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 Pollywaffle
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 05:15 PM |
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Is a paint job like this...
Legal?
I'm wanting to do something a bit different to my notch. I was originally planning to paint it matte black but this caught my eye. Are you allowed to
show any bare metal? Even if its covered in some sort of lacquer?
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 05:17 PM |
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I cant see why not,its not rusty just bare metal,i think that looks better than flatt black
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 05:36 PM |
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yep paint has nothing to do with a faulty car and i like it to
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 05:46 PM |
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That looks awesome
As VWMAD said, it'll look way better than matt black (IMO).
Can't wait to see your thread if you do it. 
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 05:53 PM |
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I was at a custom car show at Queenscliff ( Geelong VIC) there was a car that was street registered, fully metal finished with a coat of clear over
the whole car, it looked insane!! could see that there wasn't a skerric of body filler, just pure raw metal.
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 06:28 PM |
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Don't see why not?
As long as it is covered in a lacquer type covering- should be ok?
Let me know if you need a hand sanding it back!
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 06:39 PM |
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You do have to have a colour on your registration. A bare metal car could be 'silver', a rusty car could be 'brown'. I think it is based on the
most prevalent colour, as lots of cars in years gone by have been multicoloured. Even our bus has different coloured flames, but the description is
the main colour.
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 06:43 PM |
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Doing it like that would be better than Matt black
What about doing it two tone.......top half bare metal, the bottom a colour 
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 07:02 PM |
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nice!
a ratty look that i like.... Finally
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 08:10 PM |
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What an awsome Rat, love the blue carried through to the interior. My favourite Rat I have ever.
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 08:16 PM |
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NICE!!!
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 09:22 PM |
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That paint job also has metal flake in the clear.
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 10:32 PM |
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Wet sand, cut and polish. Ankor Wax will also help with keeping this effect.
Check Jer-Fab's ride out.
http://www.jer-fab.com/blog/
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 10:57 PM |
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Check out the kombi in Issue 25 of VWMA, plenty of lacquer over bare metal there and it appears to have rego.
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 11:05 PM |
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I think I know what I'm doing this weekend then! My notch is a mustard colour at the moment. It has a light blue undercoat which I'll try and bring
out as much as possible. It won't look exactly like the above car, but I hope to get it very close.
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| posted on September 14th, 2010 at 06:33 AM |
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Paul at East Koast Kombis in West Gosford created that bus. I got to talk to him and the owner about it. He said they were always being pulled over by
the cops, but just so that they could get a closer look at it!
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| posted on September 14th, 2010 at 09:47 AM |
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As far as I'm aware, that paint job would not be legal in WA.
I can't remember the exact words, but here a car must have an "acceptable" paint job.
I assume that a rat that has "un-modified" paint is O.K., but to modify the paint to make a car "look like a rat", is I believe, illegal.
Personally I disagree.
Benjamin Franklin said, "You cannot legislate aesthetics."
In other words, what anything looks like cannot be enforceable in law. Look at all of the really ugly cars, office buildings and houses that are
completely legal. I doubt if a refusal to register that car here in WA would stand up in court. (I'm not a lawyer.)
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| posted on September 14th, 2010 at 12:11 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by OMClarke
Let me know if you need a hand sanding it back!
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Haha. Cheers for the offer! I'm not quite sure the best way to do it. I have a small electric 'mouse' sander which should be ok. But I have a
feeling it'll chew through the sandpaper pads. I've never done anything this drastic before and I'm a tad worried. Oh well.
I'll either be doing it on Saturday after work or on Sunday. I should be buying my new 914 rims after work on Saturday so I hope I have time after
that to at least start it.
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| posted on September 14th, 2010 at 12:41 PM |
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Ok, I have never even attempted this on a car or any painted metal, but I have done something very simmilar on painted timber (old furniture that I
wanted to give that look to ) I found the best way was to use a painters scraper (I can post a pic of it if you want) to get rid of as much of the top
coats as I needed to, and then smooth the rest, edges etc, and in some places down to bare timber with a small palm sander. Worked well on timber and
did not end up with mountains of clogget abrasive paper.
