Paint

[u63af]

My turbo has a bit of surface rust on the sills, I was going to strip off all the old paint, paint it in a zinc primer and then recoat in a red stone chip paint. Do any of you guys know the best place to source cellulose cans of it?
Cheers
Sandy

 

[Fen]

Sorry to say, but surface rust doesn't really happen on the sills of these cars (unless it has had paint blasted off somehow). It will almost certainly be corroding through from the inside. By all means give it a go, but I suspect if you take a wire brush to it it will turn into lace.

 

[pauljmcnulty]

ORIGINAL: Fen Sorry to say, but surface rust doesn't really happen on the sills of these cars (unless it has had paint blasted off somehow). It will almost certainly be corroding through from the inside. By all means give it a go, but I suspect if you take a wire brush to it it will turn into lace.

Agreed - check the inside of the sills first to see how advanced it is.

 

[u63af]

Before I bought the car I went the whole way along the sill and pushed had on it. There do not appear to be any holes in it. It is just at the back part where stones get flicked up by the wheel and the part under the rear part of the wheel arch.

 

[Fen]

Go with your original plan then as it sounds like the paint is blasted off. In terms of the stone chip stuff you should use a product by Wurth as that is what Porsche used (someone else might have the actual product name to hand). It doesn't come in red though, so if your car is red you'll need to finish the job with standard red top-coat.

 

[Diver944]

ORIGINAL: Fen In terms of the stone chip stuff you should use a product by Wurth as that is what Porsche used

Here it is: [link=http://www.porscheclubgbforum.com/tm.asp?m=194604&mpage=1&key=wurth&#194634]http://www.porscheclubgbforum.com/tm.asp?m=194604&mpage=1&key=wurth&#194634[/link]

 

[morris944s2john]

Try your local paint factor- the paint colour is listed as "Indishrot" and they may be able to mix a litre up for you and put it in aerosol cans. If it's the back by the wheel arch you may be lucky on my S2 the sills has rusted through in a couple of small localised areas but the lower wheel arch was just blasted by stones as you say and cleaned up nicely with the wire brush on grinder. BTW, I would not spray cellulose till the weather improves unless you can get access to a heated garage/workshop and at least 20degrees C. Celly does not like cold weather!

 

[u63af]

John, Is "Indishrot" Guards red stone chip paint or just the under coat? Cheers Sandy

 

[morris944s2john]

There is no red stone chip paint that I am aware of. The stone chip coating (you can also get this from your paint supplier ) usually comes in a grey or white colour- areosol or from a Schutz gun cartridge. You then paint the colour coat over that (although I like to give a coat of primer first before the colour coats). Leave each coating to dry for a day to be on the safe side - 1 day for stone chip paint to dry, 1 day for primer, then spray with the guards red (Indishrot).