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I've been looking for replacement door cards for my S1 5m. I have a full set but they are not the best so wanted to see if I could get any better ones. I've managed to find the 2 rear ones and the off side front but had struggled to find a good near side front.

I managed to pick a blue one up from another forum member so I decided to have a go at vinyl painting it.


I had a look around a different paints and eventually decided to use some Halfords black flexible vinyl paint. (mainly due to price and the fact I could just go and get some). I gave the door card a good surface clean and waited for a reasonable sunny day last weekend and gave it a go.


I've never used a product like this before. I'm very pleased with the result. In the car its hard to tell it apart from a cleaned up original.

Looks good, with parts so thin on the ground you have to be creative I find

Super job - looks like a brand new panel.

i've used the same stuff on bumpers before, cracking job thinking outside the box, looks great

Great job.

I use it on my external black trim

That looks great. Very impressive result, you were lucky to find some cards in decent shape.

Kev and Dave, When you used this on bumpers/ external trim did you have to prime the parts first or just clean and then apply the paint?

The waist level trim and rear bumper black trim on my 75 TS SE has faded badly and thought I'd give this a try...

Cheers,

Ted

stuff I used didn't need primer.
parts do have to be extremely clean though, not just washed clean but cleaned with panel wipe or thinners is non to hand.
a good key to the panel helps too, scratch it with a scotch pad. a brillo pad would do I guess or some steel wool

I used a scotch pad and then wiped with panel wipe