So the girlfriend back into my eg hatch. Got insurance money and I'm painting my car. Looking into doing a single stage but i'd like to see a few first. Leaning towards red. Post whatever single stage paint job u have!

 

WTF kinda topic is this?

 

Single stage paint jobs are different than basecoat clearcoat. Idk if i want single stage or not. So I want to see some. If you would've read the post you would know that.

 

just look at the maaco thread-

most of all of those paint jobs in that thread are polyurethane single stage jobs.

 

it will turn out well, as long as the car is well prepped and sanded really smooth-

as long as you have experience with using a spray gun, you can always cut and buff out the orange peel after it cures if it really bothers you

 

post your "low cost alternative to quality" threads are poppin up a lot. there is a "post your car on stock wheels thread" there is a sportmaxx thread.

if i were a mod i would delete them. it looks about as tacky as curse words in a topic title. someone who has never been on this site would click this subforum and say "this must be the trailerpark"

i understand if youre in college, maybe youre in highschool, work part time, or maybe youre scamming cali unemployment to build you car, but still...you dont have to SCREAM im a cheap ***. or in this case, the insurance company is giving you enough to repair a bumper and youre trying to spread those few buccks over your entire car.


now, to HELP you, i will say your money is better spent on:

1. an air compressor
2. an HVLP gun
3. some visqueen
4. a spare hood to practice
5. about 20-30 hours of studying


ever think of that? try it. you might like it. this is EXACTLY what i did back when i was broke and 21. now i have the money to fling at some place like MOB works, and i would STILL do it myself. (in january, i cant wait, **** will look like i washed it in baby oil)

 

dude it is totally can be done by yourself with time and lots of work....
I did my who car in my garage for about 700 bucks that was base coat clear coat...

a few pics of my car for reference

 

^ looks good

 

looks very clean, well done

 

did it myself, with help from friends, in my garage... lots of reading, getting treated like
dirt from the lady with a mustache at the paint supply store- but it came out decent...

a lil orange peal but not too horrible...

single stage mango green...

 

eeeeew that color is disgusting

 

Phoenix Yellow is a single stage.

 

and coincidentally... also disgusting

 

ROFL.

 

thanks,... you're so effing cool...

 

i see you are part of the 225/45/16 club. welcome.



and billboard, why is it that whenever someone points out that someone's car looks like bigfoot's dick, the owner of that car always has to make a some half assed "back atcha" comment? why is that, bro?

 

i dont know bro; i've never seen bigfoots dick... its nice to see you stick up for
one of your hater-friends... you guys are gonna start a movement...

 

yes maybe we will. we will call it "the EF preservation society". try and keep people from dressing them up like baby poop and putting flat billed hats in side of them....among other things.

interested, maynard?

 

goodluck in your quest...sucks you cant put your hat inside of your car these days
without someone on HT getting upset...

 

i like single stage paint...nothing wrong with it.... people that think its low quality don't know sh*t

 

This thread is pure comedy. I like your paint job billboard even if it does kinda look like baby ****. Its good to see someone thinking outside the box, and not just going with the flow like most people. I just painted my 91 Hatch, It was a base/clear job, from light blue to Grand Prix White from S2000. I used ppg shopline base and a cheap no name "high gloss" clear. all and all cost me only $130

 

 

Jeez, I thought you knew bro..

 

This car was ROUGH.....BAD RUST and DENTS everywhere. We were moving from my shop and crash coursed repaired the car (all metal) and painted it. As you can see here and there, there were little dings that were left for flavor...lol. Its about 1000x better than it was.

 

^^^clean eg nice work