Paint My Hood

[TexasTJ]

I going to Paint a Black out on my hood this coming weekend. Anyone have any good Advice to Prep it??? I was thinking of Masking it out, then give it a light sand fallowed by an alcohol wash. After that I was just going to use a foam roller to apply the paint to the hood. This is a nice dint and Paint chip right in the middle of the hood so I'm not really looking for perfection and a Decal is not really an option.

 

[Ray_G]

Pull it, as its only 4 bolts and worth having off the truck for a better painting experience.

I sprayed mine (rattle can) but did as you describe-blue masking tape and such. Good cleaning, light sanding, and you should be good.
The bumper trim rattle can stuff holds up well and doesn't get as dirty as flat black-in my experience.
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Ray

 

[fishEH]

Plasti-Dip.

 

[Derel1cte]

Why not order a pre-cut vinyl? Cheaper, removable, simple. Just make sure to remove the washer jets before you go to apply the vinyl.

 

[TexasTJ]

Having worked in Vinyl it's not cheaper. Plus my hood is not perfect so the painting will cover some places including a pin point dent. This pin point dent cracked cracked and chipped and that would make a place where the vinyl would dry crack and flake off with in three months. I done a lot of wraps in my past had have seen it happen. My clear coat it flaking off too so another reason i think painting is the best option.

 

[AFSOC]

Youtube, "50 Dollar Paint Job", you'll find several videos of people who have used Rustolium applied with rollers. Some give very detailed prep instructions. The more meticulous the prep, the better the flat or matte hood will look.
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PS: I agree with the previous recommendations to remove the hood. A trick to getting it put back on without requiring adjustment is to put masking tape around the hinge flange before loosening the bolts so that you can get it put back in the exact position as it came off.

 

[spikemd]

Plastic-Dip doesn't require a ton of prep and can be easily removed. I attempted a vinyl install and ended up with some wrinkles. I have tinted windows in many cars, but my first vinyl install didn't go as planned. I am looking to remove it and spray plastic-dip soon.

The matte finish on any install looks great, for about a day then it looks like crap as dirt and dust is stuck in all the little nooks and crannies. But its a trail rig so I don't care. Rovers look better dirty.

 

[MLu]

Somebody will bite my head off, but this is a pretty good Plasti-Dip case, that's what I use. When it starts flaking, I'll redo it.

If you still want to paint it... remove the hood, it's a pain to paint something you can barely reach, and the result suffers. Good clean to get rid of all old wax and so on, mask it, a light wetsanding to scuff the surface (if the clear is really flaking then that will probably need a whole bunch of sanding...), clean again, re-check the masking using a good quality tape that you can form around the not-entirely-square flat area of the hood and use a good quality rattle can or two of paint. You'll be staring at it every day, you don't want roller marks on it [EDIT: alright, I wouldn't want roller marks on it, maybe you're more comfortable].

 

[Ray_G]

So actually up and running at a coffee shop vice on my phone, worth reiterating/adding comments. This is what I used on my D1...probably 5 years ago since I did it shortly after purchase of what is now known as coyote:
Rust-Oleum Trim and Bumper paint

This is what it looks like now:

*Great pic...damnit...
This is a better one showing the tone, and how it's held up:

The D3 has vinyl, the D1 is that paint. For me the vinyl was cheaper for the D3 b/c I was in the UAE and labor costs nothing, my parking garage was a thousand degrees, etc-but when the vinyl is done I'll replicate the painting for the D1.

I was utterly unimpressed by plastidip on the hood when I tried it.

 

[AbnMike]

I wouldn't remove the hood just to paint it. The prep you described sounds fine. It's not like it's a show rig or anything.

 

[kcabpilot]

I had to R&R the hood for my engine swap and working alone this is how I did it.

First open the hood then set a big empty cardboard box from Amazon on top of the engine, lower the hood onto it, remove the four hinge bolts after marking perimeter of hinges with a Sharpie. Disconnect washer hose and remove hood. It ain't very heavy. Reinstallation is the reverse. Balance hood on top of the large empty cardboard box from Amazon, tilt and reinstall hinge bolts.

For painting that large of an area that's probably how I'd do it. I'd also take a little bit of filler and blend in the dent. Might as well since you're going to paint anyway.

But if you're just gonna roll it on anyway this is overkill.

 

[lwg]

Why not use that paint you can peel off? I recall a lot of vehicles are "blacking" out there vehicle with it now. Not sure if it's plastic dip or what but it should be all over the Internet.


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