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Old Feb 25, 2009 | 06:34 AM
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i am just now getting around to the clean up and repaint of the underside, my question is what does everone do with the fiberglass on the underside , do you paint it like the rest after it is clean or leave it alone?
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i put a coat of por-15 on the whole shell, provides a nice hard cover and easy to wipe clean.
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I painted mine
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If you have the underpanels cleaned up it is worth the time and effort to paint them.
Make sure you add a little undercoating just to the top to the wheelwells to prevent rocks from cracking the topside paint.

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Hi 2TS,
While the fender wells had some undercoating and some semi-flat blackout, the underbody was left natural. So it depends what look your after as to what you do because the underbody could be semi-flat black too.
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i put a coat of por-15 on the whole shell, provides a nice hard cover and easy to wipe clean.
Uh1... What is Por -15? Thanks
Old Oct 5, 2019 | 06:36 PM
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POR-15 is a rust preventative coating. By the way, you’re responding to a ten year old thread.

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