Blacked out hood

[adventure_is_necessary]

I get the benefits of having your hood blacked out with a flat/matte paint, but is black the only color that offers the same benefits, or can I run any flat/matte color?

 

[nickburt]

Needs to be a darker colour to absorb sun (bright) light and therefore stop reflection/glare.

 

[soonersfan]

Needs to be a darker colour to absorb sun (bright) light and therefore stop reflection/glare.

Are you thinking this might not be a good option?

 

[NightCrawler]

I went with some vinyl decals for mine in a matte finish and that seems to help out a ton with glare back from the silver paint. I don't see why any complementary flat/matte texture wouldn't do the same ...you are only knocking down the shine that is making the rays reflect.

 

[Hafaday]

A darker color is the best. but a matte/eggshell color in what you have will help a lot. Think a white clear-coat hood.. put a sheet of white computer paper in the same spot as the suns reflection off the hood. you will go from a glaring bright spot to a big dull semi bright spot.

My $.02

 

[theBROFESSOR]

Michael did an article on the forum a while back...Here is the link...

https://www.overlandbound.com/anti-glare-hood-blackout/

 

[VCeXpedition]

I originally blacked out a portion of my hood (on a white car) with Plasti-dip to try to see if that would help the glare.
The glare that I was getting was only from the sun, I don't have roof-mounted lights to worry about.

The flat/matte black helped quite a bit, even though only a portion of the hood was covered.

Fast-forward to the life-span of the Plasti-dip and it's time to upgrade -- need justified.

Plasti-dip is crap for this application, and I use 'crap' in the kindest sense of the word, it just did not last and I think the combination of direct sun exposure and underhood temperatures, which the 80 series is famous for, just killed the coating. Not the best way to use that.

So, I removed it (it's much harder than they tell you, it took 1 1/2 hours with a pressure washer to get it off), and decided that the paint underneath is now compromised. If I left it uncovered, it would deteriorate quickly.
I decided at that point to use a vinyl wrap material, a matte finish fake-carbon fiber look. It took two guys about 30 minutes to cut it and make sure no bubbles underneath, but it turned out OK and has been pretty good to date.



Concept realized, I think the next time I remove the cowl piece, I will also cover that with the same material for consistency.


Dan.

 

[sleak]

I got some matte wrap material that's dark blue, as close as I could find to my paint color. It came with cutting thread tape; it should be interesting getting it installed once the weather warms up.