Yea you can use the 80 or 100 to start. Just make sure that everytime you go to a finer paper that it removes the scratches from the heavier paper. Youll see what Im talking about.

 

Yea I hear ya. I can't stand all this talk and not being able to go home and do it.

Ws6ls, on a side note did you remove the reflectors in your headlights yourself or have someone else do it?

 

I hear ya on that bro. I didnt remove the reflectors, I just pulled the headlights apart and smoked them and put the headlights back together.

 

I got ya. I want to get rid of that nasty orange. lol I like the way yours looks and there is another truck on here 8Mc that looks awesome. I was just curious. I've heard that it takes a lot of patience which I am limited with. lol That will be on the list of things to do after I get my mirrors painted.

 

Doing mine right now, just checking to make sure I didn't miss anything. I will post up pics either tonight or tomorrow. Wish me luck!

 

Ok so i didn't wait until the weekend to do it. I have so much to do right now, as I'm sure we all do . . . but those black mirror caps were driving me insane. So here are the pics of what I did with it and some after shots. Hope this helps someone down the road.

Let me know what you think

Here is my process in a nutshell so you don't have to read everything.

sand
wash
2 coats adhesion promoter
1 coat primer
3 light coats of summit white
2 clear coats

Ok, well the first thing I had to do was get the caps off the mirrors. This is a lot easier than everyone makes it out to be. If they are out in the sun they come right off because they are held on by two sided tape. There are 4 tabs on the back but as long as you pry them off gently they shouldn't break. Here is a pic of the mirror without the tabs. You can see the slots where they go.



Then when I had the caps off I sanded them down. I used 4 different sizes of sandpaper and this is what order. . . .

1) 100 grit
2) 220 grit
3) 400 grit
4) 800 grit

Here is a pic of them sanded down and ready to be washed up



Then i washed them with dish soap and water and then dried them off





This is what I chose to work with but I'm sure there is a lot of products out there that would work just as well.



first the adhesion promoter (the cans are there so I could spray the edges more easily.



Then spray on the primer



Duplicolor summit white/olympic white is what it says on the can when you buy it at the store



Then the clear coat

 

Here are some after pics.

Thanks to Ws6ls1, Derek, and everybody else for their help & input.











The dog felt like she needed to be included since she slept on the garage floor the whole time I was doing this.

 

Looks great man. Like I said its not hard, just takes a little time.

 

Looks good man, Glad I could help. Now you will want to paint everything thats plastic haha.

 

Already pulled the tailgate handle and bezel off. lol Next is getting rid of the reflectors in the headlights.