Need some paint repair advice....

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Need some paint repair advice....

Postby marco_1978_spyder » Tue Jan 09, 2007 4:53 pm

Here's the deal.

I removed the body side moulding from my red spyder last year.

Due to some sort of epoxy repair...the strips took some paint with it when it was removed.

the paint was removed down to a layer of grey primer.

I had a can of touch up paint made up and I've gone over the spots.

So they match and arent visible from a distance, but they are way noticeable up close.

If I put the trim back on, It will cover everything back up and I'll be fine.

I was wondering if I kept on adding coats of paint in the spots,
would it build up enough to match the level of the current paint.

I figure if I did that, and then wet sanded to make everything even...I could get the spots to blend in pretty well.


will this work?

I might take it to get some estimates to see if its more worth my time and effort to get it fixed at a good body shop.

Or...just put the moulding on and settle for its uglyness on my spyder.
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Postby rickswagon » Tue Jan 09, 2007 5:30 pm

you might try one of the paint touch up guys the use at the car lots some of them do pretty good work lot cheaper than body shops
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Postby cjbiagi » Tue Jan 09, 2007 7:55 pm

Marco, depending on the depth of the problem, it is probably going to take a lot of layers of coloer to build it up. Generally it could be built up with some heavier primer surfacer, but in all honesty it's probably never going to look perfect. If it were me, I'd reinstall the trim until I got ready to paint the entire car someday.
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