i have just bought a spoiler that isnt in my colour so am going to sand it and spray it but i dont know how much paint im going to need, i intend on doing it with cans. cheers

What colour is it now its been rubbed down?

I'd have thought one can would be enough.

Depends upon the number of coats needed / wanted.

It took me about 1 and a half cans of paint to do mine

ive got one can, spent 5 hours sanding it yesterday. not fun or easy!

Buy 1 more can, as it does normally take around a can and half for like 3 decent coats

I used about 3/4 of a can for a mk2 sporting spoiler, that was with 3 good coats. Then used about the same again from a can of laquer...

you dont want to be applying it too thickly anyway, anymore than a can is overkill imo.

EDIT: how big are your cans?

Yeh what tris said. You don't want to apply too many coats also, Don't want it too layered up

only used 300ml cans

not 500ml

EDIT: this was on a saxo standard spoiler for my mate

Puntodriver1991 said:

only used 300ml cans

not 500ml

EDIT: this was on a saxo standard spoiler for my mate

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Hope you did it in the wrong colour completely

Haha

well kinda did,

his car is the typical saxo blue, but he wanted it gloss back , to tie in with rear tinted lights and black bump strips

okay so far i have sanded it down, 5 hours! got it down to the white all over. then ive used a whole 500ml can of primer and tonight i am going to spray it with a 400ml can. i have a 400ml can of lacqer too.

let me know how this goes... i know matching paint colours in a pain in the arse...

All done, I didnt need all the paint in the end, and it hasn't come up too bad. The paint colour match is pretty poor tho, its much darker than the car but ive got it fitted ended up using no more nails flexible. seems to be stuck okay. will get some pics up tomorrow.