Respray at home?

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Bought this over the weekend. On the body where it's flaked, it appears to be white, with maybe a green/blue and now this red colour. Horrible work.

Really like the look of the new Range Rover firenze red colour.

How hard is it to spray it up at home?

Can you even buy Land Rover colours? This is all I could find but its in the states.
http://www.amazon.com/Land-Rover-Evoque-Firenze-Pe...


Obviously it wont be perfect but its a D reg Defender so who cares?

Got a 50l compressor, spray gun and a large garage which I can seal up for 2 days to spray. Don't mind sanding it down myself, have done it before on a friends defender who we hand painted with rollers. Not the best finish but he didn't care, had multiple colours before from changing panels.



Posted in the land rover section earlier but didn't get many reply's.

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Thanks for the replies, I've got my old 02 bmw which I've stripped for spares so have most of a shell left I could practice on.

It's a defender with not 100% straight panels so not expecting much! Even the newest defenders which are sold in this Firenze red have wavy panels haha

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john2443 said:

Mr2Mike said:

..manufacturers hands are tied in terms of paint systems they are permitted to use

Mr2Mike said:

..a blind man rubbing a paint sodden cat over the panels

Although H&S does go too far in some cases, I can understand why they would be concerned about this approach

This is just one example of said cat!

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TooMany2cvs said:

Slow said:

This is just one example of said cat!

That's crappy prep, though - the paint just never stuck to what was under it in the corners that were a little bit harder to flat down.

Theres a 6 inch gap of peeled off paint on the wing too, cant be that hard to sand there. Just doesnt appear to have had anything done bar paint sprayed over the top.


Hence why no matter how bad I fk up, it cant be worse.

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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?

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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.