Sad day for my car

henryy370z

I was using sandpaper and burn my paint I'm using touch up paint to try to fix it ughh any suggestions

B&W_Evader

I bought an air brush to apply touch up paint to my Pearl White. Hid a couple of gouges on the bottom of the facia with it. One tube of touchup paint from the dealer should be able to do a couple of square inches using this method. When you're buying it, make sure to check whether they're supposed to give you a tube of clear with it. Mine didn't come with one but it says to finish with clear. Dealer says it's a 1 step paint and does not need clear. He also said that if it did, it would of come in the same pack as the pigmented paint.

I've used touchup paint in the past and have always been unhappy with the air bubbles or brush stroke marks left behind. The air brush makes it come out nice. Be careful with the overspray. For gouges, I just taped along the edge of the gouge so it all stayed inside the line. Left a paint ridge at the edge but at least the gouges are white instead of black now. You can probably feather the edges if you needed to cover a larger area.

Thayer & Chandler T86 Vega 1000 is the one I got. The Nissan touchup paint was perfect consistency with it. Tried thining it down to begin with but ended up using it full strength. Laquer thinner for cleanup.

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madwi

Sorry to ask but WTF are you doing with sandpaper? PLEASE tell me you werent trying to reduce orange peel...

DEpointfive0

Lol, I agree

What grit??? And if you BURNED your paint I assume you we're running like 2000-3000 and used an electric sander???

DEpointfive0

Oh, and can you post pics???
You might be able to salvage it

TreeSemdyZee

Ever heard of wet-sanding? NEVER dry sand.

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henryy370z

Wet sanding and remove scratch, I used touch up paint to make it better but still it's awful

RonRizz

I apply touch up in a few coats. Dab it on, and build it up above the paint surface. Then wet sand with 1500, or 2000 and a sanding block until smooth, finish with a buffer and some compound. Scratches and chips disappear.

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henryy370z

So I used touch up paint and sandpaper but it's still little rough and not even should I apply more sanding paper?! I'm kind of nervous or should I just leave it

B&W_Evader

If you're the only one who can tell or notice, leave it alone. Trying to make it perfect will always result in f-ing it up.

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kellyefields

without seeing the area and the damage. I would say you need to now reduce the sanding marks using compounds and a buffer. my suggestion is meguires 105 cut with a orange pad followed by meguires 205 with a white pad. That should bring back the shine then wax to protect it. take a look at the junkmans videos on youtube or on here they are a wealth of knowledge when doing something like this. I just wetsanded my car and am in the process of bring back the shine myself following these techniques. you can see what I am talking about on my build link below.;

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