freshly painted car &wetsanding-polishing question

[pampos]

The Civic just been resprayed with some nice shine layers of clear coat but with some orange peel on it..
The painter told me that he will wet sand it tomorrow with 3M 1500 sandpaper and he will use compound to polish it...
1)Is that a good idea for a freshly painted car??
2)If it is not a good idea,what possible problems may cause to clear??(i told to the painter not to do it now but i cannot change his mind)
3)Of course i will need to polish it with a finer polish to remove the holograms and light swirls from compounding,and wax the car...Does it matter what kind of wax i am going to use??

Thanks

[Mike Phillips]

Re: freshly painted car &wetsanding-polishing question

What your painter is going to do is the "basic" method of sanding and cutting fresh paint.

There are better ways and better products but it doesn't sound like you're going to have the time or the ability to get him to learn a new system.

If he finishes with 1500 grit he's going to have to use a real aggressive compound to remove the sanding marks.

In the end you'll likely have tracers and swirls to remove. Tracers are real difficult to remove but you can probably re-polish the paint and remove the swirls.

Tracers are random, deeper scratches left in the paint due to larger particle size of the abrasives used to make the paper and/or un-even pressure, and/or any kind of dirt or abrasive particle that gets trapped between the paper and your car's paint.

It's a common problem, at our advanced classes we show people how to flush the surface with a fresh supply of water to keep the sanding area clean and we also show how to use our Nikken brand 'Finishing Papers" which use Unigrit Technology which helps to reduce tracers.

Best of luck to you...

[pampos]

Re: freshly painted car &wetsanding-polishing question

Thanks Mike very very much.
As you realized it is time to do some advanced classes in Cyprus : )
Is it OK to apply any LSP/Glazes after polishing or i have to wait some days/weeks??
Thanks once again.

[Mike Phillips]

Re: freshly painted car &wetsanding-polishing question

When working on fresh paint, you can safely apply ANY of our pure polishes including our Deep Crystal Polish in our Consumer Line and they will have no negative effect on the paint curing and outgassing process.

That would be,

M03 Machine Glaze
M05 New Car Glaze
M07 Show Car Glaze
M81 Hand Polish
Deep Crystal Polish

Check out this article as it explains it all in detail...

Paint Needs to Breathe

[pampos]

Re: freshly painted car &wetsanding-polishing question

When working on fresh paint, you can safely apply ANY of our pure polishes including our Deep Crystal Polish in our Consumer Line and they will have no negative effect on the paint curing and outgassing process.

That would be,

M03 Machine Glaze
M05 New Car Glaze
M07 Show Car Glaze
M81 Hand Polish
Deep Crystal Polish

Check out this article as it explains it all in detail...

Paint Needs to Breathe

He will remove the sanding mark with an unknown local combound...Is it OK to use Deep Crystal paint cleaner,then Deep crystal polish and then some #7 for extra shine??

[Mike Phillips]

Re: freshly painted car &wetsanding-polishing question

He will remove the sanding mark with an unknown local combound...Is it OK to use Deep Crystal paint cleaner,then Deep crystal polish and then some #7 for extra shine??

Remind us again what tools, pads and products you have?

What you really want to do is to machine polish with a cleaner/polish like M80 with a DA Polisher and a W-8006 polishing pad or something similar.

This is assuming your painter doesn't finish with a DA Polisher.

[pampos]

Re: freshly painted car &wetsanding-polishing question

Remind us again what tools, pads and products you have?

What you really want to do is to machine polish with a cleaner/polish like M80 with a DA Polisher and a W-8006 polishing pad or something similar.

This is assuming your painter doesn't finish with a DA Polisher.

He will not finish with a DA but he will do one step compounding to remove the sanding marks.
I have know (Meguiar's products) #80, #83, #7, Deep Crystal Polish, Deep Crystal cleaner, 8006 polishing pads,Gold class liquid wax, NXT 2.O wax.I have also some others brand products but i don't know if it is OK to post them.I will polish it with a DA polisher.

[Mike Phillips]

Re: freshly painted car &wetsanding-polishing question

If you're lucky, and his swirls are not too deep, then either the M80 or the M83 should remove the swirls he leaves in the paint.

Be sure to read through this before starting...

Tips & Techniques for using the G110, G100, G220 and the PC Dual Action Polisher
(These are all similar tools)

[pampos]

Re: freshly painted car &wetsanding-polishing question

If you're lucky, and his swirls are not too deep, then either the M80 or the M83 should remove the swirls he leaves in the paint.

Be sure to read through this before starting...

Tips & Techniques for using the G110, G100, G220 and the PC Dual Action Polisher
(These are all similar tools)

Thanks Mike
I will let you know today with some pictures
As write above,do you suggest me to use only #80 and#83??
What about #7??
Also he sprayed by accident the window.How can i safe remove the sprayed paint??Claybar it' will do the job??