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Matt M, PA · 09-06-04, 08:45

Clearcoat sanding and heavy compounding ARE NOT for the weak for heart. If you realize that the entire amount of paint on your car...including primer, color and clear...is something like 5 mils....you can see why it would be easy to cut through. (A good plastic trash bag is 2 mils.)

Clear coat failure can look a few different ways. Once way is that it will look like it has lots of cobweb looking like scratches. It also can peel off like old skin.

I would strongly recommended NOT wetsanding your car...if you rally want it done...take it to a good body shop. Also, if you are looking to sand out orange peel...forget it. You could take off more paint than is safe to do.

The failure will not happen overnight...it could take weeks or months.

09-06-04, 08:45	#4 (permalink)
Matt M, PA Registered User Matt M, PA is offline Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 446	Clearcoat sanding and heavy compounding ARE NOT for the weak for heart. If you realize that the entire amount of paint on your car...including primer, color and clear...is something like 5 mils....you can see why it would be easy to cut through. (A good plastic trash bag is 2 mils.) Clear coat failure can look a few different ways. Once way is that it will look like it has lots of cobweb looking like scratches. It also can peel off like old skin. I would strongly recommended NOT wetsanding your car...if you rally want it done...take it to a good body shop. Also, if you are looking to sand out orange peel...forget it. You could take off more paint than is safe to do. The failure will not happen overnight...it could take weeks or months.