a year and a half or so.

- NCSU

 

Mine started to fade about 8 months after I painted them, I cleared it the second time around

 

Did you just tape around your tailgate handel?

 

Looks nice, I need to do this to my truck.. I'm tired of using back to black!!!

 

No I removed it. You just need to pull off the tail gate cover on the inside of the bed so you can access the back of the handle. Easy stuff.

 

good job i did my bed rails a few months back still need to do my handles and wiper cowl. im in san antonio too!

 

Bed Rails are done. I clear coated these with a satin clear. I am noticing the fade on my cowls and flares. Will have to clear them






I also had my rear bumper line X'd

 

i am in the process of doing all this, and ive tried putting the clear coats on it and everytime i do it makes the old faded look come right back. its like i never painted them when i use the clear on it after.

 

Yea, I had the same thing happen with me. The clear seems to cloud up. I think you need to do a lot lighter coats to prevent it. I am not sure though.

 

I also painted mine a few months ago with no clear, and its held up pretty good.

As for my bed rails, im going to get some Black Wow and give it a try since I have my roll n lock installed and I dont want to go through the mission of removing it. Depending how it comes out I'll paint it or not after...

 

Do you have any shots from the side? I've been wanting to do this because mine are pretty bad but seen someone else do this and it came out real shiny and looked weird as hell. I'm pretty sure he used rustoleum instead of krylon though.

 

I used Krylon on mine in Sept. of 09 and they are slowly getting back to how they were

 

Looks good man... How hard is it to take off the Wiper Cowl. That's something I need to get done on my truck?

 

Super Easy!

Here is the How To Thread

COWL REMOVAL

 

So its been 1 1/2 years later and wanted to provide and update. All the pieces that lay flat against the sun have completely faded and paint has micro cracks. This includes the cowl and bed rails.

The fender flares still look decent but no where near as good when first painted. I'll try to put up some pictures.

I don't think this paint holds up to the Texas sun and heat very well. I wish I would have just replaced the bed rails at this point. I will not be repainting anything. Oh well.