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Hi can anyone tell me if when using 2k paint, do you have to lacquer it. For example if i have a flat white colour made up in 2k like one of the audi's or Bmw's, would i have to finish it with a clear coat of lacquer or could you just leave it in the colour coat and polish it. Appreciate your thoughts.
Excellent thanks, I have one more thing that i could do with some advice on. The garage were i am painting the car is not really that big, it is not big enough for me to open the doors on the car fully so i was going to take them off and paint the shell and door shuts engine bay etc and then when dry push it out side and paint the doors bonnet boot separately. Is it ok to do it like that or will the doors and bonnet etc look a different shade to the rest of the shell. i was hoping to have one of these new water based whites that we see running around made up in 2k. hope this makes sense thanks.
The older solid reds, blues & greens were well known for oxidising. People then compounded them, stepped back to admire their efforts & then wondered a couple of weeks later why they were as bad as before. What they needed to do was to apply a decent polish to protect the newly exposed surface.
2k solids don't usually do this & there is no real need to clearcoat. Obviously if you are using a solid basecoat then you do need to clearcoat.
Any paint does benefit from being cleaned from time to time!
2k solids don't usually do this & there is no real need to clearcoat. Obviously if you are using a solid basecoat then you do need to clearcoat.
Any paint does benefit from being cleaned from time to time!
Providing the paint is all out of the same tin then you shouldn't have any problems.
That's actually how I resprayed my Classic Range Rover. One panel at a time. Not ideal, but no issues. Had to do it that way as the car was in use & saved taking it all to bits, although I did remove the bonnet to give access to remove the scuttle panel (the panel between the bonnet & the windscreen). Cypress Green metallic. Used Lesonal SB solvent base & being metallic needs clearcoat.
The panels you paint MAY be slightly different to the ones you don't paint though which is why its advised to blend onto adjacent panels. That said, I SMART repair caravans professionally so I'm doing jobs in the middle of panels & the paint has to be exact or its a bit obvious.
I have the paint exact eyematched to the make of the van by my supplier - £18 charge plus minimum 1/2 litre of paint - & whilst its fine with the whites & Bailey's pale beiges (I have 4 different shades for Baileys) it doesn't always work on other colours. Esp the silver metallic vans which I won't touch. So if your paint was matched in that way to your car then you may not have a problem.
That's actually how I resprayed my Classic Range Rover. One panel at a time. Not ideal, but no issues. Had to do it that way as the car was in use & saved taking it all to bits, although I did remove the bonnet to give access to remove the scuttle panel (the panel between the bonnet & the windscreen). Cypress Green metallic. Used Lesonal SB solvent base & being metallic needs clearcoat.
The panels you paint MAY be slightly different to the ones you don't paint though which is why its advised to blend onto adjacent panels. That said, I SMART repair caravans professionally so I'm doing jobs in the middle of panels & the paint has to be exact or its a bit obvious.
I have the paint exact eyematched to the make of the van by my supplier - £18 charge plus minimum 1/2 litre of paint - & whilst its fine with the whites & Bailey's pale beiges (I have 4 different shades for Baileys) it doesn't always work on other colours. Esp the silver metallic vans which I won't touch. So if your paint was matched in that way to your car then you may not have a problem.
Edited by paintman on Saturday 15th March 16:31
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