ok i messed up my car real bad. paint stripper didnt work to well for me so now i'll have to sand it down to the bare metal. whats the best way to do this and how long will it take me?

 

A good way to strip a whole car down to bare metal is by media blasting. Call around or buy a blaster. Sanding will take much longer. Nobody here knows your level of skill, technique and experience, so without that info its pointless to even guess.

 

first time doing this... if anything ill pay someone to paint my car.. this shop i went to just really pissed me off

 

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Media blasting is definately the way to go for stripping a car to bare metal, however buying a media blaster may be out of your price range...I would suggest calling around to see if a local shop has one. I wouldn't think that your average body shop/collision center would have a media blaster though, so I would ask custom paint shops.

If all else fails, get to sanding

 

Well its not a good idea to attempt a restoration without experience, completely on your own. I advise you to befriend someone with resto knowledge to help you and teach you along the way. Thats if you want a good, quality end result.

 

how did you use the paint stripper, it worked great for me, i bout some airplane **** (i just remember an airplane on the lable) black fenders, with a paint brush, put this **** on, sit for 10 mins, use a scraper and bare metal is there.

 

Well, first off what is your reason for going to bare metal? Alot of people think they have to sand to bare metal but it is nonsense (most the time). Depending on why you going to baremetal you can just use a grinder, or a DA with 80 grit. HAHA good luck if you doing it by hand.

 

Get some aircraft paint stripper from like autozone or whatever the autoparts store in your area is, just becareful not to get any one you and tape the car off

 

get these ,there by 3m and kick butt for stripping ,i swear they will do the hole car like nothing

you need a drill thgouh and the atachment

3 bucks for a pack of paper and 6 for the attachment

oh and buy the 80 grit ,not the green 40

they yellow packs in the pic

 

Buy a pack of razor blades I actually stripped part of a car like that, then went over it with 150 grit, believe it or not it didn't take too long lol.

 

so they didn't even start on your car yet?

 

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hell na. only reason they actually started yesterday was coz i went there pissed