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Coffs Harbour, NSW
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November 2004
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Sydney
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August 2004
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Sat, 06 August 2005 08:29
 
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colouring in is fun
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Location:
wollongong NSW
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August 2003
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Sat, 06 August 2005 14:44
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if you need the bump strips go red, black is crap
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Location:
Sydney, Northern Beaches
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February 2005
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Sat, 06 August 2005 15:36
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Red looks tidy
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Bulleen, Melbourne
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June 2002
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Sun, 07 August 2005 01:13
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Rip em off mate. I did on my old seca, looks so much cleaner, gets rid of the crappy 80's look!
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Location:
Coffs Harbour, NSW
Registered:
November 2004
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Sun, 07 August 2005 01:17
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yeah, im just worried about there being heaps of old glue there, and what i could get it off with
any suggestions?
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Location:
Bulleen, Melbourne
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June 2002
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Sun, 07 August 2005 01:22
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Takes a little work with eucalyptus oil and wax/grease remover, but you'll get there eventually. Give it a good cut and polish too, and there shouldnt be too much difference in the paint. Here's what mine looked like, the paint on the doors is all the original 1987 stuff too!
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Location:
Coffs Harbour, NSW
Registered:
November 2004
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Sun, 07 August 2005 01:28
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damn, im doin that! 
only thing is there isn't the chrome strip anymore...
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Location:
Bulleen, Melbourne
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June 2002
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Sun, 07 August 2005 01:33
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Yeah I thought of that, I had planned to replace the chrome strips in the bumpers with red ones, or just paint them, but in the end I couldn't be arsed  It came out pretty good none the less.
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Location:
Coffs Harbour, NSW
Registered:
November 2004
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Sun, 07 August 2005 01:36
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| tooch wrote on Sun, 07 August 2005 11:33 |
It came out pretty good none the less.
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no shit?! 
looks (looked?) tops 
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Location:
Bulleen, Melbourne
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June 2002
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Sun, 07 August 2005 01:49
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Haha thanks mate, I loved that car, sold it to someone I know so its never too far away! Don't think he looks after it as well as I did tho, think he already wants to get rid of it less than a year later!
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Location:
Coffs Harbour, NSW
Registered:
November 2004
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Sun, 07 August 2005 01:53
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just noticed, you took the twin cam decals off too?
i might do that as well, mine are peeling off and stuff, they look shit 
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Location:
Eskilstuna, Sweden
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May 2002
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Sun, 07 August 2005 03:47
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To clean off the gak under the plastic strips use a citrus cleaner as it will get rid of the stuff without affecting the paint. I use one called De-Solv-It. Which you can get at any Bunnings
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Location:
Bulleen, Melbourne
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June 2002
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Sun, 07 August 2005 08:32
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Those decals came off as a result of all the degreaser+car wash high pressure hose! Didnt mean for it, but they looked shit anyway
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Location:
Potts Point, Sydney
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October 2003
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Sun, 07 August 2005 11:13
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Red, keep the colour original
And it makes it go faster 
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Location:
Sydney, Northern Beaches
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February 2005
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Sun, 07 August 2005 13:46
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Yeah on second thought, door strips should go. Then you're left with those ugly recesses down the side. I reckon smoothing out the panels with bog would be winnar:
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Location:
Coffs Harbour, NSW
Registered:
November 2004
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Mon, 08 August 2005 02:33
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hmmmm...
shit pieman, you've just complicated it more! 
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Location:
Sydney NSW
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July 2004
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Mon, 08 August 2005 02:47
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If you fill the waistline with bog, you make the car look more upright and less sleek. Theres a good reason car designers put them there. It might look ok in a photo, but in real life the door panels will look huge.
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Location:
Coffs Harbour, NSW
Registered:
November 2004
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Re: painting plastic door strips on ae82 seca
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Mon, 08 August 2005 02:58
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yeah, i just compared the two photos, and the second one makes the car look higher, and...basically what cannonball said
plus, id have to get it painted
ill just pull the strips off, after my trials though 
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