orange peel, bad paint rectification

[lordlee]

Hi All,
Mate has bought an old bentley to smoke around in but one side has had bad paint on it. The paint looks like it has gone on a bit heavy and looks like orange peel. Question is can this be saved without respraying by sanding with a fine grade wet and dry or will it need to go in for a respray?

[wrightygtt]

Hi without seeing the car, what the paints like and how much is on there its hard to give an opinion, although if you do have a go at wet flatting, use 2000 wet with a block making sure the panals cleaned before hand with warm soapy water on a small area preferably low down to begin with( so its not in your face if it doesn't work) you'd also need a mechanical mop and relevent cutting compounds
to get rid of the flatting marks

Edited by wrightygtt on Thursday 25th February 22:54

[kds keltec]

lordlee said:

Hi All,
The paint looks like it has gone on a bit heavy and looks like orange peel. Question is can this be saved without respraying by sanding with a fine grade wet and dry or will it need to go in for a respray?

can be wet sanded and polished back

here

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...

here

http://www.pistonheads.co.uk/gassing/topic.asp?h=0...

so the answer is yes after some carefull paint depth readings and you know there is enought scope with regards to paint depth .


kelly