need help choosing paint & Primer for ed lip spoiler

by **eb2rodda** » October 7th, 2011, 9:36 am

"Searched for a thread on this subject but cant find one with enough help".
I have just bought a ed lip spoiler for the eb, its all preped ready for paint the only thing is it is made of rubber and im not sure what paint to buy , i contacted hammonds and they suggested a 100mls of acrylic and they mix a flexi addative with it but i have been told by other sources that it will need to be primed first, i would have thought there would have been a special plastic/rubber primer used as an undercoat first , if anyone has painted there spoiler and primed it first it would be great if you could get back to me with some product details...

Cheers
Aidan

also want to have it done b4 the cruise next w/end

by **apoc** » October 7th, 2011, 9:46 am

I'm also interested in this. I thought plastic primer would be fine to prime it with, but would need to use a flexible paint.
Some people I have talked to reckon normal paint and clear coat cracks pretty quickly on the rubber spoilers.

by **Qwik6** » October 8th, 2011, 6:39 pm

Interesting guys.
Ive been told I cant repair mine because've the material its made from.

by **wombi90** » October 8th, 2011, 6:58 pm

The material is hard to repair just like fpv bars and Hsv bars...

Plastic primer should be fine

by **Qwik6** » October 9th, 2011, 8:55 pm

wombi90 wrote:The material is hard to repair just like fpv bars and Hsv bars...

Plastic primer should be fine

You say hard to repair. So its possible? Have you done it?

by **LOW_XR** » October 10th, 2011, 7:32 pm

if the rubber is fully rubbed back to the plastic id give it a nice coat of plastic primer.
then high fill primer with some flexaid additive in it.
then base with colour and clear it.

i didnt use flex additive on mine.
also some people would use flex additive in the clear aswell.

by **eb2rodda** » December 31st, 2011, 10:29 am

LOW_XR wrote:if the rubber is fully rubbed back to the plastic id give it a nice coat of plastic primer.
then high fill primer with some flexaid additive in it.
then base with colour and clear it.

i didnt use flex additive on mine.
also some people would use flex additive in the clear aswell.

cheers dude , got all of the above and come up awsome ,
its been on for about 2 months now and not a crack,blister or chip in it anywhere,

cut the studs off the spoiler itself and slapped 'er on with stikaflex thanks to SNR

:drinks2: