Paint question
 

Posted this in new members forum. Repainting ny 1993 R1. Deciding what to do with the stone guard on the bottum. Assuming it's vinyl. If so does it come off easily? Should I keep it as the car is original except exhaust. Will removing it change the value of the car down the road? Thanks for your input. Darren

well, if you're looking for resale value then keep it the stock color. The reason isn't so much the VALUE of the car as a whole, it's the fact that when you go with a repaint you have to pay quite a bit of money to do it right. You'll never get that money back when you resell the car.

As far as the stone guard, I assume you're talking about the black lip on the FD. Remove it if you want and then reinstall it when you resell. It looks kinda weird without it though.

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Also, check the link "FSM" in my sig for info on the removal of the lip.

Keeping it the original color . The guard I'm referring to is all along the bottum 4 or 5 inches of the car down the side where the paint isn't smooth

Leave it on...its there for a reason. Think of it this way, Less work sanding it off.

Keepiing it the original color. The guard I'm referring is along the bottum 4 or 5 inches of the car down the side. Paint has a heavy orange peel look

Thanks-that was my thought. My friend who's going to paint the car didn't like it but he's a viper owner..

I love the factory rock guard :icon_tup:

How do you prep the rock gaurd in order to repaint it?

I am not a fan of the rock guard and removed it on my silver car.

I never liked the rock guard. I had the body shop remove it when they painted my former silver fd. I don't understand why they put it there anyway. It looks ugly and the paint chips mostly on the bumper and hood anyway.

are you all talking about the lip?

no, the rock guard is a 3-5in strip of textured paint on the FD that runs down the side of the car at the very bottom.

lol, I was confused and thought it was the lip too!

Yeah, that shit's hella ugly, so remove the textured paint, but keep it the same color!

The rock gaurd is just a different type of paint. To remove it, just sand the paint off and re-spray.

Usually on customer FD's I strip it off the door, but leave it on the actual rocker panel....IMO its applied too far up. Taking it off the door leaves a smooth look to the side, but you still get protection underneath.

You don't.....you can scuff the paint on top of it with a scotch brite pad so you get in the nooks/crannys of the gravel gaurd, but thats about it. If you want to do it properly you strip it all off, do all your body work and apply fresh stuff over the primer just before paint, its designed to be painted right over :)