It seems like a bad idea but just wanted to get some input.

I was going to pickup some new fenders and hood and paint them before i get to the rest of my car (doing the $50 paint job)

The main question is... if these are done within a week or so of each other would it affect how the entire car come out when everything is painted, sanded.. ect.. ect..

 

I'm not a professional painter (which i feel it's necessary to disclaim before posting info, so people don't get all bent out of shape...)

I've read around that when you're doing a pearl, and metallic paint job it's more difficult to match them all up because of how many coats you lay on etc.

We all know that the actual color/tint/hue/whatever of a paint changes based on whats underneath it, so if you paint one panel and it has an ever so slightly different amount of paint on it, it'll look different to the discerning eye.

Some manufacturers claim that their products offer significant coverage to get full coverage in 2 coats or what have you. If you have to do this then it might benefit you to paint the same number of coats each time. (Although even then it might not be the same)

I've read in some other forums, posted by long time painters, that things are much easier just to paint it all at the same time.

http://www.hotrodders.com

This one guy at this site, he's like the site's go to guy I guess, user name is Barry K, he wrote an article once, answering people's FAQ's or something like that, and I remember specifically that he answered one persons question exactly like yours and in more or less words, it was kinda like "if you want to do this because of a money issue, save more money, if you wanna do this because of a time issue, realize that it's going to take less time to paint the whole car with the pieces then to do them individually."

If you really wanna do this, use solid colors, you'll have a better chance at getting it to look right.

 

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the car is either going to be a solid blue or silver color so i guess i should be good

thanksss

 

But if its just gonna be like a weeks time between when you paint the new parts and the rest of the body, why don't you just wait a week and paint it all at once. Wouldn't that be much much easier?

 

Well it wouldn't be a few weeks and I didn't say there wasn't any time lol Was just curious as to if there would be any difference in the texture.

Putting the new fenders on as we speak and just going to bang out the paint in one shot. Thanks guys

 

in all honestly if i were in your position i would not do that 50 dollar paint job. but you should just wait till you have everything so you can do it all in one shot if you go through with it.