Accidentally sanded and over sprayed my rubber window trims. Options

[bccentaur3]

I have been spending a couple of weeks doing body work on my car. Cutting out rust and adding sheet metal on it and removing dents. I ended up sanding the entire car down and as I was doing so I accidentally ended sanding my rubber window trims. So I basically scuffed the crap out of them. When applying some white primer on bare metal I over sprayed on the trims too. So I spent last night looking up products to help restore it vs. going out and buying all new window trims.

Heres what I found

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Will this work? I mean it seems like it will cover up the over spray but will it help out on the scuffs?

Any ideas whould be appreciated.

[playr158]

use a higher grit sandpaper on your trims, then tape off the WHOLE car (pretty much) and then repray your trim black using KRYLON plastic paint (black)

[NaderG]

i have the same problem , when i baught my car , it had all kinds of scuffs and scractches on the window trim , the black gel will make them look a little less obvious but u will still be able to see the damamge , that also depends on how bad its damaged ...

[bccentaur3]

Thanks a lot man. I was thinking of that but thought that the paint would just flake on me.

[vsideboy]

When I bought my car, whoever had machine polished it ready for me picking it up from the dealer did an absolute bag of crap polish, ended up sanding loads of the trim that goes over the doors and some of the trim around the windscreem away.

it really annoys me cos I look after my cars really well and then some dumbass who doesn't know what they are doing goes and does that grrr!!! shouldn't be allowed to operate a machine polisher if they don't know what they are doing.

[bccentaur3]

Dude I would be totally mad if someone else did that to my car. I feel soo stupid for doing this to my car, but i'll hopefully have it fixed when this crappy weather stops.

[vsideboy]

used some wet and dry sandpaper and just about got it smoothed back again. Need to recolour it now thats all.

Temporarily put some megs tyre gel on them and they look ok for now as I'm busy modding other stuff on it so don't have time for this.

I am so busy at the moment that I have to use my 30minute lunch at work to do mods, was wet sanding these rubbers down the other day, and did the tyre stuff the following day haha.

all this with a mouthful of sandwich :lol:

[bccentaur3]

LOL, Yeah wet sanding the sucker helped out a lot. Some scratched still are present but smooth. All I have left to do is color it and it will be good to go.

[vsideboy]

well let me know what you end up using mate, either a dye or paint as I will try to do mine at some point.

[bccentaur3]

I think I'm going to go with what PLayr said. Krylon. hopefully it won't flake. I'm afraid the dye won't have a glossy finish. I'll let you know how it turns out when I have the time to finish atleast. Working 2 jobs to do the gt4 front end conversion.

This post has been edited by bccentaur3: Jun 4, 2007 - 2:06 AM