Painting My Side Skirts! - VW GOLF GTI MK5

What's going on lads, today I've got a couple of little bits to do, that includes spraying my side skirts, gloss black, as well as I've got these little inserts which are going to go on the seats. They didn't come with any sticky pads or anything so we're going to have to make shift something with that, maybe we can use glue or something similar. But yeah, I'm going to go ahead and drive to the garage now, get all the cars out, get this in there, give the side skirts a quick wipe down, maybe a little bit of a sand down with some wet sandpaper and then we'll go from there. I know I've already got quite a lot of sandpaper and stuff from the last thing I sprayed which I did show on the channel and I also got some more paint as well, as well as some masking tape and what I'm going to do, basically I'm not going to take the side skirts off the car, I'm actually going to be spraying them on the car which should be ok. I'm just going to get loads of newspaper, loads of tape and make sure that I do it properly. So yeah, ok, so I've gone ahead, I've just got the car inside the garage and the first thing I'm going to do is basically put these little GTI emblem things on the seats, just because it is the easiest thing to do and that looks pretty sick. Now obviously they're not got any sticky pads or anything, they actually are like metal like, they're actually pretty solid. So if I put that in that light, looks spot on, I'm just going to go ahead and get some glue and probably glue this side, glue that side and then just go ahead and put that in and yeah, I think that will be pretty easy. So I've got some glue, one of these will do, this one looks full, so I'll go ahead and use this one. So I'll quickly glue that in and I'll go ahead and get back to you. Ok, so I've just glued this one panel in and it is actually proper solid so yeah, I'm really happy with that, it actually looks really nice, it goes really well with the seat and this bottom piece here, it looks really good. So I'm going to go ahead and quickly put that other one in on the other side and then we're going to go ahead and start cleaning up these side skirts so I can go ahead and start getting them sprayed. I do need to start putting the newspaper and everything on the car as well, so yeah, I'll get that done. But first things first, I'll get that side done. Ok, so I've got some newspaper, I've also got some masking tape, so I'm going to quickly get the quick detailer and get a microfiber cloth and just quickly wipe down these side skirts and then I'll start taping them up around them, right up to the edge of them and then I'm going to get the newspaper and newspaper the whole side of the car and yeah. Ok lads, so I've just finished basically patching all the side up, so all that is visible is just the side skirts and I made sure there's no like cracks or anything inside the newspaper so we definitely, hopefully should not get any over spray. I might put some newspaper on the floor even though this floor is already a bit messy but in case, just in case there's going to be one big black patch on the floor it might be a bit better to put some cloths down or something. So what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to start putting the plastic primer on and then whilst that's drying I'm going to go ahead and go to the other side and start putting the masking tape and newspaper on the other side so yeah I'll come back to you when the plastic primer has dried on this side. Ok lads, so jump a bit, basically I lacquered, sorry not lacquered, I primed the side skirt and I've sprayed the side skirt now so it's looking pretty good. I haven't sprayed the other side yet because I wanted to get that on camera so I've done about five coats now on this side, I think I'll do another one and then I'll start leaving it to dry and then get the lacquer on. So this side is all ready to go, I'm going to go ahead and start spraying this side so I can get a couple of coats on this and then it's just a waiting game, I'm waiting for it to dry. Ok lads, so I've just finished putting the clear lacquer on this side of the car, I've given it about five coats of lacquer now so I'm going to go ahead and start taking off all this newspaper, all the tape, maybe I'll do it in five more minutes so that it's definitely dry and then I'll take it all off and then go ahead and show you what it looks like. The other side I'm still applying the black spray paint so that might be a bit longer but yeah, I'm going to go ahead and wait for this to dry and then quickly take off all this tape. Ok so I've just taken off all the paper and to be honest, I know it's never going to be like the Golf Edition 30s because their panels are smooth and these ones come just a little bit bumpy so considering these have that little effect on them, they've actually come out really really nice and I love how they look so yeah they definitely have a good shine on them and yeah I'm actually pretty pleased with them, I think I'll just keep them like this, I don't plan on changing them in the future but when we're a bit lower this will definitely stand out a bit more but so far I'll run you guys through it, what it looked like, so yeah, this is definitely gloss black but obviously it's not as glossy as the paint would be like an Edition 30 but it's definitely a lot blacker than it was and it does have a little bit of reflection, yeah I mean I'm happy with it anyway and we've still done this today as well which looks like it's dried which looks pretty damn fresh so yeah I'm gonna go ahead and get the lacquer on this side, get the lacquer on this side done and then just take the newspaper off and I'll drive it outside and that's where we'll definitely see the reflection outside better than the inside so yeah I'll get back to you. I've just pulled the car out of the garage now and I can safely say that these look a lot better than what they used to be, so yeah I'll definitely recommend that if you guys have one of these and you're thinking about either changing the side skirts or painting them, gloss black is definitely the way to go especially if it's a black GTI then that's how they look and I can honestly say it looks a hell of a lot better and there's no over spray or anything so great, great success. So I'm gonna go ahead and end the video here, if you guys enjoyed this video make sure to leave a like, leave a comment on what you guys think I should do in the future videos and yeah all my Facebook and Instagram and everything is all in the description so if you guys want to see any more on this little GTI definitely make sure to subscribe down below and yeah I'll see you guys in the next one.