New Paint on 1991 Corsica...Question

78_Caprice · 01-08-05, 06:09

Well I just got back my 1991 Corsica LT from the body shop turned out great. I took it in for a small little bubble on the drivers side door. They did an amazing job. Except for one little thing they had a bit of black overspray on the white because I also had new door handles put on, so I went back and told them so I watched them do it now they used some M600 product to remove the overspray and it did it very well, now the overspray was on the new paint!.

So when I got home I looked over the whole car real good and I found just a few specs of black overspray, so I thought to myself I don't really feel like going back there and bugging them so I used my bottle of Perfect-It lll Rubbing compound and went at it myself now on the door itself I was very agressive because it was very hard to remove, now remember it was on the new paint.

Now I'm really worried if my paint will cure good, seeing as how I touched new paint. Like will it be fine or would I have caused some problems now in the long run? Because I know your not suppose to screw around with new paint until after 3 months or so. Would I have thinned the Clear Coat down a lot now?

78_Caprice · 01-08-05, 08:33

bump.

Aurora40 · 01-08-05, 09:02

I don't think it would have screwed the clearcoat up. 3M makes paintshop safe products. It might have been better to use clay or something, though, but I don't know. How long had it been before you did this? I think within 24 hours the paint really hardens up a lot, though I'm no paint expert.

Really, though, you already did it. You can't undo it.

Let's see some picts of the paint job!

Accumulator · 01-09-05, 10:47

There's no problem using PI-III RC on relatively fresh paint. I've done it plenty of times. The only way it'll cause a problem is if you use it while the paint is still *so* fresh that the RC mars it up. You might ant to check to see if you need to follow up with a milder product (I always do).

Is such a thing happens again I'd use clay instead of the RC.

Your clear should be fine as long as the painter didn't skimp on it. I've hit fresh clear with the PI-III RC and a rotary without problems and I was being pretty aggressive, far more so that I think you were by hand.