jamiejim

The rocker panel on the DS of my car is perfect, but the PS is chipped, and also appears to be a slightly lighter color than the rest of the car. No one notices but me, so maybe I'm crazy about the color difference, but the chips are definitely there.

I bought a spray can of factory matched paint and clear coat from paintscratch.com. I had them add the "flex" to it to that is supposed to make it more rubbery.

I plan to paint the PS rocker panel next week when I'm on vacation. I'm assuming that since the rocker panel is so low on the car and is a different texture than the smooth finish, that if I mask off the line right on the top edge of the rocker and do a relatively decent job, that it can't possibly look any worse than it does now.

Has anyone done anything like this using just a spray can, and do you have any suggestions/comments?

Peckster

It'll look fine down here. It's not rocket science.

Matt Romanowski

Jim,

Mask off everything you don't want painted. Then, use a maroon scotch brite pad to scuff the paint. Then wipe it down with a grease/wax remover and paint away. Remember, the many light coats are better than one heavy one.

Matt

Riff

Silver is tough to get to match since it seems to get darker with each successive coat. Follow the advice above and use several light coats until it matches, then go with clear over it.

HTH,

Paul C 944

I have spray painted mine ,black was easy to match, i cleaned it well and light steel wool,mask it and your all set!! With the texture its impossibe to tell on mine! It looks much better!

jamiejim

I don't think matching my silver (Sapphire) color will be a problem, since I have bought touch up for the car from paintscratch.com before, and it matched perfectly. Thanks for all the info, I'll go for it next week.

AndyK

Old thread resurection!!

I was thinking of doing this on my car--the nubbly rocker panels are chipped and kinda faded looking. Would I be getting overspray everwhere if I do it outside? Inside the garage? I'd hate to have great looking rockers, and white paint dots all over the rest of the car!

I also assume that if the rockers are lightly scuffed, I woudln't need a primer, right?

xsboost90

spray paint sucks as$

Porsche-O-Phile

Only if mis-applied. A lot of the new stuff you can get is actually quite good.

Anyone remember mideastmafia's car? I believe that was entirely painted with spray cans. It's all in the prep and how well it's sanded down afterwards.

AndyK

Pretty hard to sand down the rough surface of the rocker panels...rignt?

Ken D

I used Paintscratch color-matched Graphite Metallic aerosol when I painted the 968 mirrors, door handles, and turbo rear valance on my old '85.5. The match was spot-on and they turned out perfect. I also used Paintscratch color-matched Nile Green aerosol to paint the splitters on my 951.
As usual, good prep, followed by wet & dry color sanding, polishing/compounding, etc. will give you excellent results.

ehall

If you want to do it right, remove them to paint them. It takes ten minutes. Make sure they are TOTALLY clean first or the paint will come off/not stick well. Use Krylon Fusion, for plastic. It is great stuff.

Ken D

You wouldn't need to sand those as they are a rough finish.

Ehall, I assume Andy is not referring to the turbo/S2 aero pieces, but the actual rocker panels (sheetmetal) with the rubberized coating.

AndyK

Remove them??

Ken, you got it.

Also, luckily, Alpine White is the same as VW #3300 paint...which I think is available at Pep Boys!

xsboost90

you can make spray paint match perfect, but you cant get it to last very long in weather and road conditions. If you want it to last, do it right.