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Thoughts while washing my car

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2004GrandPrixGT1

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I was thinking today of possibly painting or doing something with the area where the lower valences are on the 97-03's to my 04. I just have no idea what, possibly sand it smooth and paint it, or something. Any ideas?

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The dark grey area underneath the license plate. Anyone have any creative ideas?
 




I had a jetta before buying my GP (that thing had a worse tranny than the 4T65, the dreaded 01M) that had some crazy view changing window tint where if you looked at it from above it was like a 5% tint and from the side it looked almost stock. I had black rims, lower weather striping and blacked tails on that and it looked pretty good, for a jetta. So if i did any color itd be either silver or black i think, has anyone ever seen the newer body styles with the lower valences painted the color of the car? My friend suggested that but idk cuz ive never seen it.
 
Did you take yours off too paint? Hows the color holding up, i know when i did my jettas weather striping i put 3-4 coats on and 3 coats of clear and it started to come off after like 5-6 months.
 
that might be because you laid it on to heavy if you use plastic paint or automotive paint and do 2-3 light coats you should be fine mines holding up great lasred all winder and still looks the same and i just used black plastic paint from autozone lol didn't feel like bringing it into the shop and tape it all out and mix the paint to do them so i did it at my house. and no i didn't take it off just jacked it up and put it on jack stands to make it a little easier. and did you sand your last one before you sprayed the color? if not that's why. if you do this wet sand it with 600 grit
 


Okay sweet, I would be willing to put time into it to make it as smooth as the body but im not sure if it would be worth it, i think its pretty coarse right now but i can get it pretty smooth. Think it'd be worth putting the time into?
 
2004GrandPrixGT1 said:
Okay sweet, I would be willing to put time into it to make it as smooth as the body but im not sure if it would be worth it, i think its pretty coarse right now but i can get it pretty smooth. Think it'd be worth putting the time into?
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yea i mean if its coarse wet sand it with 220 first then go to 320 or 400 then 600 it shouldn't take to long. just tape off the silver so you dont sand your paint while your working on the valances if your not use to wet sanding
 


that might look alright to but the paint to match your car would be more expensive and you have to spray it from a spray gun. my friend has a white GTP and his lower valance is white and doesn't look bad
 
I can get the paint in cans from Oreilly's they match the color from the VIN, comes in a normal spray can, but it is 6.99 as apposed to the cheaper 4.99 at my store. Needless to say i've spent quite a good amount of time in that isle in the past.
 
not bad at all for only $6.99 but its up to you man its your car but if you go for a blacked out look id go with black front and rear valance
 
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