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Front cap painting
after a certain amount of years our buses need a little love on the front cap, rear cap and side radius areas that get so much of the heat and sun bake. My last MH, a tiffin Allegra bus had this same issue even though it was 7 years newer than my Prevost.
I Chose once again to trust my local paint shop to take good care of my rig- and I thought I would post a couple photos for anyone interested.
The guys at Wayside Body shop grabbed these for me not long after they had started prep work. I know, I should have gotten a couple before they started. Although I do have a couple of spots down the radius’ as well we decided to focus this trip on the front cap. A nice bonus wil be the new LED marker lights when it’s finished.
For those of you consodering this type type of thing – be aware that (at least in delaware and Maryland) your entire bus must be able to fit inside the paint booth. This is a feat for nearly any shop. Wayside does a lot of MH’s and OTR Trucks – thus the reason they can accommodate.
Lastly – the paint job has been promised to be of prevost quality / there will be no feeling the stripes through the clear coat ( and should be felt for the time spec’ for wet sanding and buffing!)
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Progress update.
Apparently i had some small cracks around the marker lights. This allowed a little moisture to be in each light .
more photos of the progress.
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You mentioned “new market lights LED”. I presume those are the high ones. Were you able to find plug and play replacements for the high marker lights?
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The lights that came out were LED right? When I was resealing a couple things up top, I had replaced a couple around the top of my coach because they were cracked around the screw holes. The new ones were LED just like the old ones.
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It is the upper marker lights. They were not led. The new replacements are led.
the replacement part number was suggested on the forum – part number and all – I’ll try to dig up the part numbers or the link to the posting that listed it.the cap is now prime red, starts in for paint tomorrow.
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That may have been the point Prevost had just switched to LED lights. I just suggested that b/c before I had started my sealing project I called Prevost and ordered more marker lights. I asked about LED ones and the gal said the ones I already have are LED. She was right.
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wow Patrick, what a difference a year makes.
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going into paint tomorrow
primer finished. Nice to see all the flake gone and little hairline cracks fixed.
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Mike, looking sharp…. -
thanks dorel!
The clear “flaking” was driving me nuts even though you couldn’t see it from the ground.
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Patrick, you were right. The original marker lights were led. 1 had failed and couple others were not far behind.
For the small cost (under $20 each) I highly recommend replacing them if they have “aged out” -
in case anyone is interested in what the led marker lights look like at 17 years old…here are my originals ( date stamped 2000)
this was the worst one. I broke it apart to show the led cluster.
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finished the front cap. Turned out nice
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Really looks nice..
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Cap looks great Mike. I recognize those lights too!
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Very Nice !
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