imported_Picus
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Hey folks; today I was visited by forum member SkeptiKal who has a 2002 NBP RSX-S. Since Nik knows a thing or three about detailing the car was already in good shape, he brought it to me with questions about a couple issues. I think most of them were addressed but there was one that left me sort of stumped (well, maybe).
Over the drivers side rear fender there is an area that has obviously been re-painted badly. The orange peel in this area is very pronouced to the point that the area looks dull. My initial thought when I saw it was that the re-paint had been sprayed on much too thick. This was confirmed when I found some cracking under the fender and saw a chip in the repaint that showed the area was very thick with paint. There are also very obvsiouly color sanding marks under the clear in the base coat.
I decided to polish the area to get an idea how hard/soft the paint was in preperation for wetsanding to reduce the OP and kind of blend it with the rest of the car. I initially polished with Menz FPII on a white; to my surprise all marring in the area (light swirls) were removed easily. This lead me to believe the paint in that area was soft. I grabbed some unigrit 3000 and sanded a small area under the gas cap. Now anyone who has used 3k knows that it's incredibly fine and usually requires a bit of time to remove much paint; however in this case the paint marred almost instantly, and quite a bit. I polished the area to remove the marring and needed 3 passes of IP/orange then 1 pass of FPII/white to clean it up.
So my conclusion was that this re-painted area is painfully soft, and that it would not be worth risking further damage to level it out and blend it with the rest of the car. I think that since 3k grit marred so quickly it would be a nightmare to wetsand then polish out the entire area. *However* I am open to suggestions. Nik came to me with the hope of fixing this issue, so I'd like to exhaust all options.
Here are pictures of the effected area:
The area with the bad paint job.
Right besides it, normal amount of op
Closeup of bad area:
The rest of the detail is coming...
Over the drivers side rear fender there is an area that has obviously been re-painted badly. The orange peel in this area is very pronouced to the point that the area looks dull. My initial thought when I saw it was that the re-paint had been sprayed on much too thick. This was confirmed when I found some cracking under the fender and saw a chip in the repaint that showed the area was very thick with paint. There are also very obvsiouly color sanding marks under the clear in the base coat.
I decided to polish the area to get an idea how hard/soft the paint was in preperation for wetsanding to reduce the OP and kind of blend it with the rest of the car. I initially polished with Menz FPII on a white; to my surprise all marring in the area (light swirls) were removed easily. This lead me to believe the paint in that area was soft. I grabbed some unigrit 3000 and sanded a small area under the gas cap. Now anyone who has used 3k knows that it's incredibly fine and usually requires a bit of time to remove much paint; however in this case the paint marred almost instantly, and quite a bit. I polished the area to remove the marring and needed 3 passes of IP/orange then 1 pass of FPII/white to clean it up.
So my conclusion was that this re-painted area is painfully soft, and that it would not be worth risking further damage to level it out and blend it with the rest of the car. I think that since 3k grit marred so quickly it would be a nightmare to wetsand then polish out the entire area. *However* I am open to suggestions. Nik came to me with the hope of fixing this issue, so I'd like to exhaust all options.
Here are pictures of the effected area:
The area with the bad paint job.
Right besides it, normal amount of op
Closeup of bad area:
The rest of the detail is coming...
