james kiely

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im sure ive discussed this before but i cant find the thread

im painting the front of my diamond white 3dr including the engine bay

my painter was over looking at it last night and we were having a chat about it and he uses water basecoat and laquer system .he will blend it back in to the doors but i need the skirts and bodykit painted aswell to get it upto standard.the arches were rubbing the cxns that used to be on it so need some attention.

am i mad in thinking it could be matched in solid again as my concern is the bodykit cant be blended in to the body?

whats the best quality paint also ,glasurit?dupont ? etc

dilemma guys

costina

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I would use glasurit solid 2k at least you can flat and polish to death and not break thru a clear coat.

I am sure ford painted all cars of that era in solid.

james kiely

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it would be great to try a solid again,but i dont think you can blend it in.

so maybe a 2k as you say

the painter did say to use a glasurit or dupont

i would prefer not to paint the whole car as the paint is pretty original on it ,but colour matching is a disasster lol

thanks for your input mate

costina

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You can have the colour scanned and it should be near enough.

we have to do this on old vintage stuff

james kiely

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i think thats what i may do mate .its a mare

costina

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Just spoke to our painter at work who used to work for ford back in the day.

He said no Ford's were painted in base and clear if they was a solid Colour.

you can have you paint spectrographed to match the shade.

Hope that helps.

james kiely

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i think i may have it spectographed as you say mate .ity could end up with the whole sides been painted to get a match probably

cossynut2

My Saff is 1990 diamond white and original paintwork.A couple of years ago I had both bumpers re-painted and wanted them to blend in and not look new. This was what I got as the colour match is spot on. A top painter should be able to do what you want. My bumpers are solid paint only.

james kiely

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i think you got lucky getting it so close lol

i do trust my painter, i think he started to question himself when we had a long chat about ford diamond white

cossynut2

The painter I use does work on top end cars and is a Ford man as well. He has done work on many RS 500s etc where the customers wanted a flawless finish.
I explained to him what I wanted and due to his skill, not luck, he delivered. He will be doing the side skirts and some bonnet touching in for me soon and I am not worried at all that it won't be as good as his previous work.
Good skilled painters are thin on the ground but they are out there and once you find one you will use him all the time.
I thing I learnt was how many different shades of diamond white there are, I just assumed it was one but that is not the case. Colour matching is where the painters skill is so important, 23 years of polishing alters the colour as well!!

james kiely

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3dr painted at long last in solid paint .im glad i followed my gut feeling on this and got the whole car painted as its come out great.paint had a lovely depth to it and a wonderful magnolia hue off it lol

james kiely

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james kiely

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thats what we went with in the end .diamond white B Shade1

james kiely

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cossynut2

Looks great, the painter has done a nice job. As the paint hardens you will be able to get it to a superb finish with the solid paint.

james kiely

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cheers mate ,yes he done a great job and it fought him all the way with silicone reactions .the paint suppliers even came to his workshop and they put it down to the amount of waxoyl on the car


the only problem is he mislaid my rear spoiler caps

cossynut2

One of the many diamond white colours!! At least if you ever have to anything re-painted in the future you know exactly what is the correct match.

james kiely

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yes mate ,all future paint problems covered now .he said he can touch in anything now .im so happy i removed everything to paint all the door and boot shuts ,engine bay,sunroof

james kiely

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time to get this back on the road ,39900 miles ,last taxed in 2011

R4N SS

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Did this belong to Mike? Boxxer on here? If so I remember that car well and it only had 18,000 miles on it then

james kiely

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Yes mate it's boxers old one

jonfoc

james kiely

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Cool mate I will give you a call

jonfoc

R4N SS

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that is a very nice one and used to have the NMS gunship conversion

MONSTER

Lovely job James, you must be chuffed with that

Now the hard work starts!!

Caddyshack

Caddyshack

james kiely

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[QUOTE=jonfoc;6781748]ie been busy with this one mate ,i promise lol
spec at the minute is l8 55llb siemens,running a 909 t34.63 with power about 375bhp mate ,but i will be putting it back 100% standard

well chuffed dave .finding all the original bits and pieces to get it to a good original standard will be the hard bit

i couldnt agree more toby

Caddyshack

Glenn_

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Can't beat the look of a freshly painted car. I just hope you don't mark the paint putting all back together.