This is why i don't try things myself.. Help

[Bobton125]

So the bottoms of my front arches had some bobbles of rust. With all the staying at home we're doing at the moment i thought i would rub it down to bare metal using a wire wheel on a dremel, key it with various grades of sandpaper, panel wipe it and mask it up. I then spray primed it and painted it with a pot of touch up paint and a brush (didn't have a spray sadly and can't go out to get one made up)

When pulling away the masking tape, it's left a very noticeable lip so, with my infinite wisdom thought to wet some grade 1200 sand paper and try to sand down the edges.

I feel like i could be making the area bigger and could have possibly damaged the paint around it!

How would you fix this? is it bad?

i was thinking to touch up the edges carely with a small brush and just clearcoat the lot with lacquer to try and make it blend in?

advice please!

Edited by Bobton125 on Sunday 29th March 14:24

[Jaybmw]

To many layers for a start. Your also talking of blowing in if your only painting a small area. What I'd do is unless it's a beater car stop now before you go to far. If you want to keep going sand the entire arch lip. Mask up the lip to the inner edge and go again. You wont do an any way good job using a brush. But if your not confident in your ability leave it be until you can go to a body shop. Make sure no bare metal is exposed in any case. As for is it really bad? No its not but it could turn into a few hundred quid in repairs.

[227bhp]

You should have lifted the edges of the masking up and it would have blended in better.

[Bobton125]

i touched up the edges with a finer brush.

Thought screw it, i've gone this far.. worst case scenario is a take it to a bodyshop if it ends up bad

Anyway, it looks slightly better now? what do you think i should do next ha, should i try and wet sand the edges more? or spray a light clear coat layer?

Edited by Bobton125 on Sunday 29th March 17:33

[M12MTR]

Porsche yes?
I did this when mine was new to prevent such chips which can then rust. You could do similar now to cover it / protect it?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BnvpVbwht0V/?igshid=17...

Edited by M12MTR on Sunday 29th March 19:20

[Bobton125]

M12MTR said:

Porsche yes?
I did this when mine was new to prevent such chips which can then rust. You could do similar now to cover it / protect it?
https://www.instagram.com/p/BnvpVbwht0V/?igshid=17...

Edited by M12MTR on Sunday 29th March 19:20

Well spotted it is a Porsche

That looks smart, where did you get that from?

[LennyM1984]

I would recommend buying some clear helicopter tape and applying that in the area. I did the same on my Cayman and it has worked surprisingly well.

In terms of your paint job, I think I'd just leave it as is. Nobody ever really looks in that area and it is a common/simple job for a bodyshop to repair at some point in the future (it'll only get stone chipped again). I just cleaned mine up and dabbed it with brush on touch up paint and it looks absolutely fine.

[pfnsht]

I'd sand it back smooth, start again - widen the area you're working on and back fold some masking tape around the area to create a softer edge.

Rough up the laquer with some 1500. Apply base paint of the area, but not up to the masking line. Allow to dry. Rub down with some 2000 grit. Apply a couple of coats of laquer, this time heading towards the masked area. Allow to dry for 48 hrs.

Then get some cutting polish and polish it back to a nice shine.

This chap has some good 5 min videos on paint repair with rattle cans https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vaga2RYllvE

[Bobton125]

thanks for the help everyone

So i rubbed the raised edges down again with sandpaper, touched up and then sprayed 2 coats of clear coat

much better.. the 2nd pic is after applying a strip of PPF which i just couldn't do a great job removing the tiny air bubbles as the surface along the wheel arch isn't very smooth. Hardly too noticeable though, so hopefully it'll help protect it. Still need to do the lower half

[paintman]

Did you use washing up liquid solution when applying the PPF?

[Bobton125]

I used a drop of car shampoo with water in a spray bottle
Literally couldn’t get out the tiny air bubbles so just thought it was because of the rippley paint?

[paintman]

Could well be.