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Originally Posted by Readie
I was gonna buy these chrome struts so thought I would take off the old ones just to check sizing.
Then had a root around in shed and saw I had some ‘chrome paint’ so started to rub them down for prep.
Then, as the black paint was coming off revealing ‘clean’ metal under I decided just to keep on going with my drill attached sander.
Then with drill attached polish disc got this result.
All in all took about an hour and a half and cost pretty much nothing!!
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Thanks for the inspiration
Using some lying-around alloy wheel silver paint I also now have lovely silvery boot and bonnet struts too.
Bonnet struts are the originals, boot struts are SGS jobs from a few years ago which went rusty pretty quickly, I'm afraid to say. Plenty of oomph left in both though.
Really glad I did this as the rusty struts were negating any effort put into cleaning the engine bay in particular.