taping door panels

ezshot81 · Post by **ezshot81** » Fri Sep 29, 2006 9:41 pm

Anyone have trouble taping off the door panels before painting. Seems there is sometihing on the plastic and the tape wont stick. Tried cleaning with all kinds of stuff but nothing seems to work. Anyone have any ideas?

bad04srt · Post by **bad04srt** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 4:37 pm

take the panel off.... .seems like a good idea to me

ilpadrino · Post by **ilpadrino** » Sat Sep 30, 2006 8:43 pm

What do you want to paint? I painted the bottom of the door (where there's a pocket), the speaker grill, and the window crank. I went nuts with newspapers and covered everything else, except those two areas. The crank I just painted because it's easily removed.

ezshot81 · Post by **ezshot81** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:34 am

The panel is off. I meant taping off for two sperate colors. I was having trouble getting tape to stick to the panel. Tried cleaning with soap and water and a few other things. The only thing that worked was the orange citrus shop degreaser. After I used that the tape stuck just fine.

scneonchic · Post by **scneonchic** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 9:49 am

I had problems when I 2 toned my first set of door panels, and it was a bad mess

I think i ended up giving up

henry00x · Post by **henry00x** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 12:57 pm

i tried this and in the end i ended up buyin a whole new set of panels..dont do it!

WiTeOuT · Post by **WiTeOuT** » Sun Oct 01, 2006 5:15 pm

henry00x wrote:i tried this and in the end i ended up buyin a whole new set of panels..dont do it!

in the long run you will look back and realize that this is totally NOT worth doing yourself. Either do it professionally, or don't do it at all.

Paralyzer · Post by **Paralyzer** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 10:50 am

I have a friend that did this to his Cavy. And to this day he liked the outcome but it took a lot of time to do. But he will advise not to do any thing that moves...windows crank and door handle....as the paint will crack and peel over time due to resistance of pressure of the movement.

NiteHawk · Post by **NiteHawk** » Wed Oct 04, 2006 5:09 pm

clean with rubbing alcohol ONLY. soap and water will leave residue...only better thing is Surface Prep(i get it from Sherwin williams)

IndySRT-4 · Post by **IndySRT-4** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:34 pm

Yeah I used a surface prep I got from work. Then spent quite awhile sanding just to make sure, then primed, painted then cleared. Turned out really well for a do it yourselfer.

NiteHawk · Post by **NiteHawk** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 10:46 pm

damn thats some darktint.........

paint looks good too