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Old 04-25-2005, 11:01 PM
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I tried to touch up my paint in relatively high winds.

BAD IDEA.

Dried out the brush and it didn't lay on smoothly.

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Old 04-25-2005, 11:02 PM
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I tried to touch up my paint in relatively high winds.

BAD IDEA.

Dried out the brush and it didn't lay on smoothly.

:/
Will it handbuff out? I'm assuming just small touchups here.
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Old 04-25-2005, 11:41 PM
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Will it handbuff out? I'm assuming just small touchups here.
It's just paint, and fairly soft. I generally go over the whole car with a little OEM paint vial and fill in the little rock chips that I get from the highway and some kid in a Mercedez peeling out in front of me.
Basically I just want to keep it from rusting. not too worried about looks, because moving and from a distance it looks great. One day I'll get a paint job and none of that will matter.
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Old 04-26-2005, 10:09 AM
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So, my next thought is wet sanding the clearcoat completely off and replacing with a sprayed on clearcoat. I would start on the sunroof since I can replace that if it all goes south. Anyway, anybody have experience with wet sanding outside of doing the headlight lenses?
I tried an experiment of sorts along the lines of what you described on my passenger side quarter-garnish. Looks better than it did, but I'm not at all confident about trying this on a large area. First, I was fearful of sanding through the base coat, so I didn't get off enough of the old clearcoat, and what was left is again turning white. Also, I tried carefully building-up very light coats of clearcoat (with a spray can) and ended-up with a "dry-spray" finish that's not as shiny as the surrounding area. I've tried bringing-out a gloss with polishing compound, but can't tell much difference. Maybe with an electric buffer...?

All that said: I'm not well-versed in auto finishing and am pretty clumsy with a spray can. If you're accomplished in these areas, maybe you should start small and give it a try. Good luck.

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Another clearcoat question...kinda. My clearcoat is absolutely gone on many of my plastic body panels (sunroof, rear quarter garnish, top of rear bumper). No amount of waxing or polishing can hide it for more than a day or two. As a matter of fact, they usually worsen the situation. So, my next thought is wet sanding the clearcoat completely off and replacing with a sprayed on clearcoat. I would start on the sunroof since I can replace that if it all goes south. Anyway, anybody have experience with wet sanding outside of doing the headlight lenses? Is that too aggressive of an approach? Any other ideas for me? Here's my sunroof:

The white spots are where the clearcoat is flaking off. Those have all grown to about 2x their size, and there is now exposed black paint.

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Well, I went ahead and took the sunroof off and wet-sanded it. That didn't help anything. I could still see the lines around the white areas. So, since I had it off and sanded, I figured it was worth trying to paint. Did the black on day 1, wet sanded the black and applied claer coat on day 2, polished on day 2, saw some flaws still, re-wet sanded today and polished and Meguiar's 3-stepped it. Now it's looking good. My application technique was a bit off, so there is some "tiger striping" that shows what direction I painted in, but the gloss and lack of orange peel is FANTASTIC! I couldn't be happier with this as a temporary fix. Now i just gotta figure out if I want to get factory match spray paint and go at it again.

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