New paint, have a few questions

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PursuitSE

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I had the front end of my car resprayed in the begining of the week. Now the paint has some orange peal at some place and also has a few dust dots in it.

My car is a 2005 black Pontiac G5 which is still looking as good as a new one.



Here my question...

I have the following in hand :

PC7424

Meg's Maroon pad, yellow pad and tan pad.

Meg's #83

Meg's #80

Meg's ScratchX

and other waxes...



With the few thing I got, can I risk wet sending my car ?? Am I going to be able to get the paint to shine again. I don't want to destroy my brand new paint.



Also, how long should I want to wax this new paint ?

Can I use a glaze on it ?



I am going to clay, polish and wax the rest of the car but the new paint tomorrow and I would like my question answered before I beging.



If it's not worth trying with my PC on my new paint, I going to have my cousin to work on it with his Makita.



Thanks for the replies guys!
 
I think you're supposed to wait 3 months or something like that. You can use 3MIHG, it's made for fresh paint, you can apply it as much as you like. That's what little help I can offer, lol.
 
PursuitSE said:
I had the front end of my car resprayed in the begining of the week. Now the paint has some orange peal at some place and also has a few dust dots in it...
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Too bad the painter didn't take care of those issues for you. I'd rather put him on the spot- fix it in order to get paid.





With the few thing I got, can I risk wet sending my car ?? Am I going to be able to get the paint to shine again. I don't want to destroy my brand new paint.
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Depends how much paint he put on..is there extra you can afford to sand off :nixweiss That's another reason to make *him* fix it. But yeah, you can wetsand fresh paint, he shoulda already done that as it shoudn't have had those issues when you picked it up.



As for getting the sanding scratches out with a PC, you can do it if you use *good*/uniform paper like Meguiar's/Nikken in a suitbly fine grit (no coarser than 2000). I've removed 2K Meguiar's scratches from factory Audi clear *by hand*, so it can be done...might take a long time though. By PC, I'd sure use 4" pads.



Also, how long should I want to wax this new paint ?
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90-120 days. If you do it too soon you'll interfere with the outgassing and it'll never attain max potential hardness.



Can I use a glaze on it ?



Yeah. 3M IHG, Meg's #3/#5/#7/#81/Deep Crystal Step #2.



Note that the new paint might be very soft for the first few weeks or so.
 
Thanks for this answer Accumulator.

Well, the painter didn't take care of the issues me because my brother actually did it for me, for free. I only had to pay for the paint and furniture. He is a painter, not a polisher.

I don't remember how many coat of paint he did, but I know for sure that there is 3 coats of clear on top of it.

The paint defects aren't very noticable, a "normal" person wouldn't bother, but I would like it to be almost perfect.



I think that I'll just clay, polish via PC and wax the car tomorrow, but not the new paint.

I'll wait a couple of weeks, then I will have my cousin who does polishing to look at my paint. I don't feel comfortable enough with wet sanding to do it myself. Not at this point at least.

I finally did my interior today since I didn't get a good answer to my question yesterday.



thanks again.
 
PursuitSE- Glad to be of help. I understand about both the politics of having your brother do the work and about flaws that noboby else would notice. I sometimes find that after a while "terrible flaws" don't bother me quite as much...sorta surprising considering how I am about this stuff, but it does happen.



Oh, and :xyxthumbs for being leery of the wetsanding. Better to be overly cautious than to wish you had that way-back-machine after you do an oops.



David Fermani- Yeah, I :think: about this too. What does/doesn't intefere with outgassing and how/why :nixweiss "My stuff is OK, just take my word for it" and all the arguments about why the paint manufacturers might say something that could be incorrect...I've heard it all and I still don't know what to believe so I err on the side of caution and recommend that others do the same.



One thing I know for certain from first-hand experience is how (baked) paint continues to harden for quite a long time. With that being the only solid *fact*, everything else is, to me, a guess and a gamble...a guess no matter *how* educated it may be, and a gamble not worth taking in *my* situation.



Hey, the test would be simple...baked S-H paint waxed/sealed/not and tested with various abrasives over a period of four months. I, however, have better things to do ;)
 
I spent my afternoon shining my car and here is the result.

I didn't touch the new paint.

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Process :

wash with NXT

clayed with Meg's blue clay using Last Touch for lube

#83 via PC with Meg's yellow pad on some scrached areas

#80 via PC with Meg's yellow pad

#21 via PC with Meg's tan pad

#26 by hand for the final wet look



Whells wells and tires weren't dressed because it rained after I was done.

Was a long week-end working on my car, but it's well worth it.
 
Sure looks nice :xyxthumbs



That #80 probably won't be *too* strong for the fresh paint, at least after a little while.
 
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