Painting emblem advice

[Quashish]

my plan is to have the H still chrome but instead of the black around it have it color matched to the car. So now that the black is gone my question is...

In order to not see the sanding marks through the polished front of the plastic, to what grit should I sand the back side which is what will be painted in order not to see those marks but for the paint to still grip? Its sanded with 400 right now.

[deevergote]

Wow, I've never seen anyone get that part off before! I always wanted to do that!
I'd say a very fine grit would be best. Perhaps some plastic polishing compound. TypeG will be able to advise you much better than I could, as he's done damn near all you can do to the various polishable surfaces in the CB!

I'm replying more so that I can subscribe to the thread and see the final outcome!

[Quashish]

So you think the paint would stick if I polished the back side of the plastic? Just use some adhesion promoter? Oh and I just used 220 I think

[crazymikey]

Give it a scuff with like some 800 or 1000 grit. Use some adhesion promoter, primer, paint, clear. The surface doesn't need to be rough, just needs a light scuff to atleast give something for the paint to grip without running off.

Like Deev said, that's really cool I've never seen anyone do that before. I like.

[Quashish]

Ok can't use primer though I'm painting the back side of it so whatever I lay down will show through the front.
Get some paint tomorrow. Gotta get that paint code though. Anyone know the rosewood off hand? I know its on the door but just to double check.

[F22 BEASTING]

oh waooo thats nice i agree with deev,and mike

[crazymikey]

You'll need primer or it won't stick. Paint the outside. I know it won't give you the cool see through effect you're going for, but it won't work.

You can try with just paint, but go in really, really light coats. I still don't think it'll adhere very well. I would try some adhesion promoter though if you don't use primer. It's clear, so it may just work.

[drew12000]

You dont need primer. Ive done this twice to emblems. Sanded the inside color off with green scotch brite. Cleaned. Then used Honda red touch up paint from o'reilys. The paint fills in the scratches, and still has a gloss look from the outside.

[stence2028]

You can do what i did.

http://youtu.be/dV0vqWSi68k

[dysfunk]

This is in one of the grille DIYs!

*edit: can't find it.. it may have been lost when the site crashed. still looking though.

[P5ylance]

I did that with my grille emblems a few months back to fix the paint that got ripped off when I removed them did you use acetone (less time consuming, more effective for small regions) to remove the paint or did you sand it off? How badly are the scuff marks from the outside? If anything, leave it scuffed so the paint can stick, you could do 1000 for a lil bit if you really must. But if you paint it black or some darker color, it won't matter as you won't see it. Don't need primer or anything, its protected by the clear portion and its gonna be sealed when you affix it to something so the paints not gonna get bothered. So just lay it on its front, get a spraypaint can and blast away. Don't overthink it too much!

[Quashish]

Closest color match I found was desert sand mica that replaces a toyota color

[kosheen1]

Shoulda left it transparent and put a led/bulb behind it connected to your parking light

[KanYarK]

Matches close enough, I like it!

[Quashish]

Yah I was thinking about doing that for my type R grille behind the accord emblem. But I would have to probly hook up a switch to it so I could flip it off for cops or whatever. too much work. But I guess the sable has that light across the whole front.