Don
01-18-2005, 02:39 PM
...from the car hospital. There is good news and bad news. The good news is that I took it to an excellent shop, and you can`t tell anything ever happened to the car. I just saw it today in the paint booth, still mostly disassembled and all the seams from the new parts look factory.
Just to clarify things to the uninitiated, the best way to paint a car is with everything removed (trim, handles etc), that way there are no edges to peel after time. In this case removal beats masking off.
The finish is in the raw stage (no sanding or buffing done yet) and there is very little orange peel even at this point.
The bad news??
I took it to an excellent shop and the repaired areas look better than the rest of the car. The base (color) coat was applied slightly thicker and more evenly than the factory paint, which means the color is going to be slightly richer.
I took a few pics in the paint booth, but the camera and the computer aren`t talking to each other at the moment.
Just to clarify things to the uninitiated, the best way to paint a car is with everything removed (trim, handles etc), that way there are no edges to peel after time. In this case removal beats masking off.
The finish is in the raw stage (no sanding or buffing done yet) and there is very little orange peel even at this point.
The bad news??
I took it to an excellent shop and the repaired areas look better than the rest of the car. The base (color) coat was applied slightly thicker and more evenly than the factory paint, which means the color is going to be slightly richer.
I took a few pics in the paint booth, but the camera and the computer aren`t talking to each other at the moment.