Dang if today I didn't swipe it against a curbstone I forgot was there.
I guess this happens to a lot of xB's, especially lowered.
Well, it is only plastic. I'll be hanged if I'll get upset, or pay money, to have the lip "properly" repainted.

In fact... I think I have a better plan. You will prolly laugh. That's why I pose this up this way. However, consider this: if we (ME) has a tendency to scrape once, then it's gonna happen again and again. Oaf.


Picture of the boo boo in a few minutes. I am thinking "sunbeam yellow" from a Krylon Fusion can for a fix.



yup!

 

You got nothing to lose by just getting an estimate. You might want to at least do that before you throw spray paint on there.

 

is it small enough to use touch up paint from scion? They sent me a bottle free for the RS1. Right after my wife scuffed the rear lip too!

 

are u sure that color spray paint will go with the car?

 

Yes that is the opposite sorta of my question to self: is this yellow you see on the cheap wheel covers -different enough- to make a deliberate two-tone look.
See guys, if I spend money to shop paint that lip it's only gonna get scratched again in a month or three.

IF I do the Krylon thing and it doesn't look good to me then nothing was lost but five bucks on paint and a piece of 400 grit.

If the color makes fine contrast (it will key to the wheel covers, see. This sample pic cannot show that the Sunbeam Yelllow is about several shades richer than the car yellow.

I"ll be carrying the theme all the way around the car: rocker lips and lower rear lip. That's my hope.

We'll see! Then I've got "immunity" from worry about scraping #@($# ground-lowered lips and maybe make a funny car look even a little more ____ or whatever. I just like it as a small, go-kart car to have fun with and this is why I color the snap on covers... for style without projecting macho image: the macho is inside see?

Here: fresh shot at night to show how the Fusion yellow is a notably deeper but related hue of yellow. Imagine this running around the entire lower perimeter of the car... with the covers adding to the "deliberate" look. I hope hopehope

 

ok I get what your saying go for it

 

and this being a "single stage" paint, I have the option to color sand it level and polish with compound.

The problem with retail grade aerosol paints, esp. when sprayed outside, is the variability of texture. Under ideal conditions (luck), the Fusion lays out about as flat as any spray can paint. Sometimes not.. one batch-run I tried was unusably pithy due to poor quality control at Krylon. OTOH, being a very light bright color and being down low it's really not critical to get that perfect gloss....it just is not noticable if the paint is a bit orange peely. For instance, in real life this cover just looks -muy fino-. In flash photography you see all the peel, is all.

laters,
reid

 

dont wash it for a few weeks, and your set....but yeah, the caps were silverish before you painted them, and the lip is black, so when you spray it on the lip it is gonna come out darker, so please remember it

 

Thanks for that tip but this Fusion paint is really quite good and sturdy enough in a few hours. Dry to touch in a few minutes. Hard enough to sand in a day or less.

It's not much like other paints I've used in the past.
Yah, though, I hear you other guys sayin "don't cheap out" but... won't I feel like one of Bugs Bunnie's "maroons" if I pay $ and then scrape it again? Yup I will. With Fusion, it's so simple to wet sand out a scrape on a wheel cover and respray and slap the cover back on two hours later and just drive.

These F1 tires have zero sidwall bulge so if I ever get too near a curb these covers get the mark. And this is another reason I won't go for sweet alloy wheels. I'd ruin them, running tires like this without sidewall protectors.

thanks all- when/if I get arond to painting the lip I'll update with another pic. And if it looks sunny good then I will do the rockers... maybe!

 

I feel your pain, not sure if this helps but this is what I did.(bigger pics in myprofile) https://www.scionlife.com/forums/vie...736&highlight=

 

I did the same thing to mine...but not near as bad as yours. Why not paint them black? A nice gloss black lip, front and back, and the sideskirts too! That would look soo good next to the yellow. And if you scrape it again, it won't be as noticable! Just a thought.

 

Paint the front lip and side skirts flat black.

 

Thought about doing this black treatment. But I think it will make the car look like it rides higher.

See a yellow/black Hummer H2 for comparison.

hmmm...!

 

maybe this shot just made shows the yellow better. Hard to photograph shades.



Is there any tip or trick togetting the lower lip off? It appears I'll need to jack up the car to make room for my arm. The lower bolts are off and some of the honeycomb is unsnapped. And I finally figured where the tow bolt screws in to the front end. (never read manuals, ha)

 

The problem with painting it yellow and not having a "perfect" match being pretty close to the original color will make it look like you had it painted by a shop and they didn't match it right. What I mean is it will look like you took it to a shop and they "screwed it up" and didn't match it right. I say if you want that affect, you should go with a brighter shade or darker shade to really offset it. Otherwise it will look like a "cheap" fix. Comprende?

 

Yes I comprede and think that way too. However in real life view the yellows are shades apart, more than one shade apart. And if I like the lip in Fusion's yellow and carry this theme all around the lower skirt it should not look like a bunged job.

dunno.. gotta try it before I or anyone else should buy into the idea.

the appeal of course is that I won't be worried when I scrape a lip again. It'll happen again. It will

I'm going ----lower---. (TeinUSA is helping me achieve xtra lowering than the Basic kit gives on its own)

thanks slipknot,

reid

 

Here is a yellow H2 Hummer. I see many of these on Miami streets. Photos mess up yellows. I like Hummers yellow maybe best of all the current yellows.

Photo hints why blacking the lips of an xB would probably make the car appear higher off the ground



I wish I had a spray can of Hummer's yellow to try out. It would give me that real two-tone look around the xB's lower perimeter.

Have a new rear bumper fascia to install (the OEM one has a hole punched in it by some guy's exhaust tip when he backed into my car)

The new fascia is black, unpainted. I -will probably dry fit it before painting and get a photo of the effect of "black" for the main rear bumper... but will want, prolly, to keept he rear lower lip yellow for the ground effects look of it.

Often we can't tell what will work until trying it out in real life. Not even photoshop is the final arbiter. Not even a photo. You just have to see it in 3D. That's where I am right now: trying to imagine and trying to get the #%$ front lip off.

Gotta jack up,
laters,
r

 

home made motto for my rear window , particularly if I do a black rear bumper fascia:

 

I scraped up my front lip too, albeit it was not as deep as yours. I just masked up the front and sprayed with the lip on the car. It blended in pretty well.

 

yeah, great job then: we don't sweat the tiny things and good enough is fine for a place so much out of the eye's direct focus.

What paint did you find? Did you use factory paint or find a spray can close enough?
I wonder whether any of the many aerosol can paints would be flexible enough to stay long on the lip? Maybe if applied thin.

no big whoop.. I'm taking off the lip to get the whole thing in my hands for easier sanding down, and just to see how it looks "properly" prepped for painting all over. It will be a lot easier to wield the spray can, too, with the lip held in hand or on bucks.