colour coding bump strips

[knight85]

got a luna grey mk4 tdi fr, and am looking to colour code the bump strips. Was just wondering if anyone else has done this on their mk4?

Have had a quick troll through the readers ride and seen a few other Fr's but they are mainly zenith gray and black so the black bump strips dont look that obvious, whereas on my luna grey Fr they look very prominant.

Dont plan on doing any real exterior body work except for colour coding these....are they easy to do?

cheers

 

[st10587]

i done this on my black one! brings a certain class to the vehicle imo

 

[knight85]

yea just looked on ur thread.....looks good!

did u do it urself?

 

[st10587]

nope i had one on the lads in the bodyshop at work do it while he was doing some other work!

 

[knight85]

ahhh right.....im looking at maybe doing it myself...however if it wont cost a body shop too much i may ask them.....

any ideas on cost? or difficulty to do it yourself? i presume they would need sanding down and primed...

 

[RachIbiza]

got a luna grey mk4 tdi fr, and am looking to colour code the bump strips. Was just wondering if anyone else has done this on their mk4?

Have had a quick troll through the readers ride and seen a few other Fr's but they are mainly zenith gray and black so the black bump strips dont look that obvious, whereas on my luna grey Fr they look very prominant.

Dont plan on doing any real exterior body work except for colour coding these....are they easy to do?

cheers

First mod i did was buy a new set of side rub strips thru seat (as part of the deal when i bought the car from a dealers) got them sprayed and fitted and got it debadged only cost me about £40 quid, easier then doing it yourself. If you do wanna do it yourself its easier to buy new ones and do them off the car, then take the old ones off and fit the newly painted ones in my opinion! the new ones you can buy are not smooth tho so they will need rubbing down first, or the ones i got from the dealers did anyway! makes the car look a million times better!

 

[knight85]

ahh i see! i may ask a body shop to do it. Have a volkswagon bodyshop quite close to me so may enquire how much it would be for them to be colour coded luna grey!

it does make the car look so much nicer

 

[RachIbiza]

I say get it all debadged at the same time, but thats just the look i like!

 

[knight85]

hmmmm was thinking of getting the ibiza de-badged....but wanna keep the FR and tdi badges hahaha

hopefully it shouldnt cost too much to colour code, will enquire this week

 

[ibiza_1.4tdi]

i de-badged my silver ibiza fr tdi looks a lot better in my opinion, take a look at my readers ride thread:

http://www.seatcupra.net/forums/showthread.php?t=169730&highlight=ibiza+1.4tdi

its on page 2.

im thinking of colour coding the sides now, this forum cost mne so much money!!

 

[GlanzaV]

Are the bump strips bonded on or do the have clips underneath?? (I guess you mean the door strips?)

I had thought of just removing them if they were just stuck on?

 

[knight85]

yes i mean the door strips, didnt know how to describe them...hahaha

e-mailed my local volkswagon bodyshop about getting them colour coded...i await their response

 

[knight85]

First mod i did was buy a new set of side rub strips thru seat (as part of the deal when i bought the car from a dealers) got them sprayed and fitted and got it debadged only cost me about £40 quid, easier then doing it yourself. If you do wanna do it yourself its easier to buy new ones and do them off the car, then take the old ones off and fit the newly painted ones in my opinion! the new ones you can buy are not smooth tho so they will need rubbing down first, or the ones i got from the dealers did anyway! makes the car look a million times better!

how did it only cost u 40 quid?

just rang local volkswagon bodyshop they quoted me approx 200 quid for new rub strips and then spraying them!!!

 

[st10587]

how did it only cost u 40 quid?

just rang local volkswagon bodyshop they quoted me approx 200 quid for new rub strips and then spraying them!!!

They are ripping you off mine worked out costing £20 for new strips and a pint to spray them

 

[knight85]

hahaha yea, thats what i thought

just posted in part numbers section for the rub strip numbers.....then i can order them from stealers....presume they are quite cheap....then spraying cant be overly expensive...will speak to my seat dealer tomorrow

did u get ur rub strips from seat? or did you you use the current ones and just had them sanded down etc...and re-sprayed?

 

[st10587]

i had the new ones rubbed down plastic primed and painted so they are smooth and colour coded

 

[wazb]

any one know where i can get platinum paint in a spray can? think the code is LS7U, do halfords stock it? bought some bump strips a while back, rubbed them down but didnt get no paint rhe guy that sprayed my bumpers threw it away.

 

[st10587]

dealers will be able to sort you out i would have thought

 

[ScottHmk4]

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[Clone]

Saw you today drive past the police station i think mate?

Are they help on with clips or clue? How much did it cost from Simon?