Painting Fender Flares

chevy4x4trucks · September 28, 2001

I was thinking about giving my truck more of a clean look on the exterior.

For Starters I removed the Rocker Panels. Next I was thinking about taking off the fender flares and painting them Victory Red to match the truck. How would this look??? I don't have a lot of painting experience and was planning on painting them with spray paint that I got from an auto parts store and then clear coating them. Any help or suggestions???

Eventually I'm going to paint the front bumper caps and lower valance to match.

LarryE · September 28, 2001

spray paint aint gonna fix them, it wouldn't last a week..

You need to:

Scuff them up with steel wool

Primer them with an etching primer with hardener

then use factory paint, either spray from dealership, or buy a pint of it and let the body shop do it.

Then clear it.

chevy4x4trucks · September 28, 2001

Using the spray paint that I bought from an auto parts store wouldn't work?

LarryE · September 28, 2001

work yes match no

MountaineerTom · September 28, 2001

chevy4x4trucks,

Plasti-kote makes a line of spray paint called "Truck & Sport Utility". They have some that is number 1579, Victory Red. I used it to paint the bowtie in my grill. (I also used it to paint the plactic intake cover under the hood.) Before I installed it, I held it up to the paint on the body and it matched perfectly, as far as I was concerned. I wasn't too concerned about it being exact anyway since it's location is not close to any of the red body panels. With the flares, they will right there next to the body panels and might be quite noticable in not painted well.

The 11 oz. cans were about $3-$4 at Advance Auto Parts.

quadcab4x4 · September 28, 2001

Chevy, I ordered a set of "bushwacker" flares, which came black. I just took them to the local dealer and they painted them up to match. If you do that you won't have to mess around with getting it to match, runs, buffing, etc. A real PITA ;)