GTV6 plastic

[Pottree@domain.elided]

In a message dated 6/17/2002 12:28:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
owner-alfa-digest@domain.elided writes:


>      My tea-tray has faded from black to gray, as has much of the other 
> plastic on
> the exterior of my GTV6. I've used a couple products such as Turtle Wax 
> Black-
> Chrome but I'm wondering if the plastic could be sucessfully painted, for a 
> more
> permanent fix?

I could be wrong, but I believe the tea tray and some of the other plastic 
material of the trim (ground FX, air dam, etc.) was never actually black, but 
a steely and slightly metallic looking charcoal gray color.  This color was 
also used for a time (including 1984) on the center part of the OEM wheels, 
and on my example, on the part of the paintwork below the side  bumper strip 
and above the rocker panels, between the wheel wells.  I have heard from a 
(former) GTV6 owner that there was once upon a time a Mazada color that 
matched this exactly and was available more easily, in small spray cans.

More pressing, to me, is the fact that some of the plastic parts seem to 
actually shrink over time, and that the clips and square plastic connectors 
break off.

Charlie
LA, CA, USA
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