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Anyone with a metallic paint colour (i.e. black sapphire metallic) done a respray on their car?

Reason for question is wondering if you needed to apply clear coat / lacquer to it i.e.

- primer 

- few coats of paint / 24 hour dry

- sand 1200 grit, then few coats of lacquer

 

I've done some resprays in the past and i recently overheard a rumour that some bmw paints don't have the clear coat, or is this maybe some of the newer paints. or is this rumour a nothing-burger.

 

Any insight would be sweet. 

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Better yet if any one has painting experience could you chuck up the procedure that you did.

i.e. did you sand back the metallic paint with 800+ grit

lacquer ? 

 

Thanks heaps

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I have black sapphire metallic paint and I resprayed some parts of the car, like front spoiler, tailgate, interior trim and wheels.

I sanded all areas back thoroughly, and spray gunned on primer. Preparation is everything.

Then I lightly sanded the primer, cleaned, and then spray gunned top coats and then clear coats.

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did you sand back the paint coats and clear ?  what with?

Thanks heaps !

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Yes I sanded back the paint coats and clear coats, some areas down to bare metal.

I started with rough grit sandpaper and worked my way all the way down to 2000 to avoid scratches.

I'm not a pro painter - there are others in here who can probably advise better than I can.

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yeah , all i needed to know bro ! thanks so much.

I'm not a pro painter either, done plenty of resprays pretty well, but was just checking to see if there was anything out side of the norm.

Good luck with your V8 project!

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You shouldnt need to sand between the base coat and clear coat, just allow about 5 minutes to dry between. Are you using 2 pak clear or single pack?

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On 20/08/2017 at 0:53 PM, 325_driver said:

Aja probably 2 pack, anything to recommend?

Yes  I recommend all the PPE.  Make sure your respirator works/seals correctly as well. 

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4 hours ago, 325_driver said:

GESUS - $210 per/litre for the black sapphire paint code

Yea, its not cheap, although I dont remember paying quite that much.

Are you painting the whole car?

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not whole car - although it got pretty tempting to - since i have to respray entire bonnet and bumper and a few pillars.

I got some serie 500 berobase

ended up ringing around after i purchased the paint, and another company was selling an autothane mix of it for like $70-$90 per litre ... bugger ! but i don't think it was a base coat type quality but they said it wouldn't matter provided i got the under coat sorted.

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Has the clear coat come away?

Can you put up a pic of the car?

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On Sunday, August 20, 2017 at 0:53 PM, 325_driver said:

Aja probably 2 pack, anything to recommend?

Im using a cheapish omni clear from car colours, have also used autothane 2k and had decent results with both.

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The trick is build the paint up in many thin layers than in a couple layers

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On 8/25/2017 at 5:29 PM, zero said:

Has the clear coat come away?

Can you put up a pic of the car?

The paint job on a bit of it is definitely botch - clear is ok ish - but the primer / base coat is lifting off areas ! and some serious cracks forming.

Aparently the car was in a crash before i bought it - and there was a bit of a re-spray, but probably not the best of jobs!

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Sanding back that bumper is a ####!

It's coming off the car when i get to the work shop

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Prangs on the bumper take ages to rebuild a nice smooth curve, what a nightmare !

On closer inspection the person who did the paint job on the car before I got it must have done a sh*t job, paint is peeling crowe footing it everywhere.

It begun as just bumper and C panel

now progressing towards + bonet and boot / rear end of the car.

Might as well do the whole car!

 

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Good progress:D

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Lol ... bumper is a SON OF A B#

especially having to rebuild some edges from a prang, did some old soldering iron plastic welding, that was quite an experience.

 

Now have to sand back the entire rear end of the vehicle  + bonnet.

Might post some photos of some more progress - it is quite a mission, so worth keeping for memory.

I think this is the last time in my life i ever do a bumper.

 

Have to do some panel fades / blending too as i dont want to do the entire rear panels as some of the paint is mint, just the last half of it looks like where some repairs were a while ago and is peeling  big time.

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dont know who did the paint job before i purchased the vehicle - but as you can see, the paint is jumping off the metal.

looks alot uglier than in these photos i assure you

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Looks like the bonnet has has a fair share of resprays ... 6 different layers under the clear coat!!

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