Carrameow is painting his Mercedes 300D one piece at a time...
 

I pulled my doors from the car, took them apart, took all the wires, glass and regulators out and stripped them and did them individually. I'm a beginner. I just didnt have the skill and technique to paint a door jamb otherwise. I can just hear some professional out there laughing because he knows the technique to do them in 1 hour. It took a lot of hours for me. I got them painted and to my horror i discovered I scratched 2 of the 4 by resting them on sawhorses and moving them. Then I knocked over a third because its tight in my garage so I had to start all over. Here they are after repriming them. Th eonly trick I feel good about is switching over to plastic storage containers with ( ugggg mulch) in them to weigh them down. It makes ahandling the doors easier as you paint, you just rotate them 360 degrees as you paint instaed of tripping over the jungle in my garage.


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Here's my hood, stored uhhh in my living room. My fenders and trunk and front and rear fascia are in my duaghter's bedroom.
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I don't think I've ever seen a door painted purple before.

Me either. I like that color blue though.

is he painting it blue?... im hoping to paint my car myself... or just pay someone to paint her mocca... i thought carrameow was going for signal rot because he asked about it

Who picked out the interior house door color? Nifty color scheme. That blue hood fits right in;).

i dont understand the use of mulch to weigh the doors down.

tom w

Mulch was used in the plastic containers
 

to add stability to them when they supported the doors. It was the only thing i could find in a hurry, we had 400 lbs on the driveway

Purple mercedes
 

Want me to do that to the 300D also?

Are you painting it the same color blue as the hood? If so, I really like that color.

Just be careful. I'm not sure what kind of paint you are using but the stuff with isocynates (sp?) usually found in Urethane paints is nasty and can outgas as its curing. Translation, not good to have in your house.

Oh, please don't. Looks good in the house but not on the car (IMO). :)

Yes please, absolutely. It would be a bold statement. I'm sure HGTV would love to feature your car on their tv show, too. :P

Latest progress
 

I repainted my doors 30 minutes ago. Nice rainy day, no odor travel, very humid so the neighbors had the ac on and windows closes and I could relax.
Stopping to get a bite to eat and take a nap before the graveyard shift. Clearcoat doors and wait until 3 am so I can drive my Hoodless, Trunkless, Doorless Car from its stashing place a 1/2 mile away at a Condo parking Lot under a Car Blanket. THat is making me as nervous as H@@@@ Got a police scanner with me
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I wanted to try to do a good job so I stripped and did the jambs front back and bottom. (Remember I totally took the doors apart)
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I got smarter this time with the hose--I ran 3 hoses ( not shown) to different locations, so I could just quik disconnect and connect as I moved around, crawling around on me knees and even belly slithering here and there to get good angles on the doors.
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Wait a minute? California, huh? You never saw a Purple Door..
 

Wait a minute? California, huh? You never saw a Purple Door..

carrameow , what color are you using? factory color i presume?