so my 4runner (88) has a lot of scratches in the paint. I cant afford a REAL paintjob right now, so I was thinking of spraypainting it FLATBLACK, to get through the summer and a few months. IM affraid it wont come out well though. I have heard that flat black looks good, and i liek flat black. Do you have pictures or tech articles on doing this. Anyhelp would be GREAT!!!

 

so basically its going to look primered......

 

If you are going to do that just use black primer. I'd be careful with spraypaint as you will probably get runs and light spots in it. You should look into prepping a vehicle for paint. It's pretty easy. It's basically just taping off or removing anything you don't want painted. I'd do that and then get a quote from a shop to primer your prepped vehicle. It shouldn't be very expensive.

 

Anyone else? I know people have done this, how did it turn out?

 

fi you want it too look like primer i say go for it.. if you dont, then dont.....

 

see, the truck is my DD. So it has to be respectable. I dunno if i'll get that with the flat black paint.

 

Is it respectable with all the scratches in the paint?

maybe you should try and polish the paint and get some of the scratches out.

 

Go for gloss black, flat black is really hard to keep clean. Do a search for the prep work involved when spray painting.

 

gloss black comes out badly so im told. Flatblack doesnt show al the imperfections in the paintjob

 

I don't think it'll look "respectable" with a flat black paint job.

Buff it out a bit and save money to paint it.

That's what I would do anyways.

 

I agree, it will look sweet, but not respectable (whatever that is)

 

I just dont wana pull up and have people say..Look at this POS woods beater thats spraypainted. But if you guys think it wil look good, i'll give it a try

 

i htink it will look like crap... primer absords too much stuff.... and making it gloss is going to make the imperfections worse... i say try to buff it out and leave it alone, if there are no horrid spots of cancer rust howing....

 

Agreed. Buff out the scratches. Even if they won't buff out, I won't be able to see them from 10 ft. away. Primer/flat black ghetto paint job? I'll see that 100 ft away. Just my opinion.. My car is immaculate but my truck has plenty of scratches. ITS A TRUCK. It doubles as a hunting rig and mudpuppy.

Its your truck. You are the one that is going to have to drive it either way.

 

Dude you are trying to paint your truck with spray paint. How good is it going to look? You won't get professional quality from a can. Not to mention that is a lot of spray paint. Just save your money for a cheap paint job.

 

Take it a detail shop and ask them if how much to buff it out, and what percentage of the scratches it will take care of. chances are they will tell you if it worth it-most place like repeat business.

(Getting the finacee's CRV buffed on saturday for $75, sure, i could buy a polisher and try and do it myself, but I'd rather space out, its saturday).

 

Here is Mud_Lovin_Yota's truck... Its flat black, looks alright...

 

I love flat black, Its the ultimate in anti-BLING

Keep in mind that Primer is not the same as Paint, flat or not,
paint is paint and primer is primer.

 

your pictures dont work for me....

 

Yeah they arent showing up for me right now either, i figured its because im on a mac (im at school)... I will take a look at them when i get home today, i dont know why they wouldnt be working... I dont think lycos has a bandwidth limit on the image hosting... I dunno, i will fix em though...