Painted bumpers & fender flares black on my R50

[Towncivilian]

I painted my bumper covers, fender flares, and rear mudflaps using Krylon Fusion satin black spray paint a few weeks ago. I finally washed my PF and took some pictures.















(excuse the Ranger in the picture :P)

[Chris.m]

Looks good,

I just noticed the LE wheels on your SE, was that an option?

[Towncivilian]

I had no idea I had LE wheels. I don't think it was an option.

[miamiheat3332]

Its an 01, so yeah LE's came stock with those wheels, while SE;s got the other ugly ones, it most likely was an option to get the LE wheels on the SE, as 99% of manufactures offer that option. I.E you can get a stock merc c280, but yet get the AMG wheels on it.

In 2002, those were the SE wheels, and the LE got 17;s. Another minor change in those wheels was how his have the 5 fake rivets around the rim colored nissan symbol, 02 and up the rivets were removed and the nissan symbol is chrome.

[Towncivilian]

I dunno, maybe the stock wheel options changed by the 2001.5 revision (which is what I have). Here are my factory options according to FAST:



FAST also says that I have an SE model.

I no longer have a spoiler or the Bose system though, as it turns out.

[GRNMACHINE]

Town,

Looks good, how is it holding up? Spray the side step bars black also. One of the other easy and cheap changes I made was to paint to the red trim around the rear lights black ( I used VHT epoxy paint in satin ).

[Chris.m]

I dunno, maybe the stock wheel options changed by the 2001.5 revision (which is what I have). Here are my factory options according to FAST:



FAST also says that I have an SE model.

I no longer have a spoiler or the Bose system though, as it turns out.

Where did you download FASTÉ, I remember Pwnin posting a link to that but I kind of missed the boat on that one and soon the link was dead.

[Towncivilian]

The paint seems to be holding up fine. I do need to paint my front mudflaps, but how would the running boards look completely black?

I downloaded FAST off a Russian torrent tracker with a very narrow registration window. It's too large for me to upload anywhere, and even if I created my own torrent it's probably illegal to distribute anyway...

[shelby500krz]

You should think about possibly painting the lower half of the door panels, basically from the trim down. It makes the black flow all the way around the car.

[Towncivilian]

I've considered it after viewing pictures of your Pathfinder, but decided against it. Maybe the running boards or rocker panels, but I wouldn't go so far as to paint half the doors.

[shelby500krz]

Okay, just a suggestion.

[Towncivilian]

This is why spray paint sucks:



There's a hand print left after a front brake job (at least that's when I noticed it). I guess either my friend or I had some brake cleaner or something on our hands which ate some paint.

Also, there's a few light spots where gasoline dripped onto the driver's rear fender flare after filling up, but that's probably to be expected since gasoline basically contains paint thinner.

[Camelfilter]

That's a drag.

Any chance you can do a re-paint without taking them off? Also, would clear coat have helped in this situation?

-I've been thinking about plasti-dipping mine similar to yours, not sure I want to jump rite to permanent. I really like how my plasti-dipped wheels turned out, so the fender flaires etc should look allrite.

[Towncivilian]

I probably could tape things off to re-touch the handprint and a few other spots, yeah. Clear coat might have helped, but my friend used the same paint I did on his front bumper on his Ranger and tried Krylon clear-coat and it looked horrible for some reason, so I decided to forgo the clear coat.