I claybarred the car on the weekend. Nice and smooth now but the paint sucks. I have some flakey clear coat on the front fenders and hood. Im NOT repainting this anytime soon so whats my best option? I did a power polish on the trunk lid after the clay. It looked ok but still meh. Ive been thinking a1500 grit wet sand test on my hood (which needs serious dent repair, but fixable) and see how it looks. What are the majority doing with this issue? Just a strong cut and polish/wax?
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Brilliantrot oxidized paint, wet sand or?
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Brillantrot isn't clear coated.
But if you have like zinno that is cleared, I'd sand off all the clear (wet sand 1000-1500 grit) on the given panel and then either polish the color coat until it's acceptable to rattle can some new clear on.The first car I ever rode in was an e30
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Originally posted by TimKninja View PostCars that have been subject to shitty resprays might have clear on them .
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To the best of my knowledge my 84 318i in alpinweiss (146) was a single stage paint, yet despite zero evidence of any body or paint work, it has clear on it. I recently installed tweeters so took the PS door card off and low&behold, that door used to be silver.
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^Boooo. Silver E30s look sick.
OP. Do a couple of stages of rubbing compounds and polishes. Then hard shell wax it. Just some good elbow grease can remove serious oxidation.
But if you want try the rattle can clear. Mine is oxidized and stays shiny for maybe 2 weeks at a time in areas. The roof gets dull fairly quick.sigpic
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the only 2 stage e30 paints were mettalic colors. silver and bronzit. and a few others. diamond schwartz is probably the most common, with delphin.
many resprays are 2 stage.
so brilliantrot and zinnoberrot, all 1 stage.
Ive got them both on my car zinno 1 stage and zinno respray that loooks like shit. heres whats crazy one of my doors is single stage one is base clear.
the og orignal zinno like is on my hood and fenders is a straight white primer with a thin coat of red. It is extremely fragile and scratchable, thats why i have so many examples of its primer and layers.
Whereas the respray is rolling on black on red on a terrible clear that turns it all orange. overall extremely durable in its ugliness.Last edited by stamar; 08-19-2012, 02:03 AM.
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i can scrape the 1 stage off my hood with steel wool could write my name with a key its its so soft likee talc.
whereas it wont even dent just the messed up pealing clear on the drivers side rear quarter panel
and tthe lower stage under is dull.
I am eventually going to try to reclear that quarter panel when i can get the clear off.
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