how did you guys do yours? with or without the effects on it? just wondering if i have to paint effects seperately.

 

some people paint with them on and some paint with them off.. its recommended to take as much off and paint it seperate as possible.

 

i would say leave on , unless you are trying for a show car . most of us just want a good looking daily/weekend driver . [ lots of extra work ] hope paint turns out good .

 

i dont know much but i would go seprate, seems more proffesional

 

Id say it really depends on if you want to take them off, if you think theres rust under them then take em off. I'd recommend painting them separate though, just makes it cleaner, and they're not very hard to remove.

 

i agree with most, take them off. better job in the long run and like stated above its not that hard. i took mine of because to get a good quality job you want to take off everthing possible just as tourville said.

 

I took them off so I could paint under them. Put them back on and painted the whole car.

 

they,re already off the whole car is primer gray .what i am afraid of is messing up and scratching up new paint job.there was rust under the 1/4 ones,and bottom of doors .but i fixed all that.

 

So currently if you put the ground effects on to paint, you'll have primer under them? Nah. Paint the car and ground effects separately and use some care in reattaching them.

JamesC

 

Certain low buck primers retain moisture. You can guess what happens next. Rust and lots of it. DO IT RIGHT. Take as much apart as possible then paint everything separately and then just take your time and be careful during the re assembly.

 

paint them off the car.. trust me you will be much happier, especially if you paint the skirts a different color, i'm in the process of pulling mine off so i can repaint them and the bottom of the car to get a cleaner paint line.. just be carefull putting them on

 

it is to your benefit to remove them,mirrors,turn signals,taillights,grille,spoiler,bumper covers or atleast loosen them up so paint can go around.if you take a few extra minutes to do this before you drop the car off your job will come out better.

 

Paint them seperate for the best look. Plus the car will have some rust issues from rain or wintertime where the ground effects attach to the car that you can't see until they are off and you can deal with that and get another 15 years of rust free from the area under the ground effects. Also take off your spoilers and if you have the blisters / louvers take those off too. Just be careful taking the effects off. When the body shop took mine off the brackets were so rusted they had to make me new ones (finding used ones is next to impossible) when it was time to re-attach.