I discovered that there is some decent paint underneath my car's weird Oakland Raider inspired two tone ugly paint job. I was power washing the drive way and decided to turn the nozzle to the car and see what would happen. Well what happened was that a bunch of over spray and chunks of the charcoal flat black started coming off.
So I did what any retard with 500 grit wet sandpaper would do and went at it.
I discovered a better looking Delphin Gray on the fender.
Before doing some reading about proper wet sanding grit I decided to go after the trunk lid and found out that 500 wet/dry is way too aggressive. I have effectively sanded through to primer. Whoops.
But if you look on the left side of the roundel, you can see where I switched up to 1200 wet/dry and kept the original color.
That being said, what do you think the best way to go after the rest of the car? Continue by hand? Rotary buffing tool with compound? I will research the best way to go. It would be nice to have a halfway decent looking car in the driveway for my neighbors to look at.
Oh and here is a pic of the passenger door. You can see the Delphin fender I replaced in this pic for contrast.
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So I did what any retard with 500 grit wet sandpaper would do and went at it.
I discovered a better looking Delphin Gray on the fender.
Before doing some reading about proper wet sanding grit I decided to go after the trunk lid and found out that 500 wet/dry is way too aggressive. I have effectively sanded through to primer. Whoops.
But if you look on the left side of the roundel, you can see where I switched up to 1200 wet/dry and kept the original color.
That being said, what do you think the best way to go after the rest of the car? Continue by hand? Rotary buffing tool with compound? I will research the best way to go. It would be nice to have a halfway decent looking car in the driveway for my neighbors to look at.
Oh and here is a pic of the passenger door. You can see the Delphin fender I replaced in this pic for contrast.
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