I have a customer that purchased a fleet of used work vans from a rental agency. They were originally orange or yellow and were repainted after the customer purchased them. However, painting the door-jambs were an extra $150 per door, so in an effort to save money they declined. The customer just wants to make the door-jambs white, and he was thinking of painting them with white spray-paint. It doesn't have to be perfect, just has to be white. How should I go about scuffing up the original paint? What process should I go through? Any suggestions?
Painting Door Jambs
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I'm assuming your not taking the doors off. Clean with prep-all really good and scuff with red scotchbright pad everything you can reach. Clean really good again with prep-all. Multiple times if necessary. Hit the hinge area with bulldog adhesion premoter. Get a quart of single stage white paint and use a small detail spray gun.
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Absolutely. I plan on covering the entire vehicle with tarp and doing one door at a time. I am also going to seal off the interior with tarp as well so no paint gets on the interior. How about brand paint? I believe I have a pnuematic spray gun lying around somewhere that I can dig out.
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Ive had good luck with Summit racing brand paint. Very reasonably priced and is pretty decent to work with. For the door jambs id recomend adding a little more reducer than usual. It will let the paint lay a little nicer without a bunch of orange peel and need for wet sanding.
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If you do use extra reducer for more flow make sure you use a good tack coat to prevent runs in the paint.
I'd suggest using Dupli-Color is a spray can. Anytime I hear I think I have a spray gun around here somewhere really means I'm not real use to using one. THO a spray can is simple and Dupli-Color can give you a fantastic end result. It's all in the prep.
I'd suggest using Dupli-Color is a spray can. Anytime I hear I think I have a spray gun around here somewhere really means I'm not real use to using one. THO a spray can is simple and Dupli-Color can give you a fantastic end result. It's all in the prep.