500 Mrs Percymon's new ride

[nickinom]

It's pretty. No wonder your wife is very pleased.

 

[PAUL999s]

Very nice looking car that.
Good job on the detailing too.

 

[Baglady1990]

Love it! Beautiful paintwork.. I managed a mirror shine with a new spray job then I buffed the hell out of her with mcguires 3 in 1 now the dirt doesn’t even stick!

 

[percymon]

Thanks for the comments

 

[d4zzl3r]

Quick question, when you have stone chips, you use touch-up paint, then sand it? Doesn't it scratch the paint?

 

[percymon]

Yes, add colour to the chip, then another layer of colour, then clear. Ideally 24 hours between each. Wait 5-7 days then sand with 2000/3000 grit wet n dry until level with surrounding area. Then polish with suitable compound to remove the wet sanding marks, easy with a rotary or DA polisher but it can be done by hand using something like farecla G3 or similar.

 

[PAUL999s]

Credit to you percymon
It just looks so scary though when a tiny stone chip turns into a 30mm diameter scratchy patch.
I usually just fill the chips in with paint on a toothpick to make them less obvious

 

[percymon]

Credit to you percymon
It just looks so scary though when a tiny stone chip turns into a 30mm diameter scratchy patch.
I usually just fill the chips in with paint on a toothpick to make them less obvious

Yes I used the toothpick rather than the supplied brush, albeit the clear lacquer doesn’t run so much on the toothpick as the colour.

When faced with 70+ stone chips it’s not really too scary to wet sand them, it would have been a respray or a replacement bonnet if the chip filling hadn’t worked reasonably well

 

[d4zzl3r]

I've done any any paint work, too scary. But i'd love to learn.

 

[d4zzl3r]

Then polish with suitable compound

Whats 'compound' please?

 

[percymon]

Polish by another name but many people think polish is the last product applied

Compound/polish is the product used to remove swirls, scratches/ sanding marks, depends on paint hardness and level of ‘correction’ needed /allowed by the paint layer thickness. Menzerna are a reputable polish company, their 2200 grade compound will remove sanding marks and then 3800/4000 grade refines the f8nish and adds gloss and colour depth.

Many ‘all in one’ polishes will also remove wet sanding marks with time.

The problem is the industries confusing message ref polishes and final coatings/waxes. Auto Glym is a market leader and yet their super resin polish isn’t that great a polish, yet also isn’t that great a final layer. Admittedly they are no longer reliant on just their extra gloss protection product as the final layer, since they added high definition wax and other products in the last5 years. But for many buyers in Halfords SRP was seem as a good product for hand application as a paint cleaner and protection.