Don't know if they do or don't have the right color. Stranger things have happened. The reason you go to a good custom power coat shop is they sandblast everything first and then run the aluminum through before the oxide layer forms. You will struggle to equal that by hand.
I took mine to my local powder coat guy and told him my intentions. He blasted them and pc’d them primer grey and I drove em right over to my paint guy to spray em.
I think I’m going to make this change on mine, BM + Black. Looks great!
You can comfortably paint both aluminum pieces with two cans of base color and two cans of 2k clear. I didn’t paint the insides, just left them raw aluminum. I also used two cans of Eastwood 2k epoxy primer.
Did the epoxy primer work long term? No peeling etc? Did you do any sort of etch first?
I just did them three weeks ago so no way of knowing yet. I worked the pieces pretty good with a da and 150g paper, cleaned them with prep-all, and then sprayed the eastwood epoxy primer which is supposedly self etching and suitable on aluminum. I know there are some really good aluminum etch pre-primers that you can use if you have an air system and a spray gun.
While I PC’d the rockers, I did a similar method on my Savvy bumpers which are also aluminum and that was a few months ago and they’re holding nicely. Sanded, cleaned, prepped, and used black SEM self etching primer.
That’s why I did the steel sliders and the bumpers all with rattle can duplicolor bed armor. I keep a couple cans handy for easy touch up
I've installed a couple and used this to reduce the metal on metal. You could spray the tub, sliders, or both. The ones I did, I sprayed both. Just be careful to let it cure for 24 to 48 hours.
If you go this route, I use one can per side. It's usually 2 to 3 coats, depending on how heavy you spray it.
