jn_h

I just recently had my truck repaired from an accident they body shop replaced one of my flares now the rest of them look faded and S****y. Is there something I can do to restore them or would I be better off painting them? If you have painted yours can you post pics so I can see how it looks. Also How hard is it to get them off of the truck?

BTW my truck is a black Fx4.

06F150CFCT

Here is my before and after. I took them off the truck and hung them up and painted them with Krylon black plastic paint and then a couple coats of clear. It was kind of a bi**h getting them off because of the pins. I just said screw it and destroyed the pins and got new ones from Advance Auto. They look MUCH better than when I originally got the truck.

The before picture is about a month after I got my truck and the after picture was about a month ago. Ive had them painted for about 9 months and they still look brand new.

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After:

jn_h

Cool man thanks! I took my front passenger side off tonight before it got dark, you're right that thing was a pain in the **** to get off. Im gonna just plasti-dip it for now to see how I like it though.

06F150CFCT

haha..yeah i just ended up taking pliars to the plastic pins after trying to preserve them on the 4th one...not worth it. Good luck! Itll look much much better.

Saromero

If it's not to late. Just take a heat gun to them and they will become dark black again.
You can check it out on YouTube.

techrep

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I use a product called Black restore...made by Bondo...found it at Pep Boys...works great , makes them look new for a few months....your's look great 06...nice job...I just use Black restore on my cowl...made it look allot better, I will pull it next time and paint it.

screw04

If your into the rugged look the diy bedliner stuff looks good on there and last forever. Should look real goof on your black truck

jn_h

I ended up using dupli-color bed armor they make it in a aerosol can which looks a lot better than the roll on. I'll post up pics tomorrow, I'm very happy with how they turned out.

Mikemeek

Did the bed armor last on the flares? I've used it on plastic items before with varied results.