Anyone ever painted theirs? Mine are looking tired after 14 years and paint is beginning to part company with the plastic. Thinking about using paint stripper to remove the old coating then buffing up the black plastic underneath or simply re -spraying them the greyish colour. Any hints or tips much appreciated - don't want to go down the stick on covers route as the handles I did looked naff.

You will have to remove every last trace of the silver, it will not let anything stick to it, not even wrapping works unless all the silver has gone, paint will just fall off. If you use paint stripper you will damage the plastic, you have to sand off all the finish, the plastic then becomes hairy so you have to use finer and finer grit paper until it is smooth and flat...

It is a pig of a job and all four handle surrounds will probably take a whole day to sand, after you have removed them... Pete

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2014 L405 Autobiography SDV8 4.4 Loire Blue Ebony interior
2011 L322 Vogue SE 4.4 TDV8 Baltic Blue. Parchment over Navy Interior. Sold
2012 L322 Autobiography 5.0 Supercharged Ipanema Sand, Jet Interior. Sold
2002 L322 Vogue 4.4 V8 Epson Green, Ivory over Aspen Interior (Fatty Offroader) Sold
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There's a thread on this somewhere here. I have yet to do mine. Ron B. VK2OTC
2003 L322 V8 Auto
2007 Yamaha XJR1300
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There is some useful info here:

http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic37151.html

http://www.fullfatrr.com/forum/topic6627.html Ron B. VK2OTC
2003 L322 V8 Auto
2007 Yamaha XJR1300
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