Hey Dave, good job! But I see you're only showing us the good side, not the bondo'd side! You'll have to scratch it up a bit now, people might think it's a mall runner. Btw, your sig states "no chrome" but I'm pretty sure that front bumper qualifies!
Hey Dave, good job! But I see you're only showing us the good side, not the bondo'd side! You'll have to scratch it up a bit now, people might think it's a mall runner. Btw, your sig states "no chrome" but I'm pretty sure that front bumper qualifies!
D'oh, its not black, its "Black Saphire" the colour is really close to the toyota colour I wanted "Nightshadow Pearl" (The colour is really dark blue, look at the colour again)
Oh, and I hate chrome, its all about the black trim baby, black trim
You gotta keep that paint waxed. The crappy tire paint is the crappiest crap load of crap in a can on the planet.
A couple of months ago I did some minor bodywork on my fenders. I used tremclad auto paint on one and Canadian Tire paint on the other. The tremclad looks perfect without a hint of wax ever put on it. The canadian tire side is faded to grey (was black), chipping on its own and has rust forming underneath it. Both sides were fully prepped with rust-not, and tremclad auto primer. The thing that fazes me the most is that there wasn't any rust underneath the the canadian tire side! It was just surface rust and I managed to sand all of it off.
I love the paint job:laugh I'm a fellow spray can painted truck, i figure hell why spend the cash to paint it nicely when i actually use my truck. As for tremclad being good?? I painted mine tremclad white about 2 months ago and it's fading already and it's white, maybe i got a bad set of cabs, who knows? I painted my chrome/rusty rear bumper with canadian tire rockguard(black), all i did to prep was grind off the rust, use a scotchbrite pad to lightly scuff it then paited and it was dry in an hour, went 4x4ing that night and sprayed it with a 1500psi pressure washer the next day and had no problems, but the rockguard will fade unless painted over top of?? How much were the cans of auto paint and what brand were they?? color match??
9 cans at about 8 bucks a can = 72 bucks just for your color. Not to burst anybody's bubble but you can get a gallon of single stage paint for that. Mind you need a gun and a compressor. Clear is almost impossible to spray outside of a paint booth.
I bet you have a permenant dimple in your finger after spraying that much spray paint.
9 cans, did you only do 1 coat?? I used 13 on my blazer, useing regular tremclad cans to get 2 coats?? maybe i should go over it with the paint you used
9 cans, did you only do 1 coat?? I used 13 on my blazer, useing regular tremclad cans to get 2 coats?? maybe i should go over it with the paint you used
Yeah, I basically did 1 coat, I painted it in sections, and did several thin light coats.
(ie. I'd spray, move to another area, and as soon as the layer was dry enough I'd hit it again)
I am going for the total 'BC ferries' look with the Jeep....
Paint layers are like rings on a tree.... Going back you can see how many times I touched it up before the NSOR show and shine:*******
As for 'weekly' touchups...only when the chips and scratches start to get too rusty......
All I can say is wow...
You sure have come along way from the first time we went up Eagle Ridge with you and your other buddy in the 98ish runner. Congrats, nice job on the paint.
All i can say to anyone who is going to use Tremclad auto is read the instructions! You must re-coat within 2 hours or after 7 days. Otherwise it will crack and spiderweb and you will be very, very un-happy.
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