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| Oct 3, 2012 10:30AM | malsal | |
| Oct 3, 2012 08:17AM | Spitz | |
| Oct 3, 2012 08:15AM | Bens96JDM | |
| Oct 3, 2012 07:12AM | Nicholasupton | Edited: Oct 3, 2012 07:13AM |
| Oct 3, 2012 06:30AM | Bens96JDM | |
| Oct 3, 2012 05:23AM | malsal | |
| Oct 3, 2012 04:52AM | Bens96JDM | |
| Oct 3, 2012 04:29AM | CooperTune | |
| Oct 2, 2012 07:45PM | Minimike1 | |
| Oct 2, 2012 06:32PM | Cup Cake | |
| Oct 2, 2012 06:08PM | Bens96JDM |
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Don't paint the outside edge of the gutter especially white on a green car it will look goofy and top heavy imo. If you need to paint the outside gutter edge cheaply just get a rattle can and do it, it is not a big area that will show up badly.
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x13 outside of gutter body colour.
( the drip edge is actually the added piece visable in Nicks pics.....which a 96 wouldn't have 
A saw a pic somewhere that had the outside of the gutter painted roof colour....looked odd.
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| Originally Posted by Nicholasupton If the car is 100% painted then the color is broken at the top edge of the gutter, if something custom( carbon roof) then adjustments to the line have to be made
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If the car is 100% painted then the color is broken at the top edge of the gutter, if something custom( carbon roof) then adjustments to the line have to be made
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I may have to do the outside of the rail white too, because the paint prep for the green respray was not that thorough. I'll have to take a better look.
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Yes a black trim in two pieces which is NLA. The crap they sell to replace it is junk and shrinks in the heat and all they do is hold water and rust out the gutters, you are better off cleaning the gutters up to look presntable and leaving the trim off completely.
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| Originally Posted by CooperTune This is a question that comes up now and then. If you look at enough cars you will see every combination. Proper would be the roof and the gutter inside same color and from the the upper edge on down the outside body color. The later shells like yours have the big corner cut outs to drain water. The gutteres on those cars are not well finished due to the covers used on the gutters. I have my body man clean the edges up and paint so I don't have to deal with the covers. Steve (CTR) |
So this is why my drip rail edge is not exactly super smooth? It should have some edging over it?
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This is a question that comes up now and then. If you look at enough cars you will see every combination. Proper would be the roof and the gutter inside same color and from the the upper edge on down the outside body color. The later shells like yours have the big corner cut outs to drain water. The gutteres on those cars are not well finished due to the covers used on the gutters. I have my body man clean the edges up and paint so I don't have to deal with the covers.
Steve (CTR)
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in case that's a bit short, I believe that the outside of the drip rail is the body color, and you can tape it up to the top edge. BTW, check the seam sealer in the drip rail and if it needs some touch up, (add more seam sealer before painting).
Take some pix.
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Body color.
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I want to paint my roof white on my 96 SPI. Should the drip rail remain body color or be painted white? Should I tape off underneath the drip rail? What did the factory do?
