Chrome paint is it legal

[GaseJo]

As above

I have found some mirror chrome paint which i want to paint my car with and add a tinted lacquer probably blue. But i have been told that it may be ilegal due to the fact of glare. Is this true?

Cheers Garith.

[d-king]

hmmm , good question , i looked into it a few years back an found that it was , also  ive been pulled by the 5-0 many a years ago for a stainless cover on my spare wheel on a vitara , the whole thing was polished , mite pay you to check with an mot station or even ring the minestry of rip offs / transport lol

[pete sparrow]

Apparently it is illegal.We tried on a car last year and the finish was pretty poor tbh.Doubt its water based so its illegal for any shop to spray it because of new legilation.

[Grizzly]

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Its very legal to spary it as long as you don\'t use over a set amount a year (just like any paint as long as it don\'t contain Lead or Mercury).

As for using it on a road car, I\'m told 60% reflective is the legal limit but its very hard to Inforce becouse the Chrome paint applyed properly is between 70-80% reflective then if you use Dye over that it drops some more, if you just do areas you won\'t have a Problem its only if the Whole car is done.

I warn you Chrome paint is for Pro\'s, its very hard to use and you can\'t play with it like any other Base. I scraped at least three jobs before i got the hang of it, it Goes realy Cloudy if you don\'t do it right.

[yogibear]

Thought id add to this, its very hard stuff to spray. I asked the body shop that is spraying mine about it and they told me they couldent do it. There mini won the Best in Britain  2006 Donny Show so they know what they are doing. Also they said although its a chrome effect, getting it to look %100 like chrome is almost impossible, and there is usually cloudy bits.

[rx7veilside]

it may not be illegal but it would be a crime to paint a car in chrome paint

[yogibear]

Years ago I saw an Austin Healy 3000 that was completly chromed. It was done the traditional way though and it looked mint.

Untill one side got run down a lime stone wall.

[Grizzly]

The idea is not to Chrome the car (Quite right that would look tacky) you use it to make a Candy REALY!! deep looks Anodised.

Yes it is very hard to use but people don\'t like to use it becouse its Expencive and easy to mess up (reworks etc)

[FTORich]

There was an FTO painted in this paint doing the rounds last year, up close it didn\'t look that good considering how expensive the paint is.

[sparkgap]

What about Delorans? They were unpainted stainless steel!

[gsb876]

I believe Chrome paint is indeed illegal unless on a totally show car ie never gets driven on the road, i  think i have a few pics somewhere of chrome paintwork. hold on a sec ...................................... :god

The RX7 is not chrome but a very highly polished silver ? Someoen will correct me if wrong :2Confused

Also the Skyline is black believe it or not !!!!!!!

[GaseJo]

Hi all,

Thanks for all the rsponses about chrome paint. Sounds like a no go then, Even though the paint was not that expensive £75 litre getting it right would be very dificult and if someone managed to get it right it would be illegal. Back to the drawing board. Any ideas on original colours?

Cheers Garith.

[Initial-D]

It would look awsome but the legal side would mean that if you did pull it off it\'d be a trailer job only.

Gurj, those pics are awsome!! Any more links or info on the Supra? Since I\'m taking mine to bits for seam welding I can change the whole car colour if I like and a chrome/black would be mental! Although I\'ll proably settle for black again the thought of something dofferent (maybe even a deep purple) would help show off the body work a bit more.

[MikeLMR]

if it were illegal  how do the tankers with the high polish stainless tanks get away with it ?

[gsb876]

if it were illegal  how do the tankers with the high polish stainless tanks get away with it ?

The tanker is chrome but the actual cab is not, i think that makes it ok Mike ?

Unsure but deffo remembering reading somewhere that chrome paint is ok for show cars but as a road car is a deffo no no :2Confused