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Was able to get a little bit of the preparation for drivers side fender repair. this will be my first attempt at trying to match the patina paint for the two small repair areas. It looks like on the fender at one time they might of had some bumps and bruises from the presence of gray primer on the upper portion of the fender. Since this is a truck I will be selling soon I want to make it not only presentable but rust free. The fender had the usual front fender cup rusted out due to poor design and usually leaking battery acid. The rear bottom is another area that rust out do to poor design that traps leaves, mud, etc and allows rust to develop. The rockers are fine on this truck looks like someone must have replaced them at some point, noticed it from getting under truck and could see where the spot weld line was.

So in doing this I wanted to only fix the two rust spots and make it look as though it had never had an issue. So the process that I am attempting is by removing the fender, buffing with a buffer and compound to get to the real color under the oxidation. Then take the fender to my local NAPA automotive paint store where I buy my supplies. Have it match with a digital gun, then mix up a quart of single stage paint. They then take the single stage and pour out 4oz. to make an 2K aerosol can that has a badder inside with hardner. You then take an special activator button on the bottom to activate the bladder so the harder mixes with the paint. You now have ready to spray matched paint in a spray can that is good for up to 24 hours. If this does not work then I still have the matched paint in a quart to respray with.

Pict 1 - Buffer and compound ready to see the real color
Pict 2 - Shows the upper area buffed compared to low oxidized area
Pict 3 - Qt. of single stage digital matched paint and a 2K spray can ready to go
Pict 4 - Rust are bottom of fender apron
Pict 5 - Rust area drivers side fender cup