Taking detailing to the next level
Discussion
Hello Troops,
Last week my good lady presented me with below, she had an argument with a fence and the fence won.
A little closer look and you can see that it's quite deep and it's also slightly dented the door
So having been messing around lately with a bit of painting just on scrap panels up to this point i thought f
k it, i'm having a go at this, worst case i need to get it done professionally anyway so I really had nothing to lose by having a go. Got some paint ordered up and dug out the sandpaper and filler.
Sanded everything back and filled the gouge. So far so good
Next stage was sanding down the filler then priming the area for paint.
With the area primed it was ready for me to get tooled up ready for painting, good look isn't it
First coat of paint, again, so far so good.
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And with 4 coats of paint and 3 coats of clearcoat it's looking pretty good.
All that was left to do now was leave it for a couple of days to fully cure then wetsand it flat and polish
And finally a couple of pics of the finished job.
It's far from a perfect job but the car is far from perfect anyway, all in it probably took about 20 hours and the only cost apart from my time which is free was 26quid for paint, reckon i'd have been looking at a few hundred quid from a bodyshop. Pretty pleased with the result
John.
Last week my good lady presented me with below, she had an argument with a fence and the fence won.
A little closer look and you can see that it's quite deep and it's also slightly dented the door
So having been messing around lately with a bit of painting just on scrap panels up to this point i thought f
k it, i'm having a go at this, worst case i need to get it done professionally anyway so I really had nothing to lose by having a go. Got some paint ordered up and dug out the sandpaper and filler.Sanded everything back and filled the gouge. So far so good
Next stage was sanding down the filler then priming the area for paint.
With the area primed it was ready for me to get tooled up ready for painting, good look isn't it
First coat of paint, again, so far so good.
[url]And with 4 coats of paint and 3 coats of clearcoat it's looking pretty good.
All that was left to do now was leave it for a couple of days to fully cure then wetsand it flat and polish
And finally a couple of pics of the finished job.
It's far from a perfect job but the car is far from perfect anyway, all in it probably took about 20 hours and the only cost apart from my time which is free was 26quid for paint, reckon i'd have been looking at a few hundred quid from a bodyshop. Pretty pleased with the result
John.
Thanks chaps, to answer the few questions, it was just done on my driveway, pretty good coverage so not a lot of wind. Oli, I used an acrylic basecoat for the paint and a Non Isocyanate 2k clear, non Iso stuff isn't quite as robust as an Iso 2k so we'll see how it goes.
And if anyone's interested gun was a devilbiss gti pro connected to a 50l 3hp, machine mart compressor, compressor actually works really well for this stuff
And Mike, yeah I was totally rockin that look eh
John.
And if anyone's interested gun was a devilbiss gti pro connected to a 50l 3hp, machine mart compressor, compressor actually works really well for this stuff
And Mike, yeah I was totally rockin that look eh
John.
paulqv said:
Interesting look John!! I know you tend to dress like that quite often ..........Don't think i was meant to mention that!
Anyway, have you been 'burned out' by your neighbours for doing manual work in your driveway in 'fur coat nae knickers' land?
Hope to see the garage soon!
Paul
I did get a few funny looks, think they might have thought the CSI were in digging up the driveway Anyway, have you been 'burned out' by your neighbours for doing manual work in your driveway in 'fur coat nae knickers' land?
Hope to see the garage soon!
Paul
John.
Allandwf said:
Good thread, and good looking job. I'm just doing the same on a wee shopping trolly, rust cut out ,repaired, filled and rubbed down and primed. Work intervened, so will top coat, laquer, flat and polish when I get back. Will be well pleased if looks as good as that.
Let us see it when it's done, did you weld in the new metal yourself? That's the next thing I want to learn John.
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