painting the grill got ?'s
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painting the grill got ?'s
Ok i plan on painting my grill this weekend. i want to be kind of a shiny black. problem is im not much of one to know about painting so yall could help me out and tell me what all i need what color paint and type as wel as sand paper. Also how many coats and drying time between coats and how long to dry afterwards
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I use epoxy paint from home depot, it's called appliance paint, and it's real shiny and tough, they got black, white, almond...etc, but you have to clean the plastic real good, they got this stuff called platic prep, i like to wash my plastic with hot soapy water, air dry and then apply the plastic prep and you should be good to go.
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I did it like this:
500 grit sandpaper
800 grit
1000 grit
degreaser
alcohol
Adhesion promoter-15min
filler primer-15min, 2 coats
color-20 min, 3 coats
clear-20/30 min 2 coats
and remember when clearing, do a light coat then heavy. same for your color, but then a medium to finish. And i did it in the hot LA sunshine, so you might give it a lil more drying time
500 grit sandpaper
800 grit
1000 grit
degreaser
alcohol
Adhesion promoter-15min
filler primer-15min, 2 coats
color-20 min, 3 coats
clear-20/30 min 2 coats
and remember when clearing, do a light coat then heavy. same for your color, but then a medium to finish. And i did it in the hot LA sunshine, so you might give it a lil more drying time
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anyone know where to get the oem paints from? ive got a not sommon color and theres like three greens that are all close to the one i have so if yall have any ideas so i can get it exact that would be great
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yea duplicolor will have a list on their site of the match colors they make...they dont make mine. autotrucktoys.com sells the mopar stuff but its like 14 bucks for 5oz
the dealer sells the 5oz for 18 i think
the dealer sells the 5oz for 18 i think
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idk maybe ill just do a simple black but im not sure how that would look on the green. i also had the wild idea why i was at it of doing both the bumpers too and if i did black going a head and doing the rims too but leave the center caps chrome
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Id color match it dude, I had my grill and rear bumper black for a bit just cause I hated the chrome, when I finally got around to painting it grey with duplicolor to match the truck it looked 100Xs better!!
