Legacy Grille (BH5) Sanding & Painting Help!!

[subypower]

Hi All,

The grille off my BH5 Legacy has peeled off half of its chrome paint layer, which is really frustrating

So I have decide to sand it down and then paint it gloss black.

What grit sandpaper should I use to do the initial sanding? 120?

Any help is much appreciated!

Cheers

[swiftbrad]

I'd go fine as man, wet and dry down to 320?

someone else may have another idea

[Jord]

120 is rather rough for plastic probably start with 400 (maybe a little less) followed by some 1000.

Sanding will take aaaaggges though. By far the quickest way is to use a urethane safe paint stripper. Spray on wait 1-2 mins.... scrub off. Job done

[ydragu]

320 it then 400 paint it with black texture spray you can get from car colours or similar

[subieboy]

 Jord said:

Sanding will take aaaaggges though. By far the quickest way is to use a urethane safe paint stripper. Spray on wait 1-2 mins.... scrub off. Job done

+1 for the stripper... or use a heatgun on low setting...

[Scoobydoo]

Primer it first, then sand it down, primer again if you want to, then sand again and paint.

[subieboy]

 Scoobydoo said:

Primer it first, then sand it down, primer again if you want to, then sand again and paint.

Repeat until smooth as baby bottom ;D

[kwikaus]

you really need to scarth up the surface first, so 120grit is recommened (sorry my bad wrong grit use 320 or the likes), get all the old chorme of as well as sum paints will react badly with this, try and avoid just filling the chips up to paint as most likly will want to chip in same place again easily. Use a top quality plastic primer, this will help key the coating into the plastic, follow this up with a couple coats of primer to build the coating up so can be sanded smooth, than apply your top coats with wet and dry in between coats for that smooth as look, if you have any problems drop me a line, only to happy to help ya if needed. may have found a product that may remove the chrome of the plastic, it is called sem plastic bumper paint stripper, dont know much more untill the company that imports it in contacts me back but when they do i will post it up for every one who is keen, untill then goggle it if you want. ;D