Painting the mouldings on an A2 is a real PITA.  I helped prep 2 of the cars 
that were with me at H2O4 last year(the blue G60 and the green 16V), and let 
me tell you...the amount of prep work involved is not to be underestimated.  
Between the bumpers and flares, figure 20-30 man-hours per car.  This 
obviously doesn't include the door mouldings.  If you guys saw the silver A2 
GTI VR6 with the Z-Engineering charger in PVW, that car was done by the same 
guys, though I did not have a hand in it.  I had considered doing this to my 
car, but after going through it twice, I changed my mind.

-Dave
'91 Jetta GTX 16V
'88 Jetta GLI 16V
'84 Vanagon


In a message dated 8/12/01 11:34:27 PM US Eastern Standard Time, 
[email protected] writes:


> A lot of the cars I have seen 
> still have the stock ground effects and wheel flares, but they are painted 
> body color.  How is that possible?  The ground effects on my car are 
> textured and would not give off a smooth finish like i have seen.  Were 
> smooth ground effects ever available?  If I could I would love to paint all 
> things on my car that are black red to match the body color, any clues as 
> to 
> how to do it?  


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