you know that piece of metal around the hatch window? mine is pretty rusted and was wondering whats the best way to get rid of it. sand it down and use silver paint?

 

That is what I would do, it is no diffrent than any other piece of metal on the car...I thought it was supposed to be black though? Maybe mine is just because i have a black car...

 

i have a black car too, maybe it is black metal im not sure. thought it would be silver.

 

Mine is starting to rust in that spot too. My car is red and that metal trim is black. Someone told me to put wax on it to stop it from getting worse, but I don't think that really works. I would sand it and paint it.

 

mine's black

 

i second sanding it and painting it. i have a bright blue car and mine is black as well.


-earl-

 

When I repainted my car I painted that along with the strips on the t tops. I sanded them down and shot them with a satin black. They came out great. Oh yeah and it was rattle can.

 

alright thanks guys, guess i'll just sand it down and spray it with some black paint.

 

my car is red and the metal piece is black. just sand the rust away and repaint it.

 

Just make sure you use Satin, gloss will look too shiny and tacky. IMO

 

Ive looked into this and you can buy that piece new but its not cheap. I was looking into replacing my whole hatch(mine was smashed and I have the wrong year on there) went to do so and last minute was told that piece wasnt included but would be for another $100 or so more. I held off for now...

 

i think i'll just spray paint it. gonna snow tomorrow so im gonna hold off until a niece couple days of weather.

 

I just did mine plus the door handles a couple of weeks ago, looks 10x better now All I did was take a scotch bright pad to the metal trim and beedblasted the handles.

 

i sanded mine down and painted it with satin black, looked great for 4 years....i need to do it again as it's starting to rust in a few spots. very minor but i'm too picky.


has anyone painted it to match the car?

i've been contemplating the idea to paint mine to match my car...

 

i'll look for some satin black paint with some kind of rust inhibitor, dont know if they make it though.

 

Liberal amounts of Naval Jelly, just dont get it on the roof!

A little sand paper to roughen up the surface

A little primer if you want

Black trim paint available at any auto parts store

 

naval jelly, good *** man.

just lightly sand the piece and attend to any rust with an inhibitor. then paint. no need to go extreme and acid dip the piece... :lala:

 

You guys think it would look ok painted gloss black if the rest of the car was the same color? I am getting my car painted this summer and am trying to decide if i should do it satin or gloss.

 

Hey, it worked for me
I just dont see why somebody would paint over a spot where rust is/was without totally getting rid of it. It WILL come back up through the paint if it's anything like most rust I've seen

Ahhh, whatever works

 

i sanded mine down and repainted it black, jus tbe sure to mask it all off.

 

lighten up.........just pulling your chain, that's true that you'll definately take care of it that way. my point was that if you do it right with certain inhibitor products you shouldn't have to go that far.

doesn't matter as they both work well.

 

with the ttops are u talking about the part that is always faded where the window meets the ttop? if so then can u be more specific on how to get rid of fading

 

yeah just sand it down and paint,but just make sure you mask it off good or else you'll get overspray all over your car like me when i did it

 

Would it look like *** if you painted it with a brush? If not, what kind of paint would you use? I'm not a very artistic person, so I fear I'd have a lot of overspray if I attacked it with a spray can. It seems like it would be tricky to mask too since it's such a narrow little piece that goes around such a large area of curved glass

 

If you are an artist, it would not look bad. I don't know how to paint well with a brush because I always leave brush strokes. An artist can use a brush and have it look like an airbrush.

If are using a spray can, just mask the areas that you don't want overspray on.

 

when i re-did mine, i did what everyone else did...sanded it with some emery cloth and then painted it with flat black spray paint.

when my hatch got smashed i priced those trim pieces from GM...it comes in 2 pieces, one for each side, and you wont believe how much it is new from GM....try $450 APIECE...for a total of $900 plus another $478 for the glass from GM.

 

I was quoted $450 or so for new glass w/ rear defrost and new trim. The glass was $350 or so and I was going to do it but I didnt realize the trim was seperate and another $100 so I held off for now. Later on tho if I cant find quality used glass then Ill bite the bullet and get new glass, new trim and Ill have it retinted and that will be one less thing to fix on the car.