StevieB

What sort of results have people had with spraying items such as spoilers themselves with spraycans? All the paint / lacquers are available cheaply at Halfords and this compares to the pro painter coming in at around £100ish. Have spent several summers respraying the rotting valances/doors of my first car.... pea green metro, so the quality of workmanship really didnt matter , so it wont be my first attempt.

OllyK

Fine on a knackered metro, but if you brought those near my car you'd be leaving with them up your as*. Pay the £100 and get the job done right else it will look a right pigs ear

dnb

I've got some quite good finishes with spray cans before now, but I find the cellulose based cans always look a bit flat when next to the original paint.

£100 isn't bad for a proper job

OllyK

I think that's the point. If you are happy with that, then fine. Personally I wouldn't be, up to you!

StickyMicky

no
as a genral rule, dont spray anything above the doors center line with cans, its far more visible to the naked eye then sumthing under the swage line

ive sprayed whole cars with spray cans, it once cost me about £30 to do a colour change on a nova but the amount of buffing and polsishing that has to go on afterwards to get a half decent finnish is crazy, a spoiler will need lots of work to look half decent due to the large numbers of reflections and stuff you would expect to see on one

David_Dickson

I sprayed my spoiler with cans and wish I hadnt!

Its a Vauxhall metallic green, and the finish looks pretty good, except the colour match is quite random. On a sunny day if you look at it from a certain angle its perfect, but move a few degrees round and its blatantly a different colour.
It also looks terrible under artificial lights like on a petrol station forecourt.

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Color is probably one of the key things to if it'll look ok or not. Metallics and pearlesants make for even trickier matching.

However I have got very good results, last time I repaired a large scuff/scratch on the corner of the bumper on my dads Rover (Nightfire red - he gave me the spray cans and said "do it" and I said "I'll take no responsibility to how crap it'll look" )

Managed to get a perfect match and it blended so well I couldn't see when the old paint met the new. Although it took alot of polishing to get the texture right.

Typically, I tried the same on my scoob after an argument with the sideskirt and a curb at a KFC drive-thru And I made a right hash of it, completely the wrong shade, and to cap it off the laquer started going yellow with age

So, to sum it up, it's a bit hit and miss really

stephen emery

LOL

www.chavscum.co.uk

civictyper

Don't do it !!

I completely fcuked up an old escort years ago and ended up paying someone to redo my cockup.

As said before colour matching is really difficult and someone that has a proper setup will be able to mix the colour to match any fade or colour variations.

To get a good finish also involves an almost anorak approach too as the polishing/sanding etc is painstaking.

I'm no expert but have experienced the dark side of DIY paint jobs so would advise you to pay your money and get a proffesional job. You'll be happier for it I'll guarantee.