My 2 really needed it.
I got quotes from various people, a blow over back to red would be £500 and a complete professional job would be £1000. I don't know about the rest of you people but I'm not in the best job I've ever had so I set about doing this for myself. I researched for months on different do's and don't on painting your car.
I originally thought I'd be okay just doing it with spray cans but watching videos online it didn't look that hard doing it with a compressor. I bought a compressor kit from eBay £78 nearly new from Parkside, 9bar max & 26litre tank. Came with paint gun, impact gun and other bits I don't think I'll be using. Then I set about finding a sufficient car port to house my car. £41 for a 9x6 commercial Surf & Turf tent with all 6 sides, in good condition too. So now I'm thinking "this is it, I'm actually gonna do this" but where do I find paint from and what colour? I put up a thread asking what colour people would do there 2 if they had the choice. Someone clearly pointed out that if the base was red it is only logical that it should be red as it would look odd if the outside was a different colour to under the hood/frunk. So Red it is but how boring...I started sanding it down anyway.
Approx £56 on wet and dry sanding paper from Halfords.
I was under the impression I only had to sand down the really bad bits and score the rest of the lacquer so the primer could sit on it.
Lucky no filler needed as I've not bumped it anywhere. But then someone told me I had to remove ALL lacquer for the new paint to sit on. (I was still driving it like this, oh the looks you get)
Final stage of sanding with a little bit of help.
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The car port.
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To be continued.
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) This however did not deter me from having this beautiful colour, i wanted it and thats that.
So yes stop i did before i wasted my paint.
