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Old Jan 18, 2012 | 03:35 AM
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yea as long as you take your time shake your paint and clear coat and wetsand after everything is dry it does

i ended up having to redo the bottom piece because i tryed to rush it and messed it up
Old Jan 19, 2012 | 07:15 PM
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I got mine done n it looks nice but doesn't really have the same texture... idk if I should redo it or hus leave it =/
Old Jan 19, 2012 | 08:10 PM
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what texture does it have??
Old Jan 19, 2012 | 10:33 PM
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A bit of roughness but its most definitely because I didn't wet sand it down, didn't think it need to. Yea so I'm most likely gonna fix it soon.
Old Jan 20, 2012 | 08:06 PM
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try to wet sand it before you completely redo it get some 1000 gritt and try that if you cant get anywhere with that try the next step down i wouldnt go any less then 400 gritt but thats just me you risk pulling paint on the edges
Old Jan 21, 2012 | 12:37 AM
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Thanks bro appreciate it a lot, when I'm done.ill def post up pics
Old Jan 21, 2012 | 12:54 AM
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cool I appreciate the support
Old Feb 20, 2012 | 01:30 AM
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sweet write up i'm gonna color match all my interior pieces or wrap them with white carbon fiber vinyl, haven't decided yet
Old Mar 24, 2012 | 07:08 PM
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Sweet stuff. Get the scion emblem red as well? ;D
Eh, it'd probably look weird.
Old Mar 25, 2012 | 02:43 AM
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idk i think i may do it like my emblem and an fyi this is on my old OG 2011 tc i did things alittle different with my new one check my build plus ill post pics of my front emblem and let you see what it looks like i may do the same with my horns
Old Mar 26, 2012 | 01:18 AM
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need to post pics of mine. i did it super white
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Old Apr 3, 2012 | 06:19 PM
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guess i should post new pics since i just did this on my new tC
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Old Apr 3, 2012 | 06:29 PM
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havn't posted mine ha... lolz

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Old Apr 4, 2012 | 02:49 AM
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looks good you going to blue LED the ____ outta it now?
Old Apr 4, 2012 | 08:18 AM
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which light/lights?
Old May 14, 2012 | 11:58 PM
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Nice job.
Old Jun 7, 2012 | 03:42 PM
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My Original steering.

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how'd you do that?
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i screwed up one section of the interior trim. how to do i strip the paint without ruining the plastic? any tips guys? and all of those interiors look amazing!
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Originally Posted by yardleyTC
i screwed up one section of the interior trim. how to do i strip the paint without ruining the plastic? any tips guys? and all of those interiors look amazing!
sorry it took so long to reply the best way to remove paint is to either use paint thinner let it soak (this is really only good if its within the first 12 hours) but to get rid of dry paint the easiest way it to wet sand with 320 grit sand paper till smooth then switch to a finner paper like 800 or 1000 then repaint and do just like you would before



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