Date:         Fri, 24 Aug 2001 20:02:01 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Advice on repainting the van?
Comments: To: steve_syncro@TECHIE.COM
Content-Type: text/plain

Keep the same color. Repaint jobs are terrible when they get to the door
jambs.
If you get it painted. Strip everything off of the van that doesn't
require a cutting torch.
That includes bumpers, door handles, windshield squirters, radio antenna,
wipers ; just everything.

I changed the color on a Corvette and the resale went down $3,000.00 with
a $1500.00 paint job.

On Fri, 24 Aug 2001 17:16:45 -0700 Steve Hoge <steve_syncro@TECHIE.COM>
writes:
> After a few years being stored outside a few blocks from the Pacific
> Ocean, my '89 Syncro is finally starting to look ratty enough to
> justify
> repainting.  It's got the original "Titian Red" paint, which I was
> never
> too fond of, and I'd really like to see it in that metallic silver
> color
> that was stock for that year.  So I gotta few questions for the
> experts:
>
> 1) I have been warned that silver is a particularly difficult color
> for a
> repainting job.  Anybody have good or bad experiences laying down
> silver
> over a different (darker) color?
>
> 2) There seems to be a clear coat over the red that's lifting off
> and
> flaking in places.  Also there was a factory-applied silver tape
> running
> around the body in a horizontal band (racing stripe?)  Should all
> this
> stuff be removed as part of the prep for painting?
>
> 3) My '89 has the wraparound plastic bumpers.  They've gone from
> black to
> grey - should they be repainted or is there another rejuvenation
> technique?
>
> Thanks in advance
> - Steve

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