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I get a frantic 911 call from a customer that tells me he backed up into his garage and decided to try to repaint it himself by sanding the bumper with 400 grit sandpaper. Can you believe this? Anyway, I met him at my shop on a Sunday (because he was suicidal)When I got there this is what I saw. I told him he probaly went through the clear coat (da) and after buffing it we will see what we have. After a couple of passes with diamond cut, I saw little improvement. Since he was selling the car, he didn't want to get it painted at a body shop. He asked me if I could. I told him all I could use was spray paint, he was ok with that so I proceeded to wet sand the entire bumper, prepped it with primer. and spray painted it. I must say it does look better, but not something I would do on my car. Here is how it looked afterwards. The moral of the story is??????? I think he knows now.
 
oh man...poor do it yourselfer....hopefully he really did learn his lesson and come to u for ALL his paint problems for now on...
 
mrecktid said:
That's like someone who gets a cut on their arm, trying to play doctor and pours alcohol on his arm, wraps it up, and calls it a day.
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I have done something simular. But it was on a construction site repairing a piece of equipment. I sliced myt finger open and decided to instant glue the wound shut. Little did I know that instant glue contains cyonide. Hence the name cyanoacrolate <sp>



Nice job on the repair. Sometimes the DIY folks are our best customers. They make damage we need to repair. Thats why I love automatic car washes so much. LOL
 
Throttlethumb, I actually believe that using cyanoacrylate adhesive is an "approved" wound closure technique. Just because something has "cyanide" in it doesn't make it a poison unless it's in a form that can be metabolized, etc. Flourine is an extremely dangerous oxidizing chemical, but most of us put it in our mouth every day as sodium fluoride in our toothpaste.
 
License plate noted. I won't be buying that car! If he will try to use 400 grit on his paint, no telling what other shortcuts he's taken with the car over the years.
 
LOL

I once had a guy come into the oil shop I work at and he was waiting out back with his car and decided to "touch up" his scratches. He had a can of spray paint and a paper towel. He first preped by wipping off with a dry paper towel then sprayed the sray paint on. When it dripped he just wipped it up with the paper towel. He also used it on his hub caps and oversprayed all over his tires and steel wheels. lol I couldn't believe it! Then when I went out to drive the car into the shop he said to watch out for the wet paint because he didn't want it ruined. lol I should have said it alread is.
 
Pontman43 said:
LOL

I once had a guy come into the oil shop I work at and he was waiting out back with his car and decided to "touch up" his scratches. He had a can of spray paint and a paper towel. He first preped by wipping off with a dry paper towel then sprayed the sray paint on. When it dripped he just wipped it up with the paper towel. He also used it on his hub caps and oversprayed all over his tires and steel wheels. lol I couldn't believe it! Then when I went out to drive the car into the shop he said to watch out for the wet paint because he didn't want it ruined. lol I should have said it alread is.
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Was it a blue Contour? I think I saw it tonight at Albertsons. Looks like they repainted over a failed clear coat with spray cans. :eek:
 
I had a kid one time with a white early model integra come up to me and asked if I could fix his hood....I thought it was scratched or something. I walk outside and he had taken it to bare metal and it had a nice layer of rust over it. I ended up sanding down to nice shiny metal again and finished off with a smooth grit and then using a primer white, wet sanded and did another coat and so on and so on. It came out looking really good, then he wanted it clearcoated so I had to remind him im not a painter and we were not standing in a body shop...lol
 
I use to detail my previous boss's Dodge Durango. He had scuffed up the front bumper by hitting a white fence or something. The car is black. One of the guys at my previous job, BEFORE CONSULTING WITH ME, decided to use steel wool (the kind to wash stuff in food - it was a deli I was working) and it took off the paint....GREAT! However, the paint was really screwed up. I just thought I'd share a situation where people don't know what they are thinking.



Nick
 
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