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Hi all    my nephew and i took into the X today as planned , painted all the black plastic  satin black as it was nearer grey , e70 wiper arms n blades front and rear ( cut an inch of the passenger side ! ) dpbayly spec , bonnet vents sprayed  as they were near bleached white  , LED door projector BMW lights , set of 4 ispeed wind deflectors .
more planned next weekend .
  Colin ...

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Hi all    my nephew and i took into the X today as planned , painted all the black plastic  satin black as it was nearer grey , e70 wiper arms n blades front and rear ( cut an inch of the passenger side ! ) dpbayly spec , bonnet vents sprayed  as they were near bleached white  , LED door projector BMW lights , set of 4 ispeed wind deflectors .
more planned next weekend .
  Colin ...
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That's the sort of things I do, but unfortunately I then sell or part exchange them shortly after

I did the best ever refresh of any of my cars 10 years ago....

keeps them in great condition, no dents, no spilled coffee & sticky sweets on the seats, no more destroyed clutches... no me agro at all...

Simples ..... I got divorced & have had motoring GLORY ever since.

Colin, what did painting the plastic turn out like and did you do any pre treatment. A pic would be good, how long do you expect it to last??

The painting was the easy bit  , i spent weeks prior to this cleaning and scrubbing the plastic to get any trace of gel  wax  tar  or anything that was going to react with the paint , a good rub with pre wipe  then on with plastic primer then 3 coats of satin black , i have to say for two complete novice's it looks 1st class  we were well pleased,  time will tell how long it lasts what with stone chips and road filth  might have to fashion a set of stone deflectors

been trying to upload photo with Tinypic  with no luck    yet !

Don't know whether to believe you or not Colin, after all, where in gods name do you live in NI to get enough sun to turn the plastic grey

lol  we have been known to get sunshine on a few days    today was a beautiful day

Hi Colin

Sounds like you and your nephew have been busy on on a spring clean of the the X.

I look forward to the pics of all the hard work esp how the the satin black comes out on the arches.

Graeme

i think i sorted the tinypics if anyone wants to try if having trouble

upload the image but in the  resize box use web size or smaller.    when uploaded  the address of the tiny pic photo is highlighted in the box 

copy and paste this into your post and the photo should appear    took me ages to find that out

Hope it works for you

To be honest most of the time I want to put a pic up I use the app "tapatalk" on the iPhone it's just so easy.

it worked ... will put more photos up when it stops raining

E70 wiper arm and blade mod ,  bonnet vents satin black with a light coat of lacquer , sorry about the rain  it hasn't stopped all day
Will have to wash the X before i photo the rest of the black work