How screwed is my paint ?!?

[Newman]

I think I'm going to get a porter cable as I can afford the flex and some stuff and slowly do it my self . I wanna learn how and save what I can. I am not going to try the sanding, but will try everything else to get by until I get a house and can have room to do it in a garage.

 

[superslow86]

^Good luck. just take your time, do lots of research and again, take your time. Start with a small area and once you acquire the end results you desire, do the whole car with that combo. Some areas may need a little more aggressive approach, others, maybe not so much. I MAY have a porter cable for sale. Send me a PM if interested. I got it last christmas and have been wanting to jump up to a Flex.

 

[Grabber]

Based on the pictures, I have corrected something that was in just as bad of a condition as your car is.

You will need to wetsand certain spots, and do a full 5 step correction at least 2 times.

I would use Megs. 105 and 205 to start, then use another aggressive polish. Each panel is going to take at least 10-20 minutes of work per stage of polishing.

To give you an idea.

Before:

After:

Good Luck OP.

 

[Seer]

Looks good grabber but thats definitely not clear coat failure in your befores.

I feel the OP should be able to get his clear back to about 85% without sanding down most of the remaining uv protection.

 

[Grabber]

Looks good grabber but thats definitely not clear coat failure in your befores.

I feel the OP should be able to get his clear back to about 85% without sanding down most of the remaining uv protection.

Thanks man.

There were quite a few parts of this car that were.

The car is an 89 Porsche, and has been washed only through a Automated Car-wash, and has sat outside most of it's life. We actually had to cut into the remaining clearcoat a decent amount in order to correct this.

He has a decent shot at correcting most of his paint, but as you already mentioned, it will not be 100%. If he is lucky, he can get rid of most of the imperfections and bring a small amount of the original shine back, but, that is as far as I think it will go.

 

[Newman]

I was looking at my DD Honda accord, and it's rough looks way worse. I'm going to try a few spots on that car first . And just keep a good coat of wax on the mustang until I get confident enough using the accord as a guinea pig.

 

[Newman]

Edit : double post .

 

[HellsBells]

Vinyl wrap wouldn't be a bad option at this point either!

 

[Seer]

Vinyl wrap wouldn't be a bad option at this point either!

Maintenance is easier

 

[HellsBells]

Maintenance is easier

When you know what you're doing! I can't get the swirls off my paint no matter how I try

 

[Seer]

When you know what you're doing! I can't get the swirls off my paint no matter how I try

I meant the vinyl.

As far as swirls go, its probably a combination of your technique, and materials.

If you go cheap, you'll get cheap results. If you go expensive and have a bad technique, you'll get bad results.

 

[HellsBells]

I'm more impatient than anything so that's probably why.

I like vinyl because it covers paint chips and if it gets messed up, you tear it off and apply a new one! I had this idea of putting on 3 wraps of vinyl on my car on top of each other and then I could just peel them as I go and look like I have new paint (yes I know this wouldn't work out well in practice).

 

[Black_GT]

Goodluck Newman! Im in the same boat as you. Black paint sucks during the day (all the imperfections come out) but looks awesome at night!

 

[Newman]

Got my stuff in yesterday, gonna practice on the Honda in a few places today . See what happens .

 

[Pardue]

I look forward to seeing the results.

 

[Newman]

Damn this is gonna take alot of practice

 

[superslow86]

Slow and steady. Try moving about an inch a second. It also depends on how agressive of a polish/compound your are using.

 

[Fuerte]

Damn this is gonna take alot of practice

I had to practice on my brothers car first. Technique is the most important part of doing it

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[Seer]

Damn this is gonna take alot of practice

Work in 2'x2' areas, going horizontally first, back and forth (kind've like an S pattern), then vertically, about 3 passes each way. Moving about 1" per second, until you are on your final 2-3 passes, then you can kick the speed up a little bit (your movement) to about 2-3" per second, while still maintaining enough pressure on the machine to right when you hear the motor bog ever so slightly (about 10lbs)

Watch this video

 

[Newman]

It's seems like it bogs down at any speed if I put hardly any pressure at all.