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Offline Peaches

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Do I Buy new Wipers or Paint them?
« on: 11 December 2006, 11:08 »
Buy new sets of window wipers or slap hammerite on em  ;D

If anyone has some tips on painting them go ahead, their a bit rusty and may have test spots of spray paint on them now  :embarassed: which um may not have taken lol
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Re: Do I Buy new Wipers or Paint them?
« Reply #1 on: 11 December 2006, 11:39 »
With your "list" I would have thought these would be low priority!  :D

Best if you buy new. But if you replace the blades its only the arms left so maybe some black hammerite will suffice.
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Re: Do I Buy new Wipers or Paint them?
« Reply #2 on: 11 December 2006, 12:27 »
You'd be very surprised, how much i got done this weekend! most serious thing now is the rust on the door and thats it! woo!

sunroof lacquer
paint chips with an overly long t cut needed
engine polish up . not sure about a steam clean yet
i need speaker pods
window wipers
bumper and trim needs a bit of tlc
interior clean

etc etc

so really its all in the cosmetic area ........ unless something else conks out on me  ::)

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Re: Do I Buy new Wipers or Paint them?
« Reply #3 on: 11 December 2006, 12:53 »
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speaker pods - there's loads of info on here about them - do a Search.

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Re: Do I Buy new Wipers or Paint them?
« Reply #4 on: 13 December 2006, 20:43 »


sunroof lacquer - best option is to strip it back, and repaint it.
paint chips with an overly long t cut needed - don't use t-cut, it's sh!t. Get a bottle of safecut, much better, and use it 2-3times then polish with autoglym resin polish
engine poish up . not sure about a steam clean yet
i need speaker pods
window wipers - do you mean the arms or the bits with the rubber in, if the arms, then just hammerite them
bumper and trim needs a bit of tlc - kiwi boot polish, and some simoniz back to black keeps the water off an all
interior clean