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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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Robert Is Bush in jail yet? (Looks frantically at watch, then back up) How about now? Now? Come onnnnnn...... Someone freeze me until January, this wait is killing me. Update: 09 January, and still not in jail! Wassup?? 1992 Teal LS-L - 160k (Now new and improved with perfect paint!) |
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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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Bet you get more use out of the AWD though. Jonathan
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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. dcb |
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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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