Respray at home?

[lord trumpton]

IvanSTi said:

Mr2Mike said:

IvanSTi said:

I've just done the front bumper on my car with rattle cans, finish is OK but not great, colour match is spot on, maybe if I spent 3 weeks doing it, rather than just the one week it would have been good. It cost me £100+ for paint, primer, lacquer, sand paper etc. If I'd taken it to a garage down the road to get it done, it would have cost £100, only taken 2 days and would have a good finish. I know what I'll be doing next time.

If it took you an entire week and £100 worth of materials to get a crap finish on a bumper, then definitely hand it into a paint shop next time.

You didn't get the paint and paper from Halfords did you?

Nope, was rattle cans remember. Wish I had just bought the paint to spray with the compressor, but felt lazy so opted for rattle cans, wasn't expecting it to take 8 cans of each to get a decent covering.

Took a week as I do work during the day so only had nights, some rained, some were too hot, but car was off the road for a week. Plus I took the bumper back to plastic which took a lifetime.

Did you paint your wheels green too?

[glasgowrob]

Fond memories of painting mk2 xr2s every weekend in a single garage using Steele 20/80

Budget paint jobs ftw

[IvanSTi]

lord trumpton said:

Did you paint your wheels green too?

Yes, they turned out a lot better, I spent more time prepping them, but cheated with the primer and suffering blistering now unfortunately.

ETA it's actually a chameleon colour, similar to that on a TVR, green to purple.

[Slow]

Started to give it a polish to see if that would save it, seems to be turning out ok, for a 87 defender at least.

Lots of missing paint areas though, what would you do?

[TooMany2cvs]

Slow said:

what would you do?

I'd get some sandpaper, a tin of Dulux and a brush.

[Slow]

Ended up not spraying her. Just a good polish, few rattle cans for the areas without red paint.

Did get sold though as I just couldnt get on with the driving position, really uncomfy, brilliant off road though.

Got a e38 im determined to spray though.

[rambo19]

paintman said:

You might find this of interest. Bear in mind this is for solid colours only. won't work with metallics/pearls.
http://www.landyzone.co.uk/lz/f16/how-hand-paint-l...

Thats me.

[mat205125]

Really interesting read all.

Going to be aiming to paint my Mk2 Escort at home over the coming few weeks.

Will be taking and sharing lots of pictures.

[ARHarh]

did this with a 1 inch paint brush some years ago. looks ok from 2 feet away.

[mat205125]

ARHarh said:

did this with a 1 inch paint brush some years ago. looks ok from 2 feet away.

2 feet, or 20 feet??

My car is a track / race car that will end up with some level of graphics, plus also inevitably attract dents, scrapes, gravel rash etc, so the standard of the job needs to be simply "adequate"