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Old May 24, 2010 | 09:49 AM
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i was wondering if any body knew how many gallons of paint it would take to paint a jeep?
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Old May 25, 2010 | 03:39 PM
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Old May 25, 2010 | 04:07 PM
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Less than one gallon did mine.
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Old May 25, 2010 | 11:56 PM
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do you have any pics of your paint job
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Old May 26, 2010 | 01:58 AM
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It depends on the amount of paint you'll gonna apply each coating...
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Old May 26, 2010 | 05:13 AM
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I would always got 1 1/4 gal. of paint, for a car. Nothing worse than finding out, you do not have enough. Some times I would have some left over. Lighter metallics need more to cover. (Especially Silver) If your painting over the same dark green (shown in your pics.), and don't have a lot of repaired primer spots. You could get away with using just 1 gal. Spray a coat of clear, over it.
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Old May 26, 2010 | 06:12 AM
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im actually going with something call flat twilight black metallic do you think 1 gallon would be enough?
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Old May 28, 2010 | 01:40 AM
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do you think 1 1/2 gallons would be ok?
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do you think 1 1/2 gallons would be ok?
should be more than enough youll have plenty left over for touch ups
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Originally Posted by fishtaconc
should be more than enough youll have plenty left over for touch ups
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Old May 28, 2010 | 12:27 PM
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ok thanks for the input i am going to be painting pretty soon
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Originally Posted by 94xj5spd
ok thanks for the input i am going to be painting pretty soon
So, just wondering how things went, since I plan to be painting soon. How many gallons did you use and how many coats? How did it turn out? I'm thinking of going mil-spec desert tan. My Jeep is black right now.
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