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Painting my hood rack? - 5/18/2008 9:00:54 AM

cameronp29

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I am thinking about re painting my hood rack. It is beginning to peal and just looks bad. Its black right now and I want to go back to black. How would I go about painting this? What kind of paint to use? Also I want to repaint the black pieces behind the back windows. There getting pretty bad also.

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RE: Painting my hood rack? - 5/18/2008 9:50:19 AM

igot10pinitis

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do you mean roof rack?

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RE: Painting my hood rack? - 5/18/2008 10:10:37 AM

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I just painted my roof rack. I did a light sanding then repainted it with textured spray paint that was for metal. If you take it off to paint it like i did you might want to put something over the holes in the roof incase it rains. Also i would bother with the pieces behind the windows. Mine were getting bad so i painted them last fall and they already look like s**t

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RE: Painting my hood rack? - 5/18/2008 10:24:33 AM

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ha yea my roof rack

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RE: Painting my hood rack? - 5/18/2008 10:35:33 AM

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How did you get the back window panel off? I have been wanting to do it to mine, but I can't figure out how to take it off.

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RE: Painting my hood rack? - 5/18/2008 10:49:15 AM

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if you are just wanting to paint it black then you can use krylon fusion black. no need to sand/prime for it just take the rack off and spray. it gets pretty durable if you spray light coats within 15-20min intervals to let each coat dry, do about 3-4 coats.

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RE: Painting my hood rack? - 5/18/2008 10:58:14 AM

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when i take it off then go to put it back on. i wont have a problem with the wholes leaking or anything like that? thats what i been worried about and whats been stopping me from doing this.

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RE: Painting my hood rack? - 5/18/2008 11:25:10 AM

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no unless the rubber gasket between is rotted.

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RE: Painting my hood rack? - 5/18/2008 11:28:49 AM

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if it is. can i replace these?where do i get them from?

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RE: Painting my hood rack? - 5/31/2008 6:15:16 PM

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Use a cutting gel to make your back window panel a shiney black color again. Do not paint it please.

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