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First a background on vehicle and paint:
It is a 2001 Camaro SS in my sig, I have owned it since new. It had pretty nasty rock chips on the hood and nose due to daily driving since new. My wife decided to have the nose and hood repainted, since I was going through a medical condition and I couldn't do it. Low and behold she had the whole car repainted from GM black to a color resembling the Chrysler metallic black, it looks nice and I love it. Although the paint shop could have done a better job spraying the paint, seems like a rush job (major masking going on, and not good either). It has OEM like orange peel, but in some places it had terrible overspray.
So I decided to color sand it and make it look nice, since she sis this for me.
So I went out in search of the mythical M105 at my local parts store. They only thing I found was The Fine Cut glaze, so I decided to test out the color-sanding process.
Here are the steps I followed (hand process):
1. Wash area to color sand with Gold Class wash, rinse with water and dry
2. In a seperate bucket, mixed Gold Class wash with water and wiped area to work on.
3. Soaked 2000 grit sand paper, and sanded area with light hand touch, squegee-ing surface to verify results.
4. Once surface was "free" from orange peel, I applied the Fine Cut with a foam applicator, wiped clean with terry clotch towel.
5. Used two coats of Gold Class polish.
Now midn you, I am not looking for show winning results here, and I don't mind some orange peel, I just want to make it not look like a crappy paint job on my SS.
Here are my results.
As you can see, after polishing, I have light scrathes. Similar to when someone sits on your car with jeans and rubbs their bottom all over it and get's fine scratches on it.
The top portion of the image, with the overhead flouresent light reflection is the as sprayed finish. My results are on the bottom side. It has a more detailed reflection now, but shows a haze on it. Maybe I need finer sanding then 2000 grit?
Here is an image of the as sprayed finish, notice the orange peel. Not bad really, I just wish all of it was like this.
Notice the improved reflection with my results
This one looks amazing, but knowing it has a haze and fine scratches makes it a bitter sweet result.
I might breakdown and order the mythical M105 and some 2500 and 3000 grit.
It is a 2001 Camaro SS in my sig, I have owned it since new. It had pretty nasty rock chips on the hood and nose due to daily driving since new. My wife decided to have the nose and hood repainted, since I was going through a medical condition and I couldn't do it. Low and behold she had the whole car repainted from GM black to a color resembling the Chrysler metallic black, it looks nice and I love it. Although the paint shop could have done a better job spraying the paint, seems like a rush job (major masking going on, and not good either). It has OEM like orange peel, but in some places it had terrible overspray.
So I decided to color sand it and make it look nice, since she sis this for me.So I went out in search of the mythical M105 at my local parts store. They only thing I found was The Fine Cut glaze, so I decided to test out the color-sanding process.
Here are the steps I followed (hand process):
1. Wash area to color sand with Gold Class wash, rinse with water and dry
2. In a seperate bucket, mixed Gold Class wash with water and wiped area to work on.
3. Soaked 2000 grit sand paper, and sanded area with light hand touch, squegee-ing surface to verify results.
4. Once surface was "free" from orange peel, I applied the Fine Cut with a foam applicator, wiped clean with terry clotch towel.
5. Used two coats of Gold Class polish.
Now midn you, I am not looking for show winning results here, and I don't mind some orange peel, I just want to make it not look like a crappy paint job on my SS.
Here are my results.
As you can see, after polishing, I have light scrathes. Similar to when someone sits on your car with jeans and rubbs their bottom all over it and get's fine scratches on it.
The top portion of the image, with the overhead flouresent light reflection is the as sprayed finish. My results are on the bottom side. It has a more detailed reflection now, but shows a haze on it. Maybe I need finer sanding then 2000 grit?
Here is an image of the as sprayed finish, notice the orange peel. Not bad really, I just wish all of it was like this.
Notice the improved reflection with my results
This one looks amazing, but knowing it has a haze and fine scratches makes it a bitter sweet result.
I might breakdown and order the mythical M105 and some 2500 and 3000 grit.
BTW: that Chevy still slow but looks good now j/k
We haven't raced much, but I hope next season we can. email us!
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