Theres a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge thread on moparts using rustoleum and brightside paint to paint your vehicle for $50 bucks. The thread has lots of people posting progress and finished pics of their projects. I started mine about jan. Ive been practicing on my hood. Ive gone through a lot to get to these results

Hood shot
2nd hood shot


I used rustoleum for the hood. it has 8 coats and used 600g 800g and 1000g per 2 coats. lots of work if you just started but once you get the process down, it should be pretty easy.

 

I won't lie that s**t looks clean.

 

Looks great! How well does the paint hold up?

 

Yeah I saw this "$50 paint job" thread on Honda Tech too. I think it's amazing.

 

that is awesome. but how will it hold up...

 

I don't know how it would hold up as far as looks, but I mean you would be coating your car with rust inhibitor.

 

I found pictures of two Civic on Hondatech. Pictures taken a year after the $50 paint job...

 

How did you get it smooth? Just sanding it? We were gonna try it on the last truck I painted, but didn't have the time to do as much sanding as we figured it might take, so we just sprayed it, but I want to roll my car.

 

Yeah, I think a lot of wet sanding is what it takes.

 

yep a real good wet sand is the key. incase you didnt know, when you wet sand, you have to wetsand to get rid of all the shiny-ness from the surface.