I was going to send my other Blue Tc with the 4 week old paint job to have it color sanded and buffed. I called a place and they said the car needs to have a minimum of 3 coats of clear to buff it correctly. I called the guy who painted it, and he told me he put two coats of clear on it.
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t97/b...df7206.jpg
Is that enough clear to do a color sand?
If not, do I just buff it and call it a day?
Hmm, thought someone would have replied to this by now.
Three+ coats is best to colorsand/buff to perfection. If the two coats laid down pretty slick, you might be ok to colorsand and buff. The worry is making sure there's enough clear thick enough that after buffing, the paint won't want to lift later down the road (minimum mil thickness).
You can talk this over with your buffer and see what he thinks.. you wouldn't get that shiny flat perfection, but sanding with 2000 to easy off some of the texture and then buffing out might be ok.
Wouldn't doing a clay bar rub, then using something like Meguairs 205 polishing compound, with a final coat of Meguairs #26 give you the same results without the danger of thinning down your clear coats?
Ron
LimaTee Wrote:Wouldn't doing a clay bar rub, then using something like Meguairs 205 polishing compound, with a final coat of Meguairs #26 give you the same results without the danger of thinning down your clear coats?
Ron
no. you have to remove material to make the orange peel go away and the paint job look flat. clay bar does not do that, nor does polish.
Maybe I should have guessed that you had orange peel, but your post didn't mention it.
I imagined that you had build-up that needed to be cleaned off so the paint would be smooth, slick, & shiny again.
Ron
You can do it stage by stage with a compound and work your way to the glass look, but takes a lot of time and you have to know what you are doing , to fast with the buffer and you can burn the clear . ....... What is wrong with the paint job ????? you get what you pay for ..... was it a 1000 dollar job or a 5000 dollar job , take it back and have them fix it , for a shop to color sand and buff is too much . just my dollars worth .......D.Wilder