Painting Water bottle

[rickprice]

How do I get the water bottle (screen wash) out from the bloody car? Its lost all its paint and is an eyesore when you look at the front of the car.

I could mask off the bodywork and spray everything black, but I was thinking of a more elegant and thorough tidy-up if it were possible?


Rich


p.s., its a y2000 Chimaera with the 'split' radiator hole.

Edited by rickprice on Wednesday 7th September 20:55

[TJC46]

Its attached to a bracket on the inner wing.The bottle is a push fit onto this. You will have to remove the filler hose then push the bottle upwards to slide it off the bracket.Now undo the washer tube off the pump, and disconnect the wiring, persevere twisting and turning but it does come out thru the front. Once out the pump is a push fit into the bottle, so this can then be removed. Dont know what its like on your chim, but mines just white plastic, its not painted in any way.

[showcase]

my one is painted black. I also have noticed some of the paint flaking away.I was planning on using black BBQ paint ( high temp resistant ). To touch it up. Im sure you can get some sort of straw attachment for the can that will reach through the front splitter. This should save removing the bottle from its holder.
Its one of the small winter jobs i was planning.

[rickprice]

Update:

I ended up masking everything off and spraying matt black paint.

Seems to have done the job nicely. Also got to spray the horns as well, which were a dull grey colour.

Total about 10 mins.


Rich