My Screw is BLack/beige. I notice the rear wheel wells have what seems to be beige overspray, or maybe it was intentional.
Anyway i was thinking it woulld look beeter all black in there like the fronts, so i want to brush on some good black paint in there.
Anyone else have that scenario? And what kind of paint do you reckon would stick well etc. Just a little more detail work for Stumpy is all

 

kshears (of Ford Truck World) used "3m body undercoating." He told me that quite a few auto parts stores carry it. Other truck owners have had their wheel wells sprayed the same as a bedliner with Rhino, Line-X, and/or a generic spray.

Here's another product/application idea using "Duplicolor Bedliner:"
http://fordtruckworld.tenmagazines.c....ten-id-368708

I've thought about doing this, but just haven't acted on it yet ... like many other projects.

 

Mine are beige as well and, like you, the undercoating spray is on my list of things to do.

I'm just very nervous about doing it because of overspray up on to my paint... I'll probably get to it one of these days though...

RP

 

RP, Im sure if any did even get on your paint it wouldn't stick with how much wax is on your truck!

 

ya i think it would look better black, huh? I'll try some undercoat maybe.. but brush it on .. i dont want any overspray on Stumpys perdy black exterior

 

I like my wells to look black anyway... I'm down in there after every wash doing some detailing on some stuff. It just makes sense that this would be the easier of the two options....

RP

 

I'll get to doing this one day.

I think the black on the wheel-wells will make the truck a lot cleaner.

 

I sprayed mine black last year. To avoid overspray on the body of my truck, I used tape and packing paper and covered up the body around the wheel well up to the bed of my truck and also covered my tires. It was pretty easy, just time consuming. I think I knocked out both back wheel wells in about 1 1/2 hours. I used a black gloss paint that I picked up from Home Depot.

 

I was going to do it with just spray paint but I was worried if anything flew up in there, it'd just scratch and chip the paint.

How is it holding up for you? and what kind of conditions do you drive in?

 

It's holding up really good. However, I live in San Diego and all my driving is on paved roads. So I'm probably not a good case study.

 

Anyone have any experience with that spray on coating that all the 'mart' stores carry?

I know it's pretty cheap stuff but, considering my driving habits (primarily asphalt), I think it'd hold up fine pending it's half-way durable.

RP

 

Im waiting to hear from those who have used the undercoating too. I wanna see some close-ups of how it looks.

 

I actually did this on my old chevy. With the same Spray can cheapo 'liner' It basically goes on like regular flatt black spray paint. I scuffed up the area real good and sprayed a few coats on it over the coarse of a day. Up here we don't use salt, we use sand on the roads so during the winter our trucks get the hell beat out of them with rocks and dirt. It held up ok, but not as good as say that roll on bed liner or a true undercoating would.

I think the stuff in those cans is just a thicker spray paint.

However, if you mostly just drive on paved roads and don't mind touching it up once a year I think it works perfectly fine. Keep in mind though that I'm not the kind of guy who washes his truck every single sunny day. I use my truck, and that means it gets dirty so I'm not nearly as picky as some of you folks may be.

 

I sprayed my rear wheel wells with Duplicolor Truck Bed Coating from my local wally-mart. I covered the wheel & tire with a small tarp and covered the rest of the fender with plastic drop cloths. Then, i masked off the tight areas with blue painter's tape. I put 3 coats on each wheel well and am very satisfied with the results. Its has been sprayed several times with a pressure washer and still looks great.

The whole project took about 2 hours. Go for it guys. If I can do it, anybody can.



Check out this thread... Make your 04-05 look better

 

One of the bonuses from my paint protection package was an undercoating like the rhino or linex liner that covered all that and got rid of the beige. I did it b/c in Minnesota we get hammered my sand, minature rocks and salt on the roads to prevent ice. Darn this cold weather we get....I'm packing up the Ford and moving south some day. I'll take pics later when it stops raining this week. Also want to show you those swirls they did on my paint RP and see if I'm being an *** or if they just do crappy work.

Thanks,

Duke