Anyone able to provide some body work information?
Here is my problem:
(not the best pic, i can take more if needed).


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This is what I plan on using for my truck doors. I'm having the same problem as you are and I saw a pic of someone else's truck with truckbed liner on the rocker panels and it looked good.

http://www.duplicolor.com/products/truckbed.html

 

right, but you would need to get the rust off of the door right?
I see you can paint match also. its something to consider. I was just going to paint that lower portion all black.

 

I would grind it all down and primer the hell out of it

Then if you wanted to go the bedliner way, DO NOT GET DUPLICOLOR TRUCK BED LINER, it sucks, flakes and peels off. I would suggest something like herculiner which is on the bottom half of my truck now

 

You're deffinelty going to want to sand all the rust off first, and if there's any holes you'll want to fiberglass them (bondo's fine) sand it all back down and primer it first. Remember if the primer looks like **** whatever you put on top of it is going to look like ****. So if you don't like the way it looks primered, sand if back down and redo it before you paint.

 

+1. Make sure you get all the rust off or you'll be dealing with the same problem you have now in a couple months. Except this time you will have to be scraping bedliner off instead of just sanding paint.

 

Buy a rust neutralizer, it sprays on then it kills all the rust, then you just scrape away the excess rust and prime it.

 

okay, thanks.
saw some stuff that sprayed on at home depot or lowes. I want to treat it from the inside out also.

I know of a body shop that can match the paint and put it in a spray can also. Its not a show truck so it just has to look good, not perfect.

Edit:
what about this stuff??
http://www.idealtruevalue.com/servlet/the-164874/Detail

 

Thats the stuff!

 

You don't need a body shop to match the paint. Under your hood (a few inches back from the grille) there's a sticker, that will have your paint code on it. All you have to do is go to an an autoparts store and match the paint code up. Even if they don't have it (and they probably will) they can order it. It's alot cheaper than having a body shop mix a batch of paint for you.

For example my primary paint code is PR4 or poppy red.