I finished epoxy priming my body and wheel wells, and have a question about the wheel weels.

What type of seam sealer is used in the center seam of the wheel well? The brushable stuff, or the thicker tube stuff? I already have a bunch of brushable 3m seam sealer, tan in color.

Also, I wanted to make the wheel wells look nice and I am wondering if I should paint them like the body (base/clear) or if I should use another type of coating? Any suggestions? It's going to live in the garage except for nice summer days, so it won't see any rain. Nor will it see any track action. But I do want it to stand up to rocks and stuff.

Thanks.

Any recommendations? I'm ready to continue!

If you're looking for a smooth shiny finish that is durable go with POR 15 paint.

Is Por-15 ok over epoxy primer?

I finished epoxy priming my body and wheel wells, and have a question about the wheel weels.

What type of seam sealer is used in the center seam of the wheel well? The brushable stuff, or the thicker tube stuff? I already have a bunch of brushable 3m seam sealer, tan in color.

Also, I wanted to make the wheel wells look nice and I am wondering if I should paint them like the body (base/clear) or if I should use another type of coating? Any suggestions? It's going to live in the garage except for nice summer days, so it won't see any rain. Nor will it see any track action. But I do want it to stand up to rocks and stuff.

Thanks.

I would go with the brushable seam seal you have already, make sure to have some laquer thinner handy to brush over the seam sealer to smooth it out (Looks better).

You can spray the inner wells with color and clear and leave em that way, it does look cleaner.

I would go with the brushable seam seal you have already, make sure to have some laquer thinner handy to brush over the seam sealer to smooth it out (Looks better).

You can spray the inner wells with color and clear and leave em that way, it does look cleaner.

Yeah I was thinking the same thing for the paint. Would look vey good with color/clear to match body color. I would just have to wash them regularly to keep them clean from road film. Not sure I like the idea of Por-15 in the wheel wells OVER epoxy, doesn't sound like a good combo.

I put the question out there thinking there may be some miracle coating for the wheel wells I didn't know about.

Thanks for the info guys.

I use either 3M fast and firm sealer or the 3M auto mix sealer in the wheel wells depending on what we are doing. To do body color in the rears is kind of a waste to me, they will get rock damage no matter what you do. For a smoother finish we use SEM chip guard in a can and then paint black over it and that works pretty nice. If you want a factory appearance 3M's rocker shutz is a good application.

No it doesn't have to be factory looking. The rest of the car is custom also. I just wanted it to look nice and still be somewhat resistant to rock chips. I wanted to aviod the ugly undercoating. I had considered the spray bed liner, but I didn't like the finish of it either. I'll look into the SEM stuff.

Product Variants
SKU # Color Size MSDS
39803 Clear Aerosol View MSDS

39804 Clear Quart View MSDS

39813 Satin Black Aerosol View MSDS

39814 Satin Black Quart View MSDS

39793 Heavy Texture Chipguard Off White Aerosol View MSDS



http://www.sem.ws/product.php?product_id=143

So your talking about product 39813 black or 39803 clear aresols? Looks like it may just do the trick. This can still be top coated with color/clear?

I'll have to give it a try on a test panel to see what the texture looks like.

Thanks

No it doesn't have to be factory looking. The rest of the car is custom also. I just wanted it to look nice and still be somewhat resistant to rock chips. I wanted to aviod the ugly undercoating. I had considered the spray bed liner, but I didn't like the finish of it either. I'll look into the SEM stuff.

Depending on the color some bed liners such as Ameraguard and Linex can be color matched and they can also be put on smooth. The texture is a dry coat that is just misted on, until that is done the bed liner is slick and shiny.