Dark Halo Effect Surrounding Touchup Repair

[red13]

Hi, I recently tried to touchup a chip on my car`s paint. It is mettallic silver color. I sanded a small section around the chip area and used a mini hobby style spray gun to apply the paint. I have not sprayed on any clearcoat on the repair area yet. The surrounding area around the chip is darker. A halo kind of effect. It sticks out like a sore thumb. I think this is caused by slight overspray of the paint on the clearcoat of the non-sanded surround area, I am not sure.



Is this fixable by spraying clearcoat a bit further out over the repair or do I have to redo the repair and sand out the repair area further out to get a better blending of the color by feathering paint?

Thanks.

[Setec Astronomy]

What grit sandpaper did you use?

[red13]

2000 grit sandpaper, wetsanded it.

[Setec Astronomy]

Do you have a picture? It could be the way the flake settled when you sprayed...or you could have sanded through the clear....

[Cyclopsblown34]

With metallic any repair is obvious. The metallic flakes don`t lay in the same orientation and look like a different color all together. To make it look a little closer, I would suggest the following steps.

Sand the entire panel to any hard breaks in the body line so hide the blend with 1200 grit

Paint the entire panel and clear it.



If you repair any section of the panel and try to spot clear, there will more than likely be a ring where the old clear and the new clear come together. I have buddies of mine who are professional painters and can be successful with spot repairs but they told me to use this method. The only other option is to sand the entire panel, repair the spot and clear the entire panel.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.