Comments on: How To Re-Paint A Car – Part One – General Information

By: craig

craig — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:54:16 +0000

Hey Sean,
You could use any ‘cut and polish’ type product to polish up your basecoat, however if your colour is metallic it will need a couple of coats of clear laquer to protect it and to get a good shine out of the surface.

By: sean

sean — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:01:43 +0000

i am wondering if their was any heavy wax that would polish base coat acrylic with out using any laquer it would make things a lot easier thanks for all help

By: sean mc menamin

sean mc menamin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 21:38:48 +0000

i am touching up amondeo with acrilic paint and lackure i found coments helpfull

By: craig

craig — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:05:26 +0000

Hi Ray,
I will try and answer your questions as best I can, but please keep in mind that I’m not an expert and that this info comes from what I have learnt over the years doing respray’s for myself and some friends.

Wet sanding between coats is a really good way to get a nice flat, glossy finish. Obviously this takes extra time when waiting for the paint to dry, rubbing it down, drying everything out and on to the next coat. Personally I only do it when a really good finish if required and I know of a number of people that simply lay all the colour coats down, throw a few coats of clear over the top and then cut and polish the paint with an electric buffer and while this can look ok too, in my opinion the finish is never quite the same as when you wet sand between coats.

So please yourself on that one, if you have the time and you are looking for a really good finish then I would recommend it, otherwise spraying all the coats and then buffing the paint can work too.

With regards to the number of coats, I like to get a minimum of two coats of colour on before applying the clear and if you decide to go with wet sanding between coats I suggest that you go with three coats of colour because even though you are using a light sandpaper (1200 or thereabouts) you still remove some of the paint in the sanding process and you might find two coats a little thin.

Two coats of clear over the colour should be fine. If you decide to cut and polish the panel with an electric buffer after all the coats are on just be careful along the edges as it is easy to ‘burn’ through the paint.

Getting the colour to match the rest of the car is really a fine art, certainly if you put some time into it you will be able to get the same ‘texture’ or ‘look’ of the existing paint but if it is even the slightest bit faded you will more than likely have trouble actually colour matching the new paint. Even some of the best spray painters around have trouble getting colour matches perfect so I honestly can’t advise you on the correct way of doing this!

Good luck and if there is anything else you need to know shoot me an email and I’ll do my best to answer it for you.

Regards,
Craig

By: ray

ray — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:54:02 +0000

hi just wanting to know the step by step to respray a car panel using arcylic

i have everything preped and ready to go but just abit confussed on the painting

1 when spraying with arcylic do i wet sand inbetween coats

2 spray 2 coats then add clear coat

any help or a step by step quide will be very useful im hopeing to get the color just right to match the rest of the car

By: craig

craig — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 06:51:12 +0000

Hi Bazz,
I’m not very familiar with enamel paints I’m sorry. I’ve done a respray with two pack enamel but as far as the properties of the paint or possible problems I’m not up to speed. Perhaps a chat with your paint supplier might shed some light on it for you.

Regards,
Craig

By: bazz

bazz — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:19:33 +0000

Really helpful stuff….now can you please tell me about enamel paints??I painted my car but at curves…when the sunlight is out…it just shines weird…and looks bad…although I havnt put on clear coat…..What do you think?

By: Baz

Baz — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:53:24 +0000

Hi Craig,
Thanks for the hints,geart, could you point me in the right direction to get the water filter that you mentioned in one of your video clips, it looks good. I think you called it “manticka”, but not sure.

thanks,

Baz

By: craig

craig — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:05:54 +0000

No problem, best of luck with it.

Regards,
Craig

By: Barry

Barry — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 08:59:41 +0000

Thanks craig. I think I might do that.

Cheers mate.