all painters out there can someone tell me how you get the paint into the grilles under the rear oval section of a beetle as i have seen some cars and the paint inside is very well done.and i have seen some bad ones.i dont want a bad one.

rob

[ Edited on 14-11-2005 by glider69 ]

Good question, I too would like to know the answer to this one!

Cheers

Me too.
Rob...

i think we all need to think about this one maybe its a painters secret,wheres hellbus when u need him i think he is a painter

CALLING ALL PAINTERS please reply any info would be greatly appreciated i think this would apply to all vw's as most off them have a grilled section somewhere on them

rob

helbus & dubcrazy are painters..

Personally I don't think it is something that could ever be done perfect unless the metal underneath was perfectly prepped and clean.

Then again nothing is impossible it just takes patience, skill and money or a combination of any two of those.

If I spent many many hours prepping and cleaning in there, and then carefully set the spray gun with the correct direction, feed and pressure, and mixed the paint to the right consistency then I could do it. It is a gut feeling thing, a skill, unfortunatley if you don't have the eye or the knack, then there are no special rule books to help.

i'v also hears of it being done bu removing the inner louver and bonding it back in after its painted seperate from the car - u can bond it is because it recieves no wear, and it dosent cause it to distort cant be welded in because the paint has to be removed for that

what if you taped and coverd the outter area of the beetle (around the grill) then proceed to paint in there this way is you do accidently spray too close to the outter vent its coverd and wont get a paint run on it just an idea

Use a small airbrush. Takes a while but it works.