- Dec 4, 2011
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Sometime this summer I plan on getting the rust on my Trailblazer taken care of. Things that need done:
All 4 doors fixed (driver side rear is really bad)
Both rear wheel wells fixed (driver side rear is the worst of the two)
Liftgate replaced (too much rust to fix for reasonable cost at this point)
Some touchups here and there where paint got marred and a tiny bit of surface rust has appeared.
Surprisingly my hood is pretty good.
Anyway, this is going to easily run me over $2k to do. A friend gave me the idea of instead of having the doors fixed and the cost of painting and blending them, I should just have the lower parts of the doors from the molding down and the wheel wells along the body lines "painted" with a good quality truck bed liner. He recommended I do the front and rear bumper covers as well so it flows together. This would probably save quite a bit in cost as there would not be as much prep work, paint blending, clearcoating, etc, just tape it and spray the liner. I'd still have the liftgate painted the right color (unless I could somehow find a rust-free one in the right color already) and plan on getting a new crossbar for the front grille (mine is cracked) and having it color matched.
Combine this with the lift I want to get later this year when I get new tires (thinking Treadwrights, either the Sentinels or the Wardens, not sure), and it would give it a pretty rugged look. I don't do any offroading currently but who knows I might start doing some perhaps.
What do you guys think? Good idea? Bad? I thought about trying to do a photochop of it to see how it looks so if I remember tomorrow I'll grab a side or 2/3 pic to play with.
I remember seeing on the old site a pic of someone's red TB that he had done something similar to. That's where the idea came from.
All 4 doors fixed (driver side rear is really bad)
Both rear wheel wells fixed (driver side rear is the worst of the two)
Liftgate replaced (too much rust to fix for reasonable cost at this point)
Some touchups here and there where paint got marred and a tiny bit of surface rust has appeared.
Surprisingly my hood is pretty good.
Anyway, this is going to easily run me over $2k to do. A friend gave me the idea of instead of having the doors fixed and the cost of painting and blending them, I should just have the lower parts of the doors from the molding down and the wheel wells along the body lines "painted" with a good quality truck bed liner. He recommended I do the front and rear bumper covers as well so it flows together. This would probably save quite a bit in cost as there would not be as much prep work, paint blending, clearcoating, etc, just tape it and spray the liner. I'd still have the liftgate painted the right color (unless I could somehow find a rust-free one in the right color already) and plan on getting a new crossbar for the front grille (mine is cracked) and having it color matched.
Combine this with the lift I want to get later this year when I get new tires (thinking Treadwrights, either the Sentinels or the Wardens, not sure), and it would give it a pretty rugged look. I don't do any offroading currently but who knows I might start doing some perhaps.
What do you guys think? Good idea? Bad? I thought about trying to do a photochop of it to see how it looks so if I remember tomorrow I'll grab a side or 2/3 pic to play with.
I remember seeing on the old site a pic of someone's red TB that he had done something similar to. That's where the idea came from.