Do you paint a galv chassis

I have found a four year old galv chassis for my series 2, because its older its not all bright and shiny, but do i paint it, will it help or am i just wasting my time, and if i do paint it what with as i have heard that some paints react with the galv ??

use a hammerite special metals primer then just hammerite or your personal choice. one of thee advadtages of painting it is a landy with a galvi chassis is more dessierable to theft as its worth alot more. so cover it uup and it looks standad and there none the wiser to your lovely chassis hiding underneath

don't use Hammerite on a chassis as it's far too brittle, it'll just flake off - and it takes weeks to fully harden

if you simply want to hide the fact that you've got a galv chassis blow a couple of thin coats of waxoyl over it

if you want the rear cross member to look standard get some tetrasyl 2K acid etch primer to blow on it - then paint it with whatever you want

wont flake off if you do it properly

109party said:

wont flake off if you do it properly

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hammerite will, throw a small pebble at anything that's been painted with it and see how much of a chip is left - it's far to brittle to be used on a chassis

prehaps its couse i have lots of the old fasioned hammerite well i have a 10 litres of about 10yr old hammerite and thats not running out quick that dont come off anything

109party said:

prehaps its couse i have lots of the old fasioned hammerite will i have a 10 litres of about 10yr old hammerite and thats not running out quick that dont come off anything

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i suppose if you put 10 coats of the stuff on it'll not visably show the chips and flakes for a while, and if it's free it's better than nothing

i have a whole shelf just for pots of hammerite

paint it with under seal wont chip or go britl that wot a did

Wash it with mordent solution, then wallpaper is nice.

Thanks for the advice, especially hiding the galv chassis away from the spud faced low life need to be hung upside down by their balls car thieves, under seal it it must be because I don,t have 10 gallons of hammerite to hand, and my wallpapering wont pass an mot inspection

Make sure you use, etch primer or mordent solution first. Galv does not hold paint without it!