I used a single stage metallic paint, have a little orange peel and some runs. I was told i cant wet sand a ss metallic paint, anything I can do to fix the bad spots. Also do I need to wait a while before I claybar and wash it.

 

ummm...graphics???looks o.k. in the photo though

 

from the looks of things you painted it outside with no protection from dust.....how did that turn out? No dust on the paint?

 

little dust but not bad I waited for a nice calm day, that is why im asking about the claybar hoping that will take some of it out.

 

clay bar is for the top of the paint, cleaning, overspray , ect. it wont cut threw to block it down. maybe try to wet sand a little spot ,then buff it and see how it looks. oh and start with some really high grit paper like 2000

 

nice driveway.

 

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</TD></TR></TABLE>hahha first thing i noticed

 

Wow I bet your neighbors are really happy with the overspray all over everything they own.

 

if you put sand paper to it, its going to sand off color. but it looks good from far away! haha

 

hey come on leave my drive way out of this, and it was a very calm day did not notice any overspray going the direction of the house.

 

thanks for the help so far I only paid $900 for the car and I'm pretty happy with the outcome. If this was a nicer car I would have made room in the garage and taken my time, but its just a project car not to worried about it.

 

what brand paint did you end up using?

 

nason paint, for the most part I was happy with it, most of the problems I think are from me being in a hurry. There was a fine line from to thin and orange peel and to thick and runs. It doesnt help that I did my practice and gun adjustments while I was painting the car, but by the last coat I had it down. lol

 

That's the reason I hate single stage metallics, because if it gets fucked up, you can't really fix it..

For metallic, you should have gone two stage.

 

nason paint is pretty cheap over all, why didnt you get a base/clear with nason atleast, then you could wet sand and buff or use the trizact system

 

The only way you'll get a run fixed right is to redo the panel it's on Even if you were using BC/CC, it's really hard to get a run out to the point it's un-noticeable (without burning through).

 

Dude for u painting it and the pics i give u a looks good in the pics bro.

 

clay bar you can do a few days after you paint it. to get the runs out you can try a buffer, but dont go through the clear. as for the orange peel, a lot of that depends on how well you preped the car before paint, so there isnt a lot you can do to fix it.

 

a buffer wont get the runs out of that ****.

repaint the panel, save yourself some heartache SERIOUSLY.

I always paint my own cars.

 

just respray the panel with the runs. a buffer will not get the runs out. you would need to take down the run with some high grit sand paper. say start with 1500 grit paper then bump it up to 200 then buff it out, but in a single stage metallic your kinda stuck

 

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haha overspray FTL

 

dam, that is some hardcore ****. for having the ***** to do that ****.

 

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yeah it is

 

Looks good from the pics, not the driveway though. I used single stage nason paint one time and it proved to be pretty durable and had a nice shine and color (for my purpose). But yeah you better hope your neighbors don't get pissed, it's illegal to be doing that anyways, and good luck getting the red otu fo the driveway.

post some close up pics with reflections, I wanna see the quality.

 

the drive way is no problem, my power washer got that right off, and the wind was blowing away from the nieghbors. Ill try to get some close ups, here are some pics of what I started with.