Well...4 months...this thing's a money pit.

Money pit in a good way. De-chroming the truck and adding a couple of touches.
-Sparks parts grille and bulge
-Sparks parts painted fender flares
-EBay rear steel bumper ends (painted with rattle cans from Automotive touch up)
-OEM front covers also painted with rattle can)

I may note that the rattle can garage painted bumper caps matched very very well on both metal and the plastic bumpers.
eBay sells some rear bumpers caps that are steel....perfect to paint match.

 

Fender flares in quicksand seem to really be a pain to match from what I’m reading.

 

Paint will be different between metal and plastic/fiberglass.

 

Wonderful job on those bumper caps!

 

Looking good

 

Do you have a link to the steel bumper caps from eBay? Thanks, truck looks good

 

https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/362002285014

 

The bumper ends were straight, all holes lined up. The fitment was great. Little prep work then painted it.

 

Looking great!

 

Awesome thanks!

 

Looks great. Did you paint over the chrome front ends and also how many cans to paint both front and rear ? Thanks

 

Looks good nice job

 

Awesome truck!

 

truck looks great.

 

lookin good! I must say you have good taste, although I'm a black fender flare guy.

 

I bought OEM paintable front bumper caps. It took:
-1 can of adhesion promoter
-2 cans of primer
-3 cans of paint
-3 cans of 2k primer

This was for all 4 bumper caps.

 

Did u wet sand it after

 

Yessir

Primed with 2 full coats—sanded with 600 grit
Painted 3 coats
Cleared 3 coats
Wet sanded with 1500 grit
Buff’d it with griots compound afterwards.

 

Same to you brother

 

Thank you very much.Now to do mine that way

 

https://www.automotivetouchup.com/index.htm
Here’s where I bought the supplies

 

Sweet.I checked them out yesterday when i saw your thread here.

 

The truth. You can paint the fender and the flare at the same time with the same paint and still see a difference.

 

Sparks did a clean job on the painting the fender flares. However, in different lighting.....those things are definitely off.

 

Here’s a few views from different lighting and angles.

 

Would never have guessed anything was painted. Great work!!!

How long did you let the 2K clear set before wet-sanding? Was there orange peel? If so, how bad?

 

I let it set up and cure for 24 hrs before I wet sanded. The orange peel was very minimal. Cure time was a lot earlier....but had a call and had to go into work...Lol so wet sanding took place afterwards.

 

Yeah tell me about it. Its the bottomless hole you just keep throwing money in to. But its a ton of fun. Nice looking truck!

 

Looks sick!