Who's painted their truck?
03-27-2010, 01:33 AM
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Who's painted their truck?
Who here has painted their truck? Did you stay with the stock color? Did you do any of the prep work? What did it run you? Just thought it'd be interesting to ask.
03-27-2010, 05:27 AM
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I painted mine 4-5 years ago with acrylic enamel. It was white and I went back to white to avoid doing door jams ect. I think I chose a VERY slightly different mustang white though. I was going to community college for my associates and I only had one class during my last semester, so I took auto body to paint my keyed truck. I probably wouldn't have attempted it without expert advice and provided tools, most importantly a full climate controled Devilbiss downdraft booth with breather suits and everything. I wasn't really going for the do-it-yourself look, if I was gonna do, it was gonna look factory.
I had key marks down to the metal on every surface and Fu*k You written across the hood (not me, the previous owner, probably directed at the bank that repoed it from him). I also had several dents.
It cost me about $400 for all supplies, I wanna say I used PPG paint (do they even make paint?), but I can't remember, it could have just as well been Dupont. I only worked on it a couple times a week, but I'd say I spent 100 hours on the body work. It wasn't bad, it's easy brain work, but a lot of elbow grease. At the end of each class I would spray some cheap primer lightly on the bare metal and use it as my daily driver.
A couple tips:
I was advised by the instructor who was a manager at a local body shop that taking the bed rail covers off my 98 150 would probably break all of the clips and they were very expensive. Subsequently, 5 years later the plastic has shrunk a little and left an edge about 1/32" away from where the plastic is now. But nobody notices it but me and I am just careful when washing there.
Take off your wheels, any fender flares or molding, badges, mirrors, grille, windshield wipers, headlights, tail lights, antenna, tail gate handle and top plastic, maybe bedrails if you can afford new ones if you break them.
You will do yourself a favor to take off anything you can and paint it seperately like tailgate and hood, get everything prepped, laid out, and have a full plan of attack.
Mine still looks great. I have a few 1/16" rust spot coming through on the rear fenders from mostly living in Indiana. But they will be perfectly covered with some factory fender flares that I din't come on my XL. I have a few 1/16" chips on the hood and top of the front quarter panels from passing the salt truck.
Other than that she still blings when I wash her. I try to get some picture up.
I had key marks down to the metal on every surface and Fu*k You written across the hood (not me, the previous owner, probably directed at the bank that repoed it from him). I also had several dents.
It cost me about $400 for all supplies, I wanna say I used PPG paint (do they even make paint?), but I can't remember, it could have just as well been Dupont. I only worked on it a couple times a week, but I'd say I spent 100 hours on the body work. It wasn't bad, it's easy brain work, but a lot of elbow grease. At the end of each class I would spray some cheap primer lightly on the bare metal and use it as my daily driver.
A couple tips:
I was advised by the instructor who was a manager at a local body shop that taking the bed rail covers off my 98 150 would probably break all of the clips and they were very expensive. Subsequently, 5 years later the plastic has shrunk a little and left an edge about 1/32" away from where the plastic is now. But nobody notices it but me and I am just careful when washing there.
Take off your wheels, any fender flares or molding, badges, mirrors, grille, windshield wipers, headlights, tail lights, antenna, tail gate handle and top plastic, maybe bedrails if you can afford new ones if you break them.
You will do yourself a favor to take off anything you can and paint it seperately like tailgate and hood, get everything prepped, laid out, and have a full plan of attack.
Mine still looks great. I have a few 1/16" rust spot coming through on the rear fenders from mostly living in Indiana. But they will be perfectly covered with some factory fender flares that I din't come on my XL. I have a few 1/16" chips on the hood and top of the front quarter panels from passing the salt truck.
Other than that she still blings when I wash her. I try to get some picture up.
03-27-2010, 08:55 AM
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^ yes PPG is a paint company, but from what ive heard its definately not the highest quality, but its also not tractor paint either lol
and im hoping to get mine done soon but its just not in the finances for a while, i plan to go from the curent dark blue which is already not the original paint (Mark III painted it when it was new i think) to a gloss black.
my uncle owns a body shop and i think im going to be moving there to work for him this summer so maybe it will get done then
and im hoping to get mine done soon but its just not in the finances for a while, i plan to go from the curent dark blue which is already not the original paint (Mark III painted it when it was new i think) to a gloss black.
my uncle owns a body shop and i think im going to be moving there to work for him this summer so maybe it will get done then
03-27-2010, 09:32 AM
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I haven't yet but hopefully will be soon. I've got a ton of body work and custom stuff to do. I will more then likely be posting a thread on it somewhere.
As far as custom paint goes I will not be doing custom paint on my truck. I may change to a brighter white but that will be it. I love doing custom paints just never thought that look for the truck. Here's my last custom paint I've done.
This is hard to see unless the sunlight hits it right. Ghost C5 emblem.
As far as custom paint goes I will not be doing custom paint on my truck. I may change to a brighter white but that will be it. I love doing custom paints just never thought that look for the truck. Here's my last custom paint I've done.
This is hard to see unless the sunlight hits it right. Ghost C5 emblem.
