Help, Iave painted several cars in my past. Always lacquer and then clear.now my question, on my A is a old tired lacquer paint job. No cracking, a lot of chips,bare spots and oxidized paint. I color sanded a fender 400 paper. It looks pretty good. Now my question. Should I finish color sanding the car, then clear coat,sand and buff.or just color sand car and buff of other.Thank all for your answers.
Painting questions
- Thread starter Spokes
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Gunmetal blue2
Senior Member
A lot depends on what your trying to do, touch up bad spots or make the A look better with the paint on it.
Make the paint look better with the paint on it
if it has chips and bare spots you are going to have to repaint the whole car, chips are hard to hide and bare spots need to be repainted, I don't like clear coats, the reason being is, look at all the new cars with the white haze on the roof, hood and deck lid, that is clear coat failing, sun kills clear coat, just use a one step paint, no clear coat, color sand and buff, metalics are the worst for fading and getting the haze on the car
Logan
Well-known member
400 is to heavy of a scratch to buff or to put clear on top of. Clear won't cover 400 scratch, but would cover 800. You pretty much scuffed the paint like you were going to shoot over the top of it with new color coat. Except you can't paint modern paint strait over old laquer. The solvents will just go through the old laquer, bubble up then pop the paint off. You could have just broke the surface, and opened up the pores in the paint with 2000 wet, then buffed and polished it and it would have looked brand new again if you know how to buff. 400 grit is what I spray base coat or single stage urethane enamel on top of. That's way to heavy of a scratch to buff out.
Purdy Swoft
Well-known member
Logan is right on !!!
Thank you Logan, I am going to color sand with 2000 wet buff and polish. Thanks again