Why do people do this!?

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My hood is flat black, spraypaint job I think. Previous owners friend did it for some obscure reason. Decided to try wetsanding down to the original paint under it today, and got some results, but it wasn't worth it. Spray job was so uneven that I'd be hitting red while still trying to get through a thick patch of black in the middle of that spot. Way too time consuming to get it even. Paint was completely fine under it! I'll just respray it...



Look at my beautiful hood

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Started sanding, they even sprayed over the emblem

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After polishing with HT xtreme cut and OP on this spot

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I want red!
 
Wetsanding like that never works, besides the paint not being equal thickness, you can never be completely consistent in your sanding. If their paint job is really crap and a lot softer than the base, you could keep doing what you're doing, sanding it thin an then compounding...worth a shot. Were you using a sanding block?
 
Yeah, that's the new "fad" to have a black hood on a different colored car. I think they do it to look like carbon fiber. Either way, it's ridiculous. Either do it right, or don't do it at all in my book.
 
hmm, i dunno why people do that, i don't think ive ever even seen something like that since my my high school days. try anything you can to attempt to save the cost of a respray, hell wipe down sections at a time with lacquer thinner if you have to, it's got to get better because it can't get no worse.
 
Yea I was using a block, and theres no point in continuing really. My friend and I are spraying my bumper and trim anyways, and the hood as well. I just wanted to see if it was salvagable.
 
i would strip/sand off all the black....even if you thin the red paint underneath...the black will act as a basecoat and tint the red you put on top...
 
I remember a thread here from a long time ago that dealt with either a bad respray or a bad clearcoat job(one put on by the previous owner out of a spraycan I believe)



As I remember it was a Mustang.. you may be able to find it searching 'Mustang' and 'clearcoat' and maybe 'failure'



I'm pretty sure plastic razorblades and some kind of solvent was used, and the end results were much better. I'd say try and take as much of the black off as you can, at the worst you'll come out of the experience short a few dollars but with a better knowledge of how paint works, and what it takes to harm it. I can definitely see why wetsanding wouldn't work though, at least you found out you had some good paint under there!
 
"Yeah, that's the new "fad""



LOL, my 69 Mach 1 had a flat black hood from Ford, and some WWII fighters had blacked out noses to cut down on glare. Guess that fad's been around a while.



I like the look on the right car.
 
It looks so bad when people do stuff like that. I was just at Mc Donald's and saw an old green honda that had 1??? wheel well spray painted yellow. I was impressed with your progress, though. Nice work.
 
JDookie said:
Yeah, that's the new "fad" to have a black hood on a different colored car. I think they do it to look like carbon fiber. Either way, it's ridiculous. Either do it right, or don't do it at all in my book.
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My thoughts exactly!
 
Soak a portion with the strongest (un-cut) laquer thinner on a rag and see how much comes off. Then you can gauge how easy or hard it will be to tackle. Hopefully the red paint below is saveable. Good luck. It looks like the repaint is pretty thin.
 
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