Painted side mirrors

[AustinB]

Hey guys... Took off my mirror covers today to paint them body color... Scuffed them up real good and threw on some primer and a few coats of paint. Letting them cure overnight and a few more coats in the morning, I'm excited. Question for the ones who have also painted theirs.... Did you sand the primer smooth prior to painting? Or did you leave it with the textured look?

 

[Rzrman328]

Left mine textured.

 

[bigolayne]

Sanded mine but it didn't matter. When I started painting my daughters came in the garage and bumped the table; covers fell on the ground and got nice and sandy. Lol, gotta love the kids

 

[Limeybastard]

I sometimes do wet sand my primer before applying color coat. But since the primer came out smooth I didn't bother, final out come was smooth finish. I did wet sand the clear coat however.

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[AustinB]

Bigolayne, that seems about right.. Where I'm from, you cant paint anything unless you're in an air locked room. A bug or two is guaranteed to land right in your wet paint.


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[AustinB]

Well here's the final product after painting the mirrors and removing the black vinyl on the pillars.


After


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[bigolayne]

Looking real nice...

 

[hankRam2015]

Night and day difference. Looks awesome

 

[AustinB]

Thanks!


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[Am3gross]

that looks really good, great job!

 

[gassersarentdead]

I actually like the before better.

 

[Rzrman328]

Looks like it came out good.

But I have to agree with gasser...at least on the black pillar portion as I just made mine black.

 

[Drummin4jc]

I think the white looks good! Nice work!

Adam

 

[AustinB]

Hopefully it's just the pictures.. The before pic is much better quality. Just saying it looks much better in person . I appreciate the opinions though, good thing is that nothing is permanent.


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[JExpress14]

I want to paint match mine but I'm always worried about the fact almost all my driving for work is highway driving and I feel like they'll get destroyed

Edit:looks good, would've looked better with black pillars though lol :********:

 

[gassersarentdead]

Yeah, doing both is just too much for me. Isn't mine though.

 

[AustinB]

Maybe I'll get tired of it and swap some things around like the chrome ones..



And then I was thinking about something like this also...


Or


Or both... Whatcha think?

Edit: kidding.


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[maple]

Was it hard to take off the mirror cover?

 

[AustinB]

No it's very simple. 3 screws.

If you do a google, someone has a writeup on how to remove them, it takes 1 min/side


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[nikeaddict]

Nice! It turned out great!