Home paint job

My mates golf is looking a bit fooked paint wise, laquer peel etc and just old! We are thinking of doing a home paint job in matt blue. should look good, but what is the easiest and cheapest way of doing it. And how??? like wha preperation do we do?

Roller and paint?

Rattle cans?

Basically who has done it and whats the best way to do it.

Cheers,

Dom

if u want a cheep paint job it dosnt get cheeper than this

$50 paintjob

phucking hell!!!!

if you roller you dont need to mask at all, key paint with scotch pads de-grese with panel wipe and start painting

definatly roller it!!, much mofre even coat, but Spooner and Mr dread are the best 2 chat with about the cheap paint option!

what are my cheap paint options then guys

personnally i rate 'hicote' spray paint available at apsley motorspares, i believe they do a blue?£4 a can youe will need at least 6 cans depends how good you are witha can

if you wanta specific colour then you gonna have to get it made up at halfords not sure what they charge per can but can be done(bad pun!)

i rollered my matt black but went over with spray it was wicks direct to metal matt black

to get a good matt just rubb athe colur back with scotchbrite


the most inportant thing is to degrease the whole car , washing up liquid and scotchbrite i went over mine with palm sander as well

Fair play to that link! one lovely job!

i rollered mine, and well with a bit of work it dont look too bad really, if u want dom give me a shout all ill drive up and show ya mate

My mate had an old mk2 with a 16v lump in it. We got bored one weekend and the paint was knackered. Hit it with some nitromours which didnt really work too well due to cost + amounts required. We also tried brake fluid which believe it or not did pretty much b**ger all!!

Ended up just sanding it down with a rough grit paper taping up the windows and cracking on with the primer. The look he went for was just primer grey with black bonnet and roof, which looked pretty rat.

Anyway the mk2 was just primer and we used 13 cans to do 2 coats on the whole car and even with this much paint the rust was still coming through the primer after 4 days so we had to keep touching it up.

To the point 13 x £6.99 = not pretty when thats just the primer cost.

It was a great laugh but didnt turn out too well and definatley wasn't cheap or good!!

Best of luck though mate

i want to do a D.I.Y paint job on my polo, want to do it matt white or white but i dont have room anywere to do it and i would be pretty usless at it

Well we did it on my mates drive in a weekend so you really dont need much space or for long. As for the spraying its a piece of piss if spraying a matt as long as you dont get runs in it and tape it up properly.

Just remebered i had a mate with a BMW who wanted it matt black - into the whole drifting thing and wanted something that would be "different" :s anyway he got 8 of his mates to meet him in tescos hatfield car park and one night sanded the car down and sprayed it. They started at 8PM and left at 2AM with the car fully done. The only thing is make sure you get a dry night hey