looks ok to me....proper job
silver air vents
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I have just sprayed the window de-misting air vents.
I have already done the air vent pegs in aluminium colour, as the rest of the interior is in aluminium colour, so I did not think the Ghia type chrome tipped pegs would match.
The closest colour I could get to match the aluminium colour of the car was Halfords Volkwagon Reflex silver. I had just bought a brand new gear knob, and it is an almost exact match to the silver on that (I took off the gear knob and took it into halfords with me :} .
I think the de-misters look nice in the silver colour, and are more of a feature than the standard black. But, they can reflect in the windscreen sometimes, so I will see if this annoys me too much before I decide if they are staying in the car.
Just thought I would put up some pics, to see what anyone else thinks of them. The quality is not brilliant, as I took the pics on my iphone.
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I have already done the air vent pegs in aluminium colour, as the rest of the interior is in aluminium colour, so I did not think the Ghia type chrome tipped pegs would match.
The closest colour I could get to match the aluminium colour of the car was Halfords Volkwagon Reflex silver. I had just bought a brand new gear knob, and it is an almost exact match to the silver on that (I took off the gear knob and took it into halfords with me :} .
I think the de-misters look nice in the silver colour, and are more of a feature than the standard black. But, they can reflect in the windscreen sometimes, so I will see if this annoys me too much before I decide if they are staying in the car.
Just thought I would put up some pics, to see what anyone else thinks of them. The quality is not brilliant, as I took the pics on my iphone.
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Good job. I wonder how they'd look in chrome 
Here is a pic of the peg from the back
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You can just pull them off, but you have a fifty percent change of breaking the lugs, and then can't reuse the peg, plus it only takes a few seconds to take the vent out properly.
You can just pull them off, but you have a fifty percent change of breaking the lugs, and then can't reuse the peg, plus it only takes a few seconds to take the vent out properly.
Cleaned them to remove any traces of grease.
Sprayed two coats of Halfords primer,
Two coats of silver,
Then one good coat of lacquer.
The paint needs the lacquer coat to become the exact right colour, plus I didn't want the silver to wear off in use, and the lacquer will protect it.
It may have been better to use a satin lacquer, but I already had gloss, so used that (the door handles are finished in a satin effect).
Hope that helps
Sprayed two coats of Halfords primer,
Two coats of silver,
Then one good coat of lacquer.
The paint needs the lacquer coat to become the exact right colour, plus I didn't want the silver to wear off in use, and the lacquer will protect it.
It may have been better to use a satin lacquer, but I already had gloss, so used that (the door handles are finished in a satin effect).
Hope that helps
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