What’s the best and easiest way to go about repairing this? I’m not familiar with body work but I’d like to try and fix it myself to save money. Spot is about the size of a quarter

 

It depends on the finish you're looking for. You could use a touch up pen and it'll be close but not perfect in finish quality. You could come up with a cool decal idea like the Mojave edition that had the lizard going on the fender and hope that covers it. Alternative is of course full body work or find one on eBay/ car-part.com, etc. Used could be $100 and up. We all know paint is pricey unless you know the guy buying and shooting it.

 

For someone not skilled in body repair, the decal route is a really good option if you can find something that you liked and was not awkwardly placed. Otherwise you're looking at sanding, priming, sanding, painting with a good color match, light wet sanding, several coats of good clear......all while blending in the best you can if not having to do the entire fender.

 

What is the recommended grit for sanding?

 

Do you have a picture further out to see more of the jeep? What color is that? Metalic colors are usually a bit easier to blend as the specs break things up, flatter/solid colors harder so. You need a good variety of sand paper, usually starting around 240 grit and getting higher. You might watch plenty of youtube videos and see if you're up for it. From touchups I've done, the hardest part is the clear coat cuz you can't blend that well. You pretty much have to clear coat the entire piece up to a seam or transition. There should be a bevy of videos on this kind of touch up though.

 

Commando green....only made in 2013

 

Ahhhh, I can see now. That color is pretty misleading in that light, and the location of that little spot really sucks. This is one reason why I never cared about painted flares. I really don't know what I'd do if that was mine. I'd probably just take a little touch up spray, tape things off to a small area, and touch it up knowing it's not going to be perfect.....cuz outside of addressing the whole flare properly, it might not look any better. It's also a very weird place for a decal.....but I wouldn't rule that avenue out.

 

Now I know why I don't like the painted fenders due to the wheeling we do. I scrape mine every time I go out. Not sure if those painted units are rough texture like the black ones but it looks like you need a high solids filler primer then wet sand with up to 2000grit wet/dry sandpaper with it wet. Then epoxy primer then base then clear. Blending clear as mentioned earlier, is an art so most people (including painters) simply clear the entire fender, in your case. That also means you have to wet sand the entire fender clearcoat for the next layer to adhere. If you go wheeling a lot then my advice is to strip them down to black, or swap them, cause you are going to cry every time you go near a tree or rock. If you are a parking lot wheeler then go ahead and bite the bullet and paint it to look good again. Wish mine shined like that but it goes down 5ft wide tree shrub covered roads a lot.

 

Nice thing is you can usually find new black takeoffs for cheap Something like that will be hard to fix yourself unless you know what you are doing. You could pull it off and take it to a body shop to repair when they have time and maybe find out if they ever have a one the same color scheduled for repair otherwise you will be paying for a lot of paint for a small job.

 

Hey Karls 10JK what front bumper are you running? I like the looks of it.