinstripes too, but the result is not very good.
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> Is there a rubbery paint (or primer) available ? Something that will hold
> to the chrome but won't be chipped by the road debris? Spray or brush, it
> doesn't matter.
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> TIA,
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> Louis-Alain
> 1983 Quattro
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