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01svtL

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I am in the process of painting my mirrors body color. I had the side of the car covered. When I went to spray the mirror, there must have been somethin in the nozzle, b/c it sprayed everywhere. I now have little specs of paint all over my hood and fender. What can I use to get them off without removing the factory paint? There is a thin coat of wax (hopefully still there) there, so hopefully that should create some kind of barrier from drying for good?
 
01svtL said:
I am in the process of painting my mirrors body color. I had the side of the car covered. When I went to spray the mirror, there must have been somethin in the nozzle, b/c it sprayed everywhere. I now have little specs of paint all over my hood and fender. What can I use to get them off without removing the factory paint? There is a thin coat of wax (hopefully still there) there, so hopefully that should create some kind of barrier from drying for good?
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You won't know how well it's bonded until you try something.



I'd probably try clay, then a paint cleaner, then some abrasive polish, then a compound, then wetsanding (in that order). Or you could try lacquer thinner. Not sure if Mineral Spirits would work or not.
 
Btw, what is the correct sequence: paint, clear, wet sand then polish; or paint, wet sand, clear, wet sand, polish?
 
01svtL said:
Btw, what is the correct sequence: paint, clear, wet sand then polish; or paint, wet sand, clear, wet sand, polish?
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Better ask a painter to be sure, but AFAIK if you do the prep right there's no sanding between the basecoat and the clear. IF you prep before/after the primer properly, then any (presumbly fine, like ~320 grit or finer) residual prep issues/scratches oughta get filled in by the basecoat and then the clear.



But then I don't consider wetsanding to be at *all* mandatory. The paint's texture oughta match without needing to do that, at least in most cases. The idea is to match the factory orangepeel (unless you're doing a full repaint to better-than-oem standards).
 
What is a good pad/polish combo to use after wet-sanding. I had to sand in a few spots, and still didn't get everything out. I'm afraid I'm going to have to live with a few specs on my hood and fender for now. Luckily the paint is a perfect match, so they can only bee seen in certain lights/angles, but it still bothers the hell out of me.
 
01svtL said:
What is a good pad/polish combo to use after wet-sanding. I had to sand in a few spots, and still didn't get everything out. I'm afraid I'm going to have to live with a few specs on my hood and fender for now. Luckily the paint is a perfect match, so they can only bee seen in certain lights/angles, but it still bothers the hell out of me.
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Depends what grit the marks are from and what kind of polisher you're using, but generally a 4" cutting pad of some kind and M105/Ultimate Compound should do it (that combo will take it down to bare metal if you spend enough time on it ;) ). I've taken out 2K scratches with PC/4" orange (PFW worked too)/M105, on very hard clear, so it can be done. Sure did take a long time though.
 
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