My truck is a trail rig, not a beauty queen!
Excuses, excuses... More than one person has come to regret that attitude around here, and only thousands of dollars and a few years cured them of the results.
I won't bring up names. You know who you are.:rofl:
If you coat the roof in bed-liner, you're stuck with it. Any resale value it may have will be destroyed, as well.
This isn't like a headliner that can be replaced, or a floor that can be covered. It's out there for everyone to see, and that's going to be a problem if you ever decide to sell it. You may save two hundred bucks now, but you'll lose two thousand later.
It might not be so great in the heat, either. Insulation like that needs to be on the inside of a vehicle, not on the outside. You may find that you step in that DII on a hot day to find it far worse than it's ever been.
You've got a lot of options, so far as paint is concerned. Aerosol choices are nearly unlimited. Any common auto parts store offers an array of colors, and if you keep your wits the finishes can be outstanding.
I've done more than a few PC cases with that stuff, and most of them came out looking better than most cars do from the factory. You get a dud can every now and again, but just polish it down and go again.
If you live in a well-developed area, it's also possible to find a paint shop that will fill empty cans with a color that directly matches your vehicle. Many online companies provide the same service, though it will be a match for the original paint code, rather than a match for your faded finish.
If you live anywhere near a smaller paint shop, a lot of money can be saved on a professional spray. So long as you are willing to do all the prep, masking, and priming, things can become
incredibly cheap, and you've still got a color that matches the rest of an older vehicle.
The roof of a Land Rover is not complicated shape, nor does it have to be perfect after preparations. The biggest pain in the ass would be removing the alpine windows, but if you are very careful with your masking, you don't need to worry about it.
A few hours of work spread over a couple of days will get you a masked and primed roof that will turn out pretty decent. It won't be perfect, but it will be far better than bed-liner.
Any shop that's worth a damn will match what they can see. They may start with the original code, but they can adjust it from there.
As for the rest of the vehicle, you'd be surprised what can be recovered with a little bit of sweat. It's a royal pain in the ass, but you can bring back most finishes.
Body shops (not paint shops) make it seem like it's some clever task that only a Paint Wizard of the Fourth Order can accomplish with Magical Sausages, and must always involve entire panels lest a plague of Mac Users be released from the Realm of Irritable Demons, but they are
FUCKING FULL OF SHIT!
Half of them know less than one quarter of what you can learn in an eighth of a day.
Honestly, they should all be castrated.
You can do it right with less expense than you might think, and clean up the rest of the vehicle a panel at a time over a few weekends. Give it a good, hard coat of
quality wax, and it will be well protected.
Cheers,
Kennith
used to have a beautiful 83 cj7 jeep I did a frame up restoration and self painted with custom color single stage roll in be liner floor looked awesome, sold it for good money too, currently have a 46 army jeep i frame up motor pool restored guess I am just a jeep in rover body
