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Originally Posted by MJG  OK then sorry for making you tread over old ground, looks like I'll just have to buy that shit open faced thing for £60. Would it be OK to paint it with ordinary aerosol paint, or would that render the helmet invalid?
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the material of a hemet is the decider about painting helmets - have a look on here :
http://www.acu.org.uk/uploaded/documents/C%2065-81.pdf
they also confirm that the ACU gold is irrelevent as far as car motorsport goes in that they say on there that the gold can be applied to BS6658-85 type B helmets which are purely bike helmets and not suitable for car motorsport.... so therefore the gold label means nothing to us
If you get the helmet from a reputable supplier its worth asking them about what you can use for painting ......but above all else
never paint over or remove the approval sticker
even on a brand new £500 helmet if the standard sticker is not there or not readable then the helmet cannot be used - the scrutineer has to actually see the label to approve it