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Old 07-04-2006, 02:46 PM   #1
SouthernJeepn06
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1997 FSJ Cherokee 
 
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Lexington, South Carolina
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Finally painting my fenders, grill, headlight bezels, and door handles

lol Its taken me a year of actually saying it but im finally painting all the trim on the jeep. After i got in the wreck a few weeks ago, so it's finally time to paint everything. If you don't have factory painted fenders, you have the black plastic ones like i do. Mine are practically white or chalky looking and back to black was just making it worse so i got all the supplies needed to paint it all.
You'll need Duplicolor Black Trim Paint (found at Advance or Autozone), Duplicolor wipes (they help get all the grease and grime off the parts being painted), newspaper and painters tape.

Since my front right bumper end got ripped off in the wreck and the grill was totally crushes, i picked up used ones from CMC u pull it. I took the grill, both bumper ends, the headlight bezels and washed them then hung them up in my garage and sprayed them. I put about three coats on them. The end result looks great. Very clean and I'd say they look better than factory

Next, I masked off all the fenders and the trim running along side the Jeep. Then used old newspaper to mask off for overspray. I didnt paint the rear bumper because im going to take it off later and sand it all down or beadblast it then paint it. I painted the right side last night and just got done putting the first coat on the left side.

I've been taking pictures this whole time to post them to show yall how it turns out. So far my jeep looks totally different. The door handles are probably the worst thing to paint because of all the curves on them make them very hard to mask off. Im about to go outside and put another coat on but when I get on later tonight I'll try to post the pics on my MySpace because im not quit sure how to post them on here. If yall could explain how, that would be great.

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1997 Jeep Cherokee Sport- 4.0l 5-speed 207,xxx miles
2wd Red , Wrecked right side :(, in process of black rims

1988 Jeep YJ- 4.2 carter carb, ax-15 swap, 33 procomp ats, 4" rancho, 2" bl. red, hard top, bikini top, xenon flares, limo tinted top, cd player, diamond plate rockers (sold in april) no back seat, olympic front bumper

damn i miss my yj but i love my cherokee
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