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To De-lock or not to De-lock
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 11:25 pm
by claymore68
Evening chaps,
After some superb advice and helpful direction I have now resprayed my alloys with reasonable results and my front and rear lip (motegi) however I have this little issue which thanks to the courier
I now have to deal with.
So the question is can I fix this myself and if so how? or do I go down the route of de-locking it.
thanks in advance for any input
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 11:38 pm
by RattyMcClelland
Remove the lock and sand the rust out and respray the whole boot. Put lock back in.
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 11:43 pm
by claymore68
RattyMcClelland wrote:Remove the lock and sand the rust out and respray the whole boot. Put lock back in.
Dont think I can do that with rattle cans
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 11:45 pm
by Crazy_C
You can paint that back in with rattle cans, just depends on how good you are with rattle cans really
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 11:54 pm
by claymore68
Crazy_C wrote:You can paint that back in with rattle cans, just depends on how good you are with rattle cans really
Im getting better but would be well nervous about cocking that up.
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 11:55 pm
by Crazy_C
Try it, if it works, huzzah, if you gentleman's sausage it up, you'll just be back at square 1, but at least with the rust protected.
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 11:57 pm
by claymore68
YouTube lessons here I come
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Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 8:10 am
by lewd lude lover
take the spoiler off and use the hidden area beneth to hide your paint line.
Or just pick the worst out with an awl (pointy thing) and touch up. this will be ok for a couple of years at least.
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 8:25 am
by BMCC
I'm thinking about doing just the same thing. Delock, debadge etc you can still open the boot from the inside of the car and it may be possible to get a boot opener on your alarm (if you have one of course!).
Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 9:16 am
by craig_jdm
lewd lude lover wrote:take the spoiler off to probably find hidden area of rust beneth
Or just pick the worst out with an awl (pointy thing) and touch up. this will be ok for a couple of years at least.
