Painting Side Skirts [DIY]

Posted by on May 12, 2010 in All Models, DIY | View Comments

Color matching your car’s side skirts to the cars color can make a dramatic difference in your cars appearance, and make it look nice and clean. Luckily, paining side skirts is relatively easy, and is something you can do yourself.

Parts needed to paint side skirts

  • 600/800 grit sand paper
  • adhesion promoter or primer
  • clearcoat (autozone should be fine).
  • Screwdriver
  • 10mm Socket
  • Quality paint.
SAMSUNG DIGIMAX A503

Painting Side Skirts

Try and remove and paint both sides skirts at the same time
  1. Remove the sideskirts. There are two metal screws behind each front wheel in the wheel well. and 3 plastic rivet/screws along the sideskirt. Once the 5 total are removed from each side, the sideskirt is simply slid forward and off.
  2. Wetsand with 600 grit sandpaper and then 800 grit sandpaper until smooth.
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  3. Clean off surface really good with soap and water and let dry
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  4. Spray two light coats on the surface with Adhesive Promotor if the lip is made of ABS plastic or Poly Urathene.. use Primer if the lip is Fiberglass
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  5. Spray light coats of the color paint.. around 4-6 coats should do it but make sure all the surface is painted
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  6. Spray two coats of clear coat
  7. Wait around 24 hours for the paint to dry and cure.
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  • Kyle Lisk

    What kind of paint did you use and where did you get it?

  • Kyle Lisk

    Also, where did you get your supplies from, i have wanted to do this to my civic as well, it looks lame with black skirts.

  • http://www.facebook.com/EricMitz Eric Mitz

    I guess it depends on the color you're looking for. Many common honda colors can be found in the Duplicolor lineup (which can be had at places like autozone). It sounds cheesy, but for something like sideskirts it actually works surprisingly well.

    Check out https://www.duplicolor.com/duplicolor/step1.php for how to find a matching color.

  • Kyle Lisk

    Coool thanks. yea it's sideskirts, they look odd as black and im pretty sure you can do a decent job with the right kind of paint. Thanks!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1644921736 Kyle Lisk

    So i finally got around to doing this. And I must say it looks more professional than my front bumper that came stock painted. LOL. Although it took me a while i really made sure to do it right.

  • EKCIvic

    paint your molding too! that would make your car look much better

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