White Taco hood glare?

[Photog]

I don't understand what difference it makes to paint it, or put a sticker on it, or spray bed liner on it. The base paint is ruined either way. Do you think you will be able to remove the sticker or bed liner, and not notice the color difference?

Bed liner makes no sense on Taco or LC hood, it is not a high wear area. It isn't a Series LR.

I bet you can't remove a vinyl sticker without peeling some paint.

If you used a rattlecan, you could buff it off with polishing compound, if you had to remove it, for some reason.

Take it to a body shop and have it painted properly. If you take the hood off the truck, and deliver it to the body shop, it won't cost much. They could even leave a pinstripe around the edge, so it doesn't look like a bone-yard part.

The spray on bra idea sounds good; but there will still be color differences when it is removed.

Just ideas to think about.

 

[Photog]

My Discovery has a pretty flat hood.

http://www.griotsgarage.com/product...eyword=spray+on+bra&sortby=newArrivals&page=1

It does look a bit like bed liner so some people wonder what in the world I was thinking, but to me it just looks rugged.

That makes your LR look really good. It keeps the hood from looking so large. Nicely styled.

 

[Christophe Noel]

The spray on bra idea sounds good; but there will still be color differences when it is removed.

I was worried about that, but in October I peeled it off in about 2 minutes in one big sheet and wouldn't you know....the hood looked perfect. Granted, that was only with 5-6 months in the AZ sun, but I expected worse.

A buddy of mine applied the spray on bra to his light blue BMW M3 for a track day and left it there for almost a year. No discoloration.

It's really great stuff. I even used it to protect my chainstay and downtube on my carbon fiber mountain bike.

 

[richard cabesa]

How flexable is this stuff? Do you think it would hold up on the plastic fender flairs?

 

[Terracoma]

I only noticed a bit of glare from the hood on a snowy November trek last year.

... Then again, if I had some prescription sunglasses, I may not have noticed it at all.

 

[p1michaud]

Hood glare

If you are concerned about color matching or discoloration, one could always buy a can of vehicle specific color but in a dull/matt finish as opposed to the glossy/metallic paint of your color. Does that make sense?
What I’m trying to say is get a nearly identical pain to your vehicle but in a dull finish.

Cheers :beer:,
P

 

[ntsqd]

There is a "flattener" made for paint. Can have it added to most automotive paints when they're blending it.

CalTrans trucks (CA state hiway trucks) have had flat black hoods for years and years. I'm told that the paint used on them is particularly expensive. Most flat paints are porous, this paint is nearly flat but not porous. Rat rod guys use the flattener in some of their paints. Porosity is a problem for them, water permeates the paint & rust forms.

 

[Photog]

I was worried about that, but in October I peeled it off in about 2 minutes in one big sheet and wouldn't you know....the hood looked perfect. Granted, that was only with 5-6 months in the AZ sun, but I expected worse.

A buddy of mine applied the spray on bra to his light blue BMW M3 for a track day and left it there for almost a year. No discoloration.

It's really great stuff. I even used it to protect my chainstay and downtube on my carbon fiber mountain bike.

This says two things. BMW paint does not fade quickly, and the spray on Bra does not discolor the paint. Both good things.

I'm not sure Tacoma paint would be as robust.

The Bra spray would be interesting to use as a removable graphic design material.... Hmmmmm??? Something to try, before using real paint.

 

[Photog]

There is a "flattener" made for paint. Can have it added to most automotive paints when they're blending it.

CalTrans trucks (CA state hiway trucks) have had flat black hoods for years and years. I'm told that the paint used on them is particularly expensive. Most flat paints are porous, this paint is nearly flat but not porous. Rat rod guys use the flattener in some of their paints. Porosity is a problem for them, water permeates the paint & rust forms.

Primer (like seen on old Camaro's) is porous and it definitely does not prevent rust. It was never designed for a protective layer.

Doest the "flattener" additive make the top coat porous also, or does it retain its protective qualities?

 

[Schattenjager]

glare...

I just did a simple vinyl decal to my hood - it was a noticeable improvement.

 

[ntsqd]

About 12 years ago an auto body shop owning friend told me that it's the skin on the paint that makes it both glossy and impermeable. Color sanding paint opens up it's pores, which is why properly done an unmolested final clear coat is shot over anything color sanded.
To get flat or satin and impermeable is the spendy part.

So I guess that the way to go about this would be to spray the flat paint over gloss paint. My friend cautioned on that too, but I forget what the problem was. Might have simply been adhesion w/o scuffing the bottom layer, which would open the pores of the paint up and now we're back where we started......