Monday, December 11, 2006 - 08:15 pm, by: Sam Avery(Samavery)
i have seen a few celsiors around with chromed door pillars (exterior). mine are painted black and i want them chrome. does anyone know how to safely remove the black paint so i can expose the chrome finish underneath it? thanks. i have tried acetone but to no avail.
Thursday, December 14, 2006 - 03:09 pm, by: Nik Gacomi(Snoopie)
Sam,
Was interested in doing this myself can you post any pictures of the finished look? Also do you think its possible to do it while the doors are still on if the trims have been removed?
Thursday, December 14, 2006 - 06:11 pm, by: Sam Avery(Samavery)
yeah ill get some pictures for ya. i did mine on the car and used a paint scraper once the brake fluid had eaten some paint. the chrome is a little scratched but i have yet to try polishing it all up. anyone know any GOOD methods of getting real fine scratches out of it?
Friday, December 15, 2006 - 04:52 pm, by: Sam Avery(Samavery)
ah thanks i was thinkin i might have to wetndry it to get them out everyone has been telling me autosol, but i have tried that now and it doesnt get the deeper ones out.
Saturday, December 16, 2006 - 08:40 am, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
I am in the process of stripping back my wheels for repainting. I am using paint stripper from Mitre 10. The two I have used are "polystrip" and "selleys quick strip". Both of them have done no harm to the alloy wheels and both have worked well.
Polystrip is a bit less offensive smelling but a bit more messy and takes longer(30-120min). Quick strip works quickly (5-15 min) and is relatively mess free, but it stinks very bad and burns like hell if you get it on you. The Quick strip also has 'automotive finishes' in its product uses blurb.
Both products are about $12 for 500ml.
I would use a plastic scraper and nylon brushes if you are polishing the metal underneath. Alternatively use a high pressure hose (gerney etc) to remove flaked paint and residue. Just make sure you don't allow any stripper or residue sit on you paint work.
well to take them off is easy, its stuck on with heavy duty double sided tape, get a flat head and a stanley knife. pry it open from the top side and cut the tape and work your way down.
once there off take a sander and sand away. i think i used 20o - 300 gritt. once the paint was off i used wet/dry sand paper (wet of course) and worked my way up from 300- 2000 gritt. them polished it up with metal polish.
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 - 11:14 am, by: Nik Gacomi(Snoopie)
Kanchana i took mine off the car but i bent them a bit while doing so and now have slight indents in them did you have this problem as well? How did you reshape them?
Thursday, August 30, 2007 - 09:34 pm, by: Julia Almond(Juelz)
I read this the other day and just newspapered the surrounding areas and had a good old time with some paint stripper.. did that a few times and scrapped it off and then spruced it up with some brasso 30 minutes later they looked just like Kanchana's.. was so easy and worth it it looks so much better now with the matching chrome trim around the doors etc.
Friday, August 31, 2007 - 05:16 pm, by: Julia Almond(Juelz)
I will try and get some up sometime tonight for you but it was just the one you get from supercheap heavy duty paint stripper it was really really easy just roughed the paint ip with some sandpaper or a scourer and then put the paint stripper on and left it for a bout 10-15 then most of it came off and then put a lil more stripper on the left over bits and then shined it up and tadaa.. it took like 30-45 mins max and Im so glad I didnt fork out $200 for the stick on sheets of chrome on ebay what a rip off when this takes less time and is 40 times cheaper. good luck kurt if you do it its easy..Im a girl and I can do it
Friday, August 31, 2007 - 08:30 pm, by: Ben Kelly(Ace)
umm, this maybe a silly question but how thick is the chrome layer? what is it actually made of? and why would such a sexy layer of chrome be painted? im only asking cause i am definately going to give it a go, but im worried about going through the polished layer.
Saturday, September 01, 2007 - 04:38 pm, by: Julia Almond(Juelz)
Dont ask me.. my 'guess' is that its a steel plate its thick enough though and durable I went nuts with paint stripper and a metal scourer and sandpaper and it polished up perfectly so dont be worried about hurting it I would have definately done some damage it if wasn't thick enough..But thats what confused me I guess the japanese people that build them wanted it to be black and thats what they did but it certainly looks better without paint..
Friday, September 07, 2007 - 12:28 pm, by: Joshua Rowland(Jnr)
Im just wondering if the door pillar bit that everyone wants chrome and removes the paint. Can you do the whole lot meaning the trim around both windows, take the black paint of so its all chrome??