A shop quoted $800 to paint just the hood and roof of this 98 Ranger. That's just not feasible. Am more more interested in DIY solution. I don't have a problem to sand and paint. Is there a spray can manufacturer who makes color matched paints? If not what are your ideas on how you can go about to get this painted. I am prepping the truck for sale shortly.
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Everyone knows I’m a rustoleum nut.
What would the truck be worth with a cheap paint job? I’m assuming the 800 would throw you down instead of bringing you up
Sanding it isn’t all that hard. sanding it to get a mirror finish can take a lot of time. No joke, I’ve painted a couple of my trucks with rustoleum with a foam roller out of the can. After red primer, you thin down the rustoleum about 1/3 mineral spirits, and you roll it on on a 65° day when it’s not sunny. That lets it spread out without running. Then two coats of full strength, all four hours apart.
For that white truck, you can try just doing white on the hood and on the roof, but it’s probably going to look different. But it will look 1000% better than it does now.
The other thing you might do is do the hood and the roof in a complementary color. If the interior is red, maybe use red, use blue for blue, you get the idea.
Then put some pinstripes on the truck (dirt cheap pinstripes). The pinstripe pulls your eye, instead of the eye going to defects in the paint.
Almost no matter how carefully you do the rustoleum you will end up with a little bit of orange peel, but I get nothing but compliments
You can see how the pin stripe graphics pull your eye off the flat surface of the paint
you’re also talking about $30 versus $800, and I know you’ll get the 30 bucks back easy
With the rustoleum, you can do a final sand with a 100 grit and the paint will fill. Wet sanding you’ve got to go down to 2500 with block sanding. Fortunately, white is very forgiving.
And a thought on the complementary color. Restoleum has about 12 standard colors. If you want a lighter version of one of the colors like the red or the blue, just buy a can of white and blend it yourself.
my two cents, I hope it helps
