Sanding And Repainting Faded Window Pillars On My 2010 Civic 

I actually have already fixed the rust spot on my car awhile back but I unfortunately wasn't able to film it then but I could see what I could potentially come up with.

Restoration kits are always gonna be short term and temporary. And sometimes the lenses can fade from the inside so cleaning the outside can do no good in those cases. Sometimes new replacements are just the better option.

Try a heat gun and a plastic scraper tool. Be careful to not have the heat gun too close/too long to the surface because you could melt/damage any plastic pieces/paint on the car.

Yeah I want to experiment with that a bit myself and get it done. I heard it’s color matched underneath

also did you let the paint dry before applying clear coat?

I’ll have to go back and see what I used for sand paper. I don’t remember the grit right off the top of my head and yes the paint was dry to the touch when I applied clear.

I used a primer/paint in one.

True. While that would have been awesome I didn't have any in my possession at the time 😕

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What was your name? I get a lot of messages.

Black rustoleum paint

@@Specmauto thanks! I have a 08 civic si and I didn’t even think of repainting them!

Not sure from the top of my head I’ll have to go out there later on and see.

I recommend doing this if you want to be cheap about not replacing the pillar pieces. You could also take a heat gun to it and slowly peel it all off it is body colored paint underneath the black pillar trims. It’s pretty much like a vinyl sticker

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Looks like they discontinued the red color though, they only have black and blue now.

@@Specmauto cool thanks!

I know. That's why I just sanded what I could and painted over it. To save the time and hassle. I didn't want to deal with old glue from the tape and deal with more stickers.

Good luck!

Hard to do that when I didn’t have a garage at the time 🤷‍♂️

The paint ended up fading again overtime and went back to how it was. I just took the shit off all together. It’s literally just vinyl, electrical tape material and it’s garbage. At least the metal underneath is also factory paint color to match