mattyc

Do honda paint the back boxes black? when I bought my 2000 model the backboxes were painted black however half the paint was coming off and they was covered in tar. I went out and bought some black high temp paint. It took me a good couple of hours and some elbow grease to remove all the tar and paint. Once i had removed it all I thought they look better unpainted what are your thoughts do you think I should paint them black again?

E4RTH WORM JIM

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S2000Si

I think it somehow makes the tips look smaller so from me

AquilaEagle

They do paint them black, but it flakes off, loooks better without it

S2k Eire

Looks better without it imo, I used a brillo pad on mine before I fitted the HKS.

baldy2007

it look es better

mattyc

Cheers people I'll leave them as they are then. Best buy some more autosol then. Does anyone else get loads of tar stuck to them? Shame there are no arch liners on the rear

chris_g

I need to do this too, mine are all flaking and look shit, except they are so dirty at the moment you can't tell!

mattyc

Get your marigolds on! I used a green scotch pad with plenty of autosol and on the bits with tar I used tar remover and a stiff detailing brush found it better with the bumper off too. Tried without and ended up with plenty of cuts trying to get to the top of the backbox

s2konroids

Looks better without but now you will get all the soot, tar, muck etc sticking onto them and they wil look more dirty more often than black ones.