sseiyah

I have a 2007 F150, its the "work truck version" meaning it has vinyl floor mats, roll down windows etc. It had some paint flaking when I bought it, it was down to the primer in a few spots but now the "down to the primer" has turned to rust so I need to do something fast.

Like I said though, this is a work truck. Appearance is not a big deal but rust holes are a big deal.

I have a plan so far, but looking for input or advice. My current plan is to hand-sand down the rust with a higher grit paper, once the rust is down, spray a layer of primer, let it cure and then spray can some color-matching silver, let it dry and apply clear coat.

jeremyyc

Your plan sounds good to me, it won't be perfect (especially the stuff around the sills) but it'll be better. I repainted my rusty front bumper a couple months ago using Duplicolor spray paint and it worked really well, you can check out the thread if it helps... https://www.f150forum.com/f4/repaint...bumper-267528/

The only catch I see is that unless you are an experienced painter, the areas around the cargo light might come out funny as you'll have to fade the paint into the original paint job, depends on how good you want it to turn out.

techrep

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good plan to do something fast.. i would sand then use a rust inhibitor prior to primer.. this will stop the corrosion process..

ninerhb

I would hit it with a coat of a rust converter prior to priming. Even if you get most of the rust out, a few pits with rust in them will cause it to bubble, open up, and resume rusting.

techrep

iTrader: (1)

though i just said that... humm

ninerhb

Sorry techrep, when you said rust-inhibitor I thought of the primers that have rust inhibitors, vs the products that are strictly a rust converter and have to be primed. Although looking at the rusty metal primers, apparently some of them do carry some amount of the rust converters.