Help with Paint
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Help with Paint
So i've got a lot of dings and nicks on my hood and front bumper, as well as a massive scratch from getting keyed. I kind of want to fill these but there's a lot of pock marks on the front of my car from small rocks and such, and the key scratch is really deep so I'm wondering if I will be able to fill and blend them nicely enough or should i just deal with the way i have it now. here's some pics of what i'm dealing with.
Hood pocks
Key scratch, it's deep
Hood pocks
Key scratch, it's deep
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Yikes...what girl did you piss off to cause that key mark? laugh.gif
As for the chips and scratch though....you can get chip/scratch paint to fill it in (make sure its the same color and code as your car) and lightly dab the paint in very thin coats over the marks.
You'll then really need to color sand and buff it with a good buffer in order to get it to blend fully. It wont look 100%, but it will look much better than whats there now. The color sanding is the most important step. If you dont do it properly, then it'll just look like you threw touch up paint all over the areas with marks.
The chips might end up coming back or bubbling since the paint is already lifted somewhat. For absolute best results...the best thing to do is to sand down the areas completely so it smooth, spray some primer, then re-spray with color and clear. Color sand & buff to perfection, and you're good to go! smile.gif
Good luck though...
As for the chips and scratch though....you can get chip/scratch paint to fill it in (make sure its the same color and code as your car) and lightly dab the paint in very thin coats over the marks.
You'll then really need to color sand and buff it with a good buffer in order to get it to blend fully. It wont look 100%, but it will look much better than whats there now. The color sanding is the most important step. If you dont do it properly, then it'll just look like you threw touch up paint all over the areas with marks.
The chips might end up coming back or bubbling since the paint is already lifted somewhat. For absolute best results...the best thing to do is to sand down the areas completely so it smooth, spray some primer, then re-spray with color and clear. Color sand & buff to perfection, and you're good to go! smile.gif
Good luck though...
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Yeah that happened while parked at school, people can be pricks. Anyways, want to go into a bit more detail on color sanding? You'll have to assume I don't know anything about paint because.....i don't haha. I just recently tried toying around with wet sanding.
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Here's a guide to color sanding.
Looking at the 3 dimensional nature of your nicks and scratch unless you sand everything smooth first you'll never make it look right by spraying.
You can try to build it up to almost level with the scratch repair pens and top it up to level plus some wit a clearcoat scratch repair pen and sanding it down and even. It's not going to be fast or easy or perfect but you might be able to get it to where it's hardly noticeable at least.
Metal flake paint is harder to fix than regular paint.
Looking at the 3 dimensional nature of your nicks and scratch unless you sand everything smooth first you'll never make it look right by spraying.
You can try to build it up to almost level with the scratch repair pens and top it up to level plus some wit a clearcoat scratch repair pen and sanding it down and even. It's not going to be fast or easy or perfect but you might be able to get it to where it's hardly noticeable at least.
Metal flake paint is harder to fix than regular paint.
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QUOTE(Visionz @ Jun 18 2009, 04:01 PM)
Yikes...what girl did you piss off to cause that key mark? laugh.gif
As for the chips and scratch though....you can get chip/scratch paint to fill it in (make sure its the same color and code as your car) and lightly dab the paint in very thin coats over the marks.
You'll then really need to color sand and buff it with a good buffer in order to get it to blend fully. It wont look 100%, but it will look much better than whats there now. The color sanding is the most important step. If you dont do it properly, then it'll just look like you threw touch up paint all over the areas with marks.
The chips might end up coming back or bubbling since the paint is already lifted somewhat. For absolute best results...the best thing to do is to sand down the areas completely so it smooth, spray some primer, then re-spray with color and clear. Color sand & buff to perfection, and you're good to go! smile.gif
Good luck though...
As for the chips and scratch though....you can get chip/scratch paint to fill it in (make sure its the same color and code as your car) and lightly dab the paint in very thin coats over the marks.
You'll then really need to color sand and buff it with a good buffer in order to get it to blend fully. It wont look 100%, but it will look much better than whats there now. The color sanding is the most important step. If you dont do it properly, then it'll just look like you threw touch up paint all over the areas with marks.
The chips might end up coming back or bubbling since the paint is already lifted somewhat. For absolute best results...the best thing to do is to sand down the areas completely so it smooth, spray some primer, then re-spray with color and clear. Color sand & buff to perfection, and you're good to go! smile.gif
Good luck though...
QUOTE(187sks @ Jun 18 2009, 07:12 PM)
Here's a guide to color sanding.
Looking at the 3 dimensional nature of your nicks and scratch unless you sand everything smooth first you'll never make it look right by spraying.
You can try to build it up to almost level with the scratch repair pens and top it up to level plus some wit a clearcoat scratch repair pen and sanding it down and even. It's not going to be fast or easy or perfect but you might be able to get it to where it's hardly noticeable at least.
Metal flake paint is harder to fix than regular paint.
Looking at the 3 dimensional nature of your nicks and scratch unless you sand everything smooth first you'll never make it look right by spraying.
You can try to build it up to almost level with the scratch repair pens and top it up to level plus some wit a clearcoat scratch repair pen and sanding it down and even. It's not going to be fast or easy or perfect but you might be able to get it to where it's hardly noticeable at least.
Metal flake paint is harder to fix than regular paint.
folow what they said and you should be golden. it's not hard to get it to look decent it just takes time and a lot of patience.