Stormtrooper1 Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 True. Chalk that one up with people like my step-brother that spend up to 90 minutes each morning after a shower to get their hair to look like they have messy bed-head.Ha ha ! I love how people can do that... 90 mins to make your hair look like you just got out of bed.Thats like the $100 jeans you can buy that are all ripped and dirty looking. I've tossed jeans that looked to be in better shape then people buy new! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Disarray Posted February 6, 2008 Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 Definately don't cheap out on the paint. I had mine flat black and it looked sweet for about 2 months then it started fading. At least it's easy to fix a scratch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomin850 Posted February 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 6, 2008 Definately don't cheap out on the paint. I had mine flat black and it looked sweet for about 2 months then it started fading. At least it's easy to fix a scratch.Ha ha ha.....I hear ya, and because of that I wasn't able to go flat black. After talking to the painter I went with a cheaper alternative that is going to hold up better to the elements. Should be a gloss black now...only $60 in so far, but still need to find the neon pink Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
94850tx Posted February 7, 2008 Report Share Posted February 7, 2008 I'm not going to read through all of this but I will tell you my experience.I painted a 2002 F150 flat red. I used duponts chroma base with a imoron flat clear. It came out great and was very flat, had the primmer look or look of just a base without clear but tons of durability. We did have a huge issue with greasy fingerprints. You have to keep your hands clean when working on it for sure (of course being red that stuff really showed up). The biggest thing for regular body oil on your hands is just to be mindful when touching the paint. To remove it you can use a good wax and grease remover. We were the 1st guys using the flat clear in an automotive application (it was made for bell hellicopters) and since we were having these issues I contacted dupont and the next show we were at the rep came and took a look. To clean the finger prints and all we ended up using their solvent, wax and grease remover, wipes that had a higher content of water in them. The reason being if you used one with higher solvent content it evaporated too quickly- depositing the stain back onto the paint. By using the water based with more water it held the contaminates on the surface long enough to wipe them away. This worked rather well and for just body oil it helped a lot and solved any issues we had. We still had a problem getting random black marts on the truck. We never figured out if it was road debris or people leaning on the truck or what. Dupont now sells the clear as "hot rod clear" and the truck was in a few of their ads before it got totaled.I think they (or it might be PPG) sell a product called HotRod Black that is a semi flat and primer looking. You can also use PPG DP-90 as it's a good sealer primer but if you ever go to paint you will have to break the surface again because that paint system works off a chemical bond and must have the top coat sprayed within a specific amount of time.If you want more info on any of the dupont products let me know, I've got a very awesome rep at work that handles our body shop.BTW we tried waxing with very little luck but detailer sprays worked great. You would be best served to prep and paint a large test board at the same time you do the car to have something to test products on before you try them on the car.I would stay away from rattle can, the sun eats that stuff up and it looks like crap in a matter of months...if not as soon as you put it on.If you want to go cheap seriously look into the guys that are thinning rustolem down and putting it on with a roller...and no I'm not kidding if you have the time you can do a seriously good looking paint job this way on the cheap.We spent like $600 on materials (and had enough left to do another truck if we wanted, which was the plan). Of course I had access to a themoking downdraft booth which helped a lot as well. Thats the other thing, if you go that route there is no wet sanding blemishes out-whats in it stays as wet sanding makes it shinny.If you want to know more PM me.Nick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Mother poking rust hood that oh yeah! mother monkeyer! Instant win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 8, 2008 Report Share Posted February 8, 2008 Like this. VW pr0n! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomin850 Posted February 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2008 LOL acid wash hood ftw...no, unless it was all natural Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshV70 Posted February 9, 2008 Report Share Posted February 9, 2008 LOL acid wash hood ftw...no, unless it was all naturalIt is a 240 afterall...Hope the paint turns out great man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boomin850 Posted February 9, 2008 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2008 It is a 240 afterall...Hope the paint turns out great man.LOL yea...this thing has maybe 3% rust tho . We'll see how it goes within the next few weeks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbolton Posted February 10, 2008 Report Share Posted February 10, 2008 Someone mentioned earlier the idea of painting the car with bed-liner. I was actually thinking of getting the roof of my black wagon done that way, as the original clear is coming off and it's starting to turn white. I have the roof rails, so it could almost be an "urban commando" kinda look. So does anyone have any experience painting with bed-liner? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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