Painting the hood/doors.

[Baxter]

Okay, I've seen the price of second hand hoods
Mine is not too bad, but it has been painted in the past, although sound it's not the prettiest.
I also have 4 flecktarn doors which don't match the body or hood.
I thought rather than buy a hood and doors I could "launder" what i have by painting them.
I have no experience in this field, so I'm asking the question, Is this a usual thing to happen or is it a really bad idea?
If so, can anyone give me any clues as to the paint? I presume some form of synthetic PVC paint as used on curtain side commercial vehicles?

[chrislb]

Baxter,
painting is one solution.
But what about offering those doors for an exchange against the ones you like to have?
There seems to be many friends of 'flecktarn'.

[Baxter]

I didn't even think of that!

Postage from Germany to UK is a reasonable price.
Postage from the UK to Germany is stupidity!

Would people really swap Olive doors for Flecktarn?

My drivers door is damaged, the zip is broken.

[Housil]

I was with my door at a car saddlery to get the "glass" changed. He could also sew a new zipper in over here.

[Baxter]

I have a trim ship accross the road from my workshop, sadly he cannt fit the door in his sewing machine.
Stripping the fabric from the frame is a lot of work!

At the moment I do not know what to do, some good, used RAL6014 doors are my choice but it the shipping costs that make it expensive.

[Abo68]

Hi Baxter,

You can paint the doors and the hood with a special screenprint-colour.
It's called VINIFLAT by ManoukianArgon.

http://www.groener.de/siebdruck-sublimation/Manoukian-Argon-Standardfarben-Viniflat-VINILFLAT-38-000-Siebdruckfarben-grafisch

regards

Axel