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| posted on September 14th, 2010 at 01:06 PM |
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I got nothing against rats, hell I was gonna build one myself and know several that stand out better than alot of show cars but sooner or later
someone will be complaining the council towed there car to the scrap yard thinking it was an abandoned vehicle
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| posted on September 14th, 2010 at 03:09 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Pollywaffle
| Quote: | Originally
posted by OMClarke
Let me know if you need a hand sanding it back!
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Haha. Cheers for the offer! I'm not quite sure the best way to do it. I have a small electric 'mouse' sander which should be ok. But I have a
feeling it'll chew through the sandpaper pads. I've never done anything this drastic before and I'm a tad worried. Oh well.
I'll either be doing it on Saturday after work or on Sunday. I should be buying my new 914 rims after work on Saturday so I hope I have time after
that to at least start it.
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Like I said - wet sand only, by hand. Then cut and polish it. Do a small section first to test it, then go the whole hog. The only way you'll really
get this right is by hand.
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| posted on September 14th, 2010 at 03:30 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by squizy
Like I said - wet sand only, by hand. Then cut and polish it. Do a small section first to test it, then go the whole hog. The only way you'll really
get this right is by hand.
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Brilliant. Will do! Thank you.
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| posted on September 14th, 2010 at 06:12 PM |
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im not sure if it will affect your ability to get it on the road.
but personally i reckon it sucks.
get a nice gloss black or something like a prismatique black
which looks black in the shade and then like a fleck of rainbow
in sun.Thats what i would do anyway.
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| posted on September 14th, 2010 at 08:15 PM |
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Hmmm. I'm only new around here so my opinion doesn't count but I'll say it anyway. I think it looks crap, but if everyone liked the same thing then
things would be boring.
Legal? Well I think so but I remember something about condition of vehicle compling with manufactures standard, something like that. I'll check it
out at work.
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| posted on September 14th, 2010 at 09:08 PM |
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Check what Jerry has done here. If you check the before and after shots, you can see the changes in the paint after a wet sand. After which he clear
coated.
http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=342031&postdays=0&po...
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| posted on September 15th, 2010 at 09:34 AM |
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Thank you jjwebb123 and Luke for your opinions. Just because you're new, doesn't mean your opinions don't count
Squizy, that is incredible. That clear coat...I just want to...lick it.
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| posted on September 15th, 2010 at 11:25 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Pollywaffle
That clear coat...I just want to...lick it.
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| posted on September 15th, 2010 at 11:35 AM |
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I like and the colour & on rego could be colour code UNK
unknown out of the 24 colour codes
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| posted on September 20th, 2010 at 01:30 PM |
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I started working on this on the weekend. At first I started sanding by hand with a block and it was taking FOREVER and no real results. I started
using an electric "mouse" sander which was working quite well at first. But after about 10 seconds all the paint clogs up the sandpaper and it
doesn't sand anymore. The paint seems to get very moist and "glug" up. It doesn't seem dry at all. This seems to be preventing me from sanding.
I think I'll have to use paint scrapers like Donn said to get as much off as possible. I was even thinking of a paint thinner to loosen it all up.
But I'm worried it'll take too much of the paint off. I'm quite new to all of this :P
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| posted on September 20th, 2010 at 01:42 PM |
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| Quote: | The paint seems to
get very moist and "glug" up. It doesn't seem dry at all. This seems to be preventing me from sanding.
I think I'll have to use paint scrapers like Donn said to get as much off as possible. I was even thinking of a paint thinner to loosen it all up.
But I'm worried it'll take too much of the paint off. I'm quite new to all of this :P
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It seems to be not dry because of the heat generated by the sanding process, depending on the type of paint it will go to a plastic state from the
heat, did you start with the hand sanding wet, and start with a course grade working down through the grades to a realy fine grade? I reckon thinners
will make a real mess of it that you may find impossible to rescue. Get yourself an old pannel to practice on first.
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