Tinting tails

Nic dropped his set of VW Polo 9N2 rear lights off for me to tint... So with some help and advice from Aldo at Maldino Customs in Silverton,Pretoria, the lights were transformed from this bright red:

To this tinted/smoked look...

Here's a comparison shot:

And the end result fitted to this neat Polo (at night)

It looks absolutely great on the white car, and makes the rear look menacing!

By day...

(pictures courtesy of Nic and Shaun)

Badge(ing) it..

So I decided my stock front end needs a little update...

From this:

To this, using a bit of white paint to set the contrast:

.:R fitment

So the .:R-line spoiler was fitted, and the rear was transformed from this:

To this, sporty, OEM+ look:

Spoile(.:R) of note

The 2007 Citi .:R-line MK1 golf came out with a wickid rear spoiler. So it goes without saying that many owners of Citi golfs would be adding it the spoiler to their cars...

Here's one that is soon to be fitted to a VW Black Magic 2005 model Citi...

Unpainted, primed , and sanded down:

Coated with the basecoat and then with clear coat...all shiny:

Keep a lookout for the update when it get's fitted to the car

The repair chronicles

WHen you reverse, things come from the behind. But when in a hurry, be sure to check if anything is behind the car. I reversed into the wheelbarrow at home one friday afternoon. Doing this to my car:

And this:

So after removing the dent and sanding the area to be sprayed. I applied a fresh coat of VW's finest white, and this is how it ended up to look like:
Scratches sanded down, and bumper resprayed:
Shiny does it! 

Polo 9N3 gloss black details

So this here neat looking VW Polo 9N3 is Mark's. Its the 96kw TDi model and has seen numerous aesthetic mods done to enhance the look of the car.

The bits he wanted me to paint was the side mirrors and the B-pillars. The B-pillars is matt black and actually splits the nice shiny effect that the tinted windows create . The colour he was after was gloss black. Nice

So I got stuck right in to get the desired look and sanded them down, and applied MS primer. Sanded down again and applied the black, called Finishing black which is like a mirror finish.

After struggling a bit to get the look perfect, and after repainting the bits quite a couple times, the final effect looked perfect and this is how the bits came out in the end!

And this is how it looks on the car! The B-pillars create the effect of a large side window, and the black mirrors on the white Polo looks real neat!

Storm Beige Golf 4 GTi - colourcoding

A good mate of mine drives this minter of a GTi. A 2003 model 110kw 1.8T. For some refreshment, he decided to get the lower two valences colourcoded, the same as the rest of the car - VW Storm Beige is the colour in question.

Here are the before photos:

First, the lips were sanded to remove any and all nasty scratches, and a coet of plastic primer was applied

Next the MS primer was laid on the valences, to ensure a good hold.

The base coat was then appied and shortly after it dried, the top clear coat was splashed on to give a shiny smooth end result

After re-fitting the valences, the end result is a phatter and more aggressive look! The car looks much nicer and more rounded off.

VW Polo 9N Matt black valences

For a bit of flair, the VW Black Magic paint scheme on the Polo needed something to distinguish it from the rest. It was decided to make the front and rear plastic valences matt black, and smooth it at the same time.
As seen in the horrible quality pic, the two plastic valences are textured with millions of small nobblies.

This was sanded smooth as best as possible.

The polypropylene (plastic) primer was next to go on, to ensure strong bonding of the paint anto the valence

MS Primer was applied next, and tediously sanded smooth to give it that super smoothed look before the matt black goes on. As seen here, smoooth...

I have a strange soft spot for anything matt black...

And after a coat of the black stuff, the end result is super neat, and shows off nicely against the pearly VW Black Magic...

VW Jetta 2 bumper

Livesh dropped his new Jetta 3 front bumper off for me to paint! What better colour than Monza Red! When I got it, it was cover in this oily protective lubricant to keep the black plastic..well..black!

So i cleaned that off with some plastic-friendly chemicals and started to flat the surface soon to be sprayed.

Then started the masking process, carefully making sure that there are no holes for the overspray to get onto the top and bottom parts of the bumper.

The polypropylene (plastic) primer is a must on bare plastic surfaces, else the 2K top coat wont stick, and the paint will peel in no time!

As seen in the pic, the plastic primer has a sort of metallic silver finish

After the red coat wash splashed on, the final product really looks super good! Smooth, fresh and shiny...

Audi S4 bumper refurbish

This is one beast of a car, the Audi S4, 4.2Lit V8... I didn't get it to go drive it like a mad man, i got it to recoat the front and rear bumpers to give the car an almost-new refreshed look.

The front bumper had serious stone-chip damage, and the rear bumper had been slightly reversed into a pole.

The colour in question is VW Black Magic. A very expensive base coat / clear coat type paint, with metallic elements added.

I sanded down both bumpers, and removed all the scratches and dings, applied MS primer, and flattened it again. I then painted the base coat onto both bumpers and waited for it to dry.

The final coat is the clear coat, to give the bumpers a super shiny look. Here are the results