Scottish Elises

or as close as you can get to one in the Liz...

My two rear grilles are rusty and now look, well, cack! Any advice on what to do with them? Take em off, throw in bin / replace with extortionate eliseparts ones / repaint ?

If this should be in Techy, then apologies .

Cheers,

Greg

Woody had a thread about sandblasting them and then painting then spin cone black.(v hard aviation paint).

Yup - I'm gonna try and get mine re-done by Woody before mexi-towers. All depends on his shifts and it's a favour from workmates, though.

Might have a bash at mine (grills not rsb) tonight so expect various posts from me with pics of bits that will not move...

so what you're saying is, I need Woody for my Rusty Sheriff's badge?

Pretty much, yes.

Cheap / lasts the longest = tin of hammerite, brush on two coats
Expensive / just like original = sandblast, spray tin of Plasti-coat from B&Q or Halfrauds

scott

my hammerite only lasted 4 years.

I've had to do this twice over the past 4 years (probably because I didn't do it properly the first time!) I used satin black plasticote stuff the second time with a couple of coats of undercote first, and so far so good.

Might be a good idea to use some rust treatment on the mesh before hand, (as well as a wire brush!) and would be a good idea to have something like a dremel on standby incase you need to grind the bolt heads off if they have rusted (which they probably have)

Anyway, heres a handy guide: http://www.southrun.co.uk/grills.php

And by the way, hello everyone, just joined today!

D

(in a thread hijacking kinda way )

*cough*newbie section*cough*

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My front grill needs done but im gunna send her back to murrays to get that sorted....

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Welcome Dave, what took you so long?

Si. (used to live down the road from you faction)

*cough* stu are you still able to do powder coating for the grilles?

Sanjoy wrote:my hammerite only lasted 4 years.

Only! I take it ur car doesn't sit out in the pissin rain all year then!!!

(in fact I know it doesn't )

I talk in terms of months. Pain in the erse cause thee whole car looks sh*t when they rusty.

Scott

Empty all the rubbish out of your dad's garage then and you'll be able to put it in there