Repainted cills, arches and front tray on the Tamora

[GlennT]

Took a leaf out of Mr Varley's bible and attacked the peeling paint in the arches on my Tamora, then cleaned up the cills and repainted those and used a bit of filler to get rid of a few scrapes to the edge of the under tray. Not quite up to his standards but I'm pleased with the results (even if no one can see the work). Used a fair bit of elbow grease, followed by stone chip paint, then gloss black, followed by clear lacquer.

Before work started, peeling paint and generally yuk!



Rear arch afterwards. Much better!





Cills were easy to clean up with thinners, then same as above black stone chip, black gloss and then clear lacquer.

Edited by GlennT on Friday 6th April 10:06

Edited by GlennT on Friday 6th April 10:10

[peteA]

Looks great...nice looking car too. This is on my to do list but will have to wait until next winter.

[peteA]

Looks great...nice looking car too. This is on my to do list but will have to wait until next winter.

So good in fact I thought I would tell you twice...bloody phones!

Edited by peteA on Saturday 7th April 12:02

[LaserTam]

I have been meaning to do this for a couple of years now, just never seem to get the time. Looks good.

How long did it take per wheel arch? Thinking if I could at least get one done at a time, might have a better chance of getting it done.

[GlennT]

Thanks for the comments. It took about 4 days in total spread over a few evenings and about 3 Saturdays. I found it was best to do a couple of hours at a time, otherwise you get bored/start bodging! The front undertray and eye brows took the longest with many applications of thin filler to get the grazes out.

I also changed the fixings for the headlight inspection panels in the front arches, they're now secured with stainless steel button bolts and stainless nuts glued into the arches, but if anyone has got a better suggestion for holding the nuts in place, gluing them with araldite wasn't that easy and they tended to come away when you started to tighten the bolts.

I used neoprene sheets to make covers for the spot light inspection holes, it looks much tidier than loads sikaflex holding those old gromet type things in place, but again securing the back nuts was difficult, in the end I used neoprene with a sticky backing, but I know this will pull the paint away anytime I need to get to the spotlights. All of the above are in Graham Varley's orange bible, so thanks to him for the ideas really.



Pic below is the nearside arch, you can just make the neoprene over the two spotlight inspection holes, and the bottom bolts holding the headlight cover in place.

Edited by GlennT on Friday 6th April 13:01

[kcc]

Hi Glenn, Top job that rear arch looks great, now do you or other PH's know what sort of paint you use on the brake calapers,to any jokers i know its yellow, but any ideas on make or type.

[Don1]

What a difference! Congratulations - it looks stunning.

[clive f]

nice job, looks excellent.

[Mr M]

Certainly looks alot better ; the rears being more visible. Did mine last year and going to do the fronts this year.

[Jon Brown]

Good job, what black paint did you use?