[Rapson]

Hi All,
I am looking at painting my zuk.

I have done a few repair jobs in the past but have never tackled painting a whole car.

If any one can offer any advice, tips or tricks it would be most appreciated, and I'm sure a few others will benifit also.

Also any good online suppliers as in Nth Qld the local auto shop is a bit light in parts and a bit heavy on price.

Thanks

[Sp4rX]

* if you are doing a repair always use primer over the repair !!
* painting metallic ?? always wet rub the car with a fine grade abbrassive like 800 wet and dry (but obviously wet)
* prepsol the surface before you paint it, it gets rid of all the shit from your fingers and use a lint free towell to do it as it will collect loose dust etc
* make sure u do the little parts that fold under the guards cuz otherwise it will look stupid.
* to make stickytape stick... give the area a quick clean and prepsol.
* if its shiny. its not ready to paint. if its an even dull sort of texture. go for it.
* the way your job looks will more reflect on the prepwork than anything else so make sure its good.
* when your painting MOVE YOUR BODY !!, dont think that you have to stand in one spot like a robot.
* for large areas eg. roof, bonnet. paint them half at a time.
* make sure you always have even air pressure and its not going up and down.

if i think of anything else ill let u know dude.

[rodw]

I had a go at this and had never done this before. Happy with the result. I found some good reference books on the misc page here:
http://www.suzukiinfo.com/
I found a good supply shop who gave me some good advice (and took some money off me too!

[Rapson]

Thanks for the tips guys.
I will post some pics of my work but it wont be until after Xmas and I have stopped a little of the smoke coming off the credit cards!