Colour Coding
Difficulty
Credit
Evilution
Cost
£5+
For
Old Style 600cc For2
Old Style 700cc For2
New Style For2
Roadster
Old Style 700cc For2
New Style For2
Roadster
Colour Coding
Take a look at any smart and you will soon notice things that don't quite match.
Take a look at any smart and you will soon notice things that don't quite match.
I Don't Get it, What Is Wrong?
If you have a black tridion on your smart you won't have much of a problem.
Silver tridions however still get accessorised with black plastic parts.
What Parts Are Black?
Fortwo
Front lower splitter on the facelift and cabrio models
Side skirts
Fuel filler cap
Air intake
Exhaust valance
Door handles
Wing mirror bases
Roof spoiler
Mirrors and the grill can also be black despite the silver tridion
New Fortwo (451)
Front lower splitter
Side skirts
Fuel filler cap
Air intake
Rear lower splitter
Door handles
Roof spoiler
Lower half of the wing mirrors
Scuttle panel
Roadster
Light surround
Front grill
Lower side skirts
Wing mirrors
Door handles
Rear centre bumper panel
Rear spoiler
The coupe hinges can be silver even on a black tridion car.
Forfour
Door handles
Wing mirrors
Wing mirror bases
Painting These Parts
It isn't necessary to paint absolutely even bit of black plastic, the main ones will do.
I started colour coding Kat's Fortwo Passion, being a passion it had a silver tridion.
You could pick up a can of spray and do it yourself, chances are it will look rubbish,
the paint will look patchy and will stone chip easily and flake off in weeks.
Your best options are:
Take the parts to a spray shop
Take the car to the spray shop
Buy the parts already sprayed
Kat's Fortwo - Stage One
In this instance I chose to buy the two parts presprayed fromNipper20y on Ebay .
The fuel cap was new and the painting was very good quality, the valance was used and had just been removed from a car, again the painting was good but had slight imperfections
It was perfectly acceptable for a used item and the imperfections had been pointed out.
Filler Flap
How to remove and fit a new filler flap .
Before
After
Exhaust Valance
How to remove and refit a new exhaust valance .
Before
After
As you can see, this quick bit of colour coding has helped a lot.
Stange two will be either the side skirts or the front splitter.
Roadster
Colour coding is a far more popular mod on the Roadster.
If you have a silver tridion Roadster and have before and after pictures of black parts becoming silver I would be grateful if you could send them to me to be published here.
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