Facelifting 451. Need advice

[Kerja]

Re Your new painted panels .... are they now smooth? I've just looked at mine (Emily had nicked mine when you'd first posted) and the sill & front lower valance both have a grained finish ... the rear valance is a twin centre exit and is smooth.

All of them are smooth finish and are white plastic (not painted over)

[EmilysDad]

All of them are smooth finish and are white plastic (not painted over)

Thanks. I'm surprised they are not painted :-?

[2minits]

Again depends on age and stock levels....and colour! Some are painted all over, finished and given a quick coat of lacquer on the back, some are moulded in colour and lacquered, some special edition colours are painted and lacquered on the front face and edges of the panels so if you look at the back you can see the original colour of the panel!

[10:45PM]

Yeah, imagine during vehicle production, ...they can make panel sets up of any production colour on the fly pretty instantly..because they have press's set up for them obviously.... They can bang em out like there's no tomorrow and spray them up accordingly on the painted ones


To keep all that going after car production ends as spares would (and does) get ridiculous.... So they start to downsize pretty much straight away and reduce stock holding until in the end all they'll supply is primed 'blanks'

You can't keep press's set up for old panel shapes forever, so they will do them in small runs which dwindle as time goes on.