How many people here paint there own cars? I am really interested in doing it but dont really know what Im getting into. My car right now is mostly all new parts ie; kit, wing, hood, f-fenders, doorsand are all fibreglass. Is it really hard to do?
Is paint expensive for a normal colour like Stealth Blue. Do I need to rent a lot of stuff?

I dont want to drive my car all primerred and ****. I was gonna just spray paint the bitch black or silver(cars silver now and so are door jams). THe engine bay is black and I dont care if it stays like that but I want the james to be the same.

Should I just spray paint the car, which still doesnt look bad bad but wont be smooth and wil have some inperfections and save the whole time for good paint job

OR

try and paint my car myself and maybe lose 500 (whatever) which I cant afford and not be able to even affor a new paitn job in the summer.

If I sprayed it I would be getting a pro job when I get my t4 in February

Any tips? Opinions?

Kevin

 

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I just did, But with spray paint but it came out great. I Sanded, taped everything off, primed, painted and cleared. Do it very carefully and it will come out ok.

 

What colour did you do? Im pretty sure I might spray paint it silver again and maybe a bit darker. Will only be temporary if I spray paint it but still dont wont it looking like complete ****. I could always paint it black so imperfections dont show? Then get my dark blue professional paint job?

So should I paint black to hide off colours or paint silver to keep most of my cars colour then get professional job late winter??

 

id say dont mess with it and save up for a better paint job instead of spray paint

in the end you will be happy becuase you will need to strip all the spray paint off if you gonna get a paint job
in the end this will also cost you more

so save up or try going to macco

 

I'm going to be painting my car myself for the first time in the next comming months, as well as doing the body work for it (it need new portions of each panel!), so we'll see how it all goes. I'll be doing it with a paint gun and all that fun stuff though.

keith

 

u get what you pay for , you pay 5 dollars fo a spray can , thats what youll get in quality

 

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If you're on a budget go get MAACO. I'd rather spend a couple hundred dollars then do it myself and be totally unhappy with my work.

 

It cost me 50 bucks and about 4 hours. If I can I'll try and post the pictures. Its not perfect but deff doesn't look like normail spray can job. We sanded, primed, Painted and cleared the whole thing. I deff doesn't look like crappy 14 year old paint anymore and Im pretty proud of doing it myself. If you just need it to get by you'll be fine. and after all if you get it done professionally later they gotta strip it anyway so give it a whirl.

 

Oh and its a dark silver metalic wich basically looks black at night but during the day its hot

 

post some pics?

wanna see if a spray painted car can come out descent

just need something to hold me over, its that or I rock an unpainted wing/kit/hood/fenders and all the **** I shave no thanks

 

dont do it dogg, its just not worth it.

 

Don't be cheap, pay a professional.

 

I did it my self to me it was woth it cause i work for a place with a nice spray gun and had the advice of a pro on what to do but it takes a long time to do it right when i did mine it dissasembled the car to do it so it took me about five days working 10-14 hours a days on it (would have done more but i had a full time job also) so if you have enough time to do it your self go for it but do it right if not take it to a pro

 

if you'd prefer go and not show, why do it professionally? personally, my civic is a daily driver and is gonna have road abuse and i want it to be quick and handle well. so why do i want to spend like $3k or so and have the car totally repainted in an awesome color and then have it destroyed in a years time?

Oh, Spooled1.6L, post some pictures! I want to see!!

 

I'm not going to tell you that you shouldn't paint your car because I have painted 50% of the new parts on my car "proffessionaly" and they turned out factory but...If you are serious about painting your car, at least go it right. I bought a hvlp paint gun, compressor, PPG Paint, and spend lots of time talking to a guy at a paint shop who's become a friend almost and whom I have learned tremensally from. I started doing little things like grillls, and license plate things on your trunk, then moved on to spoilers and bumpers. You get better the more you do, so if you are going to paint your car, get an hvlp paint gun, and air compressor, and quality paint. Do it right the first time. Once you can get it down, you can paint anything you want in the future and save lots of money and get the same quality job if done right. Just don't rattlecan.

 

if you dont know what you are doing dont do it unless your car looks so stupid people are following you around and beating your ***
unless you feel you are the master of applying paint, which i doubt, no offense

 

hey riceracist how come youve been ignoring my instant messages???

 

If you really wanna do a good job. Rent a good air compressor (industrial) and buy a professional airbrush. Then, get the paint color and buy it from multiple retailers online.
If you can do a good job of wetsanding, taping, detailing, AND perfect smoothing, then you can definitely paint a car.
$200 Air brush link from http://www.airbrush-depot.com
$100 Paint
$100 Tape, detail supplies, sand supplies
$100 Air compress rental
$20 1 month storage place with adequate size AND APPROVAL of place (not uhaul storage for sure, find a mom and pop place that is barely in business, they'll let you do it there)

You could have one bad *** paint job, or learn from the experience and still have a nice paint job.
Gotta learn sometime, that's how i see it.
I'm in the process of having a 3car garage built seperate of my house for hybrid swap and paint jobs. But, i know it's not as easy as it may look.
Anyway, good luck, make sure to update us.

 

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definitely HVLP! it's not that expensive, and it's better than the sprayers they use anywhere else (like, any place you would pay an arm and a leg to paint your car, they usually are commercial sprayers, and not as good as one's you could buy). Make sure you pick a sprayer that is made for "amateur painters", cuz they won't look as bad when you mess up. They don't rob you of beauty, it's just not good for pro painters who can go really fast and smooth, and need a finer, harder spray...
anyway, just my .02, i'm learning a lot on a car painting forum.

 

Painting isnt too hard, dont be intimidated. Make sure you keep the gun about 6-8 inches away at all times. Dont make a fan motion w/ the gun. Move your whole body as if you were dancing instead of just swinging your arm. When you paint, pull the trigger back part way so air just comes out then press it back more so the paint comes out whiloe your still on a masked area. Overlap your lines 50%. Theres some more stuff im learing right now in autobody but it sint too complicated if you like checked out a book at the library or a autoboday class book from a local highschool and follow the directions step by step. When I painted my panel in class, my teacher said i had the best/smoothest looking panel and if i was tryin to match it to an OEM job, mine would have been TOO smooth. When wet sanding after clrearing it. Do 600 grit then (optional) 100 grit, then must do 2000. Then buff and wax it.

 

what exactly is wetsanding? Im guessing its sading with wet sandpaper? I honestly cant understand the point of this? If im using a power sander I just wet the paper, stick it on and sand? I dont get the point

 

you could, uh , instant message me back instead of ignoring me for the past 3 days. how about that?

 

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Pho real...........he told me that he got this settled......

instead of wasting money on your paint, send the man his fenders back