Poll: How to paint wheel well., Black? Body Color? Undercoat? Options

[thomasotten]

I have seen very nicely restored and/or custom cars with their fender wells painted to match the body, and an equal number where the fender wells are painted black. Modern cars seem to have their fender wells lined with black plastic, at least that is how my VW's and Audis are. This is not something that everyone notices, but some may have an opinion.

[realred914]

body color looks nice and is most original. undercoating helps prevetn rust and stone dents.

you can have both, you can paint to body color then over coat with a clear undercoating to help prevent stone damage. or you can undercoat first with a paintable undercoat, then top that off wiht body color.


be sure to pay cloase attention to any seams, clean them well, epoxt paint them, then follow up with a seam sealer then top coat the seam sealer.


that is my opintion for th e best look .


however I do have a beater 914 all modifed also, and that I have no probelm with plain black under coat.

main thing for long life is to enfisize seam sealing and stone damage protection.


if you drive a lot on gravel roads, or have tires that pick up gravel easily, drive on salted roads or do other driving that risks stone or corrosion damage, your then better off with more undercoat.

seam sealer is required unless you have a museum car that never gets moist.