WS6Fury
02-10-2003, 12:54 PM
Just picked up my new daily beater, a 99 Jetta VR6 with the metallic midnight blue color. Looks really good, but the car was repainted, and the hood is the worst part of the car. It is severely orange peeled, and in some areas it looks as though they just briefly touched the paint with a clear coat, almost feels like and looks like overspray, but it is not.
I guess I could wet sand it down using something in the realms of 3000 grit paper, but I am a little weary of doing that on MY car, heh. Thinking on finding a fin cut 1500 grit compound and then use 3M`s swirl mark remover to polish everything up. Dunno, need some good advice on getting the paint nice and smooth, and not look like it was repainted as much as possible, but without destroying the clear coat.
What should I do?
Almost forgot, I`d be doing this all by hand. There are a crap load of swirl marks, how should I remove these as well?
Also, unfortunately I`m at work, so I can`t fool around on the internet too much researching different products, if you all could, please post up websites of the recommended products where I could purchase from. This way I won`t get in trouble! :rolleyes:
Thanks all:D
I guess I could wet sand it down using something in the realms of 3000 grit paper, but I am a little weary of doing that on MY car, heh. Thinking on finding a fin cut 1500 grit compound and then use 3M`s swirl mark remover to polish everything up. Dunno, need some good advice on getting the paint nice and smooth, and not look like it was repainted as much as possible, but without destroying the clear coat.
What should I do?
Almost forgot, I`d be doing this all by hand. There are a crap load of swirl marks, how should I remove these as well?
Also, unfortunately I`m at work, so I can`t fool around on the internet too much researching different products, if you all could, please post up websites of the recommended products where I could purchase from. This way I won`t get in trouble! :rolleyes:
Thanks all:D