Any recomendations for painting wheel wells? I have an Oxford White 06 F-150 and wondered if anyone has painted the wheelwells, Small stone chips start to rust against the white paint, I quess if it was any other color you would never notice, I'm thinking black under coating or rustoleum. any ideals??
Thanks

 

I painted mine when I first got my truck. I think it looks much better. Clean your wheels wells real good then use flat black paint or the rubber undercoating spray.

 

x2. Dont try to color match-- you will fail. Miserably.

 

The small rust spots are driving me nuts, Thanks for the photo of your truck, it looks nice, I'll try the rubberized undercoating.
Thanks Again

 

The spots you have may not be rust. I have them on my white 2007 and had them on the silver part of my 1996. Couldn't see them on the red part. I thought it was rust to. But after rubbing with a little cleaner/wax they come off. Not sure what it is but may have something to do with road salt. Anyway, I to wonder what to do with the wheel wells. They get real dirty, and with everything open there's alot to clean.

 

X2. I had a lot of those little orange specks on my truck. Claybar and wax took care of them.

 

It was probably rail dust. When my truck was new it had it.

 

I painted mine with rattle can truck bedliner. The flat black paint will just chip off (trust me, that was my first venture), but the bedliner is staying true.

 

I painted mine with rattle can truck bed liner. The flat black paint will just chip off (trust me, that was my first venture), but the bed liner is staying true.

 

X2 on the rattle can bedliner

i primered and painted mine once and it was pretty much all gone in a month

 

I am looking at painting my wheel wells too, when you use the spray can bed liner I am sure that you have to cover your wheels and fenders really well, but do you also cover up the shocks and flap going into the engine compartment or do you spray over all them?

 

You dont need to paint the front wheel wells. They are already black. In the rear I didnt cover anything. I was able to paint everything without getiing it all over the shocks and wheels.

 

yeah i just stuck the can up in the fenderwell and went to town haha

worked pretty good

no overspray really

 

Yeah my wheelwells are all black, I was just hoping to spray them to make them look a little better and figure the spray bedliner would be the way to go.

 

Anybody here went as far as Linex-ing them.