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Old 10-15-2006, 05:05 PM
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Paint on strakes is chipping

I got my strakes a little less than a year ago from rx8strakes.com. The paint is now starting to chip and I was wondering what I should do. I was thinking about buying some touch up paint and just covering the chips, but didnt know how good that would look. I suppose I could just take the paint all the way off and get them entirely repainted, but I'm not sure where I would find the titanium grey paint to do that. I also considered repainting them a different color that wouldnt identically match my Ti. Grey but didnt know which color would look best. Any suggestions??

Sorry if I rambled a bit but I'm tired, hungry, and waiting for my GF to finish making the dinner.
Old 10-17-2006, 03:31 PM
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I bought the OEM's in '03 and have had no trouble with them. What is the base material under the finish of yours? Are they metal or ?? Will a magnet grab hold?
Old 10-17-2006, 07:08 PM
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I want the OEM metal one.
Old 10-17-2006, 11:56 PM
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They are wood, painted with the exact same ti-grey as my car. The paint quality was great when I first got it, thats why I was surprised to see it chipping.
Old 10-18-2006, 07:24 AM
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Wood? Are you serious? I trust that they were a bargain price. You might try sanding them down and using a good exterior-grade stain like Rhinoguard or Olympic.
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Why would you buy wood strakes???? Just go get the real thing and be done with it. Also painted strakes generally don't look very good anyway.
Old 10-18-2006, 09:19 AM
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lol wood? i thought he was joking.. lol would wood even work? lucky they didnt get sogy...
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Originally Posted by Big_Mike_4488
They are wood, painted with the exact same ti-grey as my car. The paint quality was great when I first got it, thats why I was surprised to see it chipping.
For the record, our strakes are NOT made out of wood. That would be just plain crazy. They're made from plastic.

Big_Mike_4488 - please contact us directly through our site, and we can see if there's something we can do to help you out.
Old 10-20-2006, 05:50 PM
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Haha, now thats funny. Yeah, i meant to say plastic. Kinda feels like wood tho, maybe? Oh well I'm an idiot. Thanks Smed I'll do that.
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