Re: [T3] Flogging a dead bead

["Dave Hall" <dave@hallvw.clara.co.uk>]

My 2p worth:

Don't paint over beading in position.  As the plastic moves, it will
crack at the edges and look wrong.  Get the paint into the gap
(unless they paint the wings off the car) and fit the beading after.
Black on white is not bad (black rubber trim round windows and
gaskets on lights).  If you want to paint the beading,  mask and use
an air-brush; the odd bit of touching up if paint chips off the
beading will not look as bad as the cracks all along the plastic
edge from painting both at once.

Dave.
UK VW Type 3&4 Club
www.hallvw.clara.net/
-----Original Message-----
From: David Yaghoubian <goob@dnai.com>
To: type3@vwtype3.org <type3@vwtype3.org>
Date: 21 October 1998 01:32
Subject: [T3] Flogging a dead bead


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>
>1) If I go with the white TI beading, I still have the painter
spray over
>it right? I mean, I guess I could take out all the old beading and
let them
>paint the car without any beading in place, but then the color of
the TI
>beading would would be off (the stock color is more of an antique
>yellow-white) when I fitted it after the paint job. Also, I would
be
>worried about the loose fenders moving around and touching the body
while
>they were spraying. So, wouldn't it be best to put the new TI
beading on
>before the paint job if properly cleaned? It will be a urethane
paint,
>which Jim and others commented sticks pretty well.
>
>2) How ugly (if at all)  do you folks think it would look to have
the
>(unpainted) TIII black beading on a white car? ;)
>
>3) Does anyone think the black beading, if cleaned and installed
properly
>before the paint job, would work better than the TI white stuff I
would
>have to cut out and fit myself?
>
>How about someone just TELL ME WHAT TO DO so I can get my car
sprayed and
>quit flogging this dead horse? :) This is the last thing hanging me
up, but
>I can't figure it out.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Dave Y.
>
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