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    Paintable??????

    My car has a mint exterior exept for black paint peeling around the back window. The dude a macco said you couldnt paint over the chrome. Wut do you guys think? Thanx for the info PEACE!



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    yea what do u guys think i was wondering too

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    From past experiences you could either scrape the paint off very carefully with a razor if most all of it is cracked, or you can also just touch it up with spray can paint or touch up. I know someone who scraped the paint off on a prelude, and someone else who painted it with touch up on a prelude, and they both looked fine.
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    It can be painted but it will not necesarrily stick for a long time. I wouldnt paint it unless it is not peeled too much.
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    my brother took the window trim off of his capri(smae material as the accord) and painted it black. It looks pretty good. He just used spray paint too.
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    i scraped mine off with a razor.
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    So after you kids skraped the black shit off of the chrome trim, did you re-paint or anything?

    I wouldn't mind skraping it off, and leaving it...I just wondered if it was prone to rust or anything like that.

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    No it won't rust...at least mine hasn't.

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    i personnaly don't like silver trim but yeah it wont rust. I would repaint them though because it looks better that way.
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    Mine is the same, I'm just gonna order all new rear trim from the Honda dealer, Its spendy but it will look brand new, so thats a plus.
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    i scraped mines off........came off pretty easy too....

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    paint wont stick unless you sand, primer it well beforehand.

    If you want, you can use a good quality black vynil tape over the exposed crome trim until you have enough money to buy new ones. It works trust me.

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