Alright, so I posted a thread about this a while ago That thread is here.
The side sills or whatever you want to call the really see a lot of battle damage.
After removing and painting them when I got my 00GTP sedan, 7 years later they were looking pretty ratty. Faded, chalky looking, despite using good quality paint and clearcoat.
This time around, I decided to wrap the in black vinyl. I got some that looks a lot like a thick paintjob, not quite orange peel but not super smooth (it will help hide the inevitable scratches, I'm hoping.).
Some folks in my original thread thought the vinyl might make it hard to fit the side sills back in, but one piece of vinyl is not much thicker than a fresh coat of paint.
Anyhow here's what I wound up with- be sure to get plenty of vinyl when you order so that you don't wind up feeling like a nimrod like I did when I ran short of vinyl.
I began by removing my side sill thingies- my car is a sedan, the coupe is probably a little different.
I sanded them down and applied a bit of glazing/ spot putty to get them ready for primer.
Then I masked them off and shot some primer on 'em.
I also removed the weatherstripping from these pieces along the way, rear one shown with tabs bent to remove weatherstripping.
Here's the first one done, it went really smoothly and I'm please with the outcome.
Here they are on the car, they look great in person and once cleaned/ waxed will hopefully last longer than the paint job I gave them.
I'm a DIY kind of guy but wasn't sure how to wrap something in vinyl so I checked out YouTube.
This is the best vid I found that explains how to work with this stuff- just get a hair dryer and an Exacto Blade and go to town, it will come out looking great
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