any one know best way to get spray paint off?
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(not my gf), so is there any way to get that paint out with out damaging the paint?
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Clay bar, solvents, wet sand, buff, or you could always repaint lol.
Doing it myself, I'd try with the least abrasive product/technique 1st. Since your car was recently painted, we would hope that there clear is new and still thick.
Anyways, I'd start with a wool pad, 3M Rubbing compound, and a buffer/policher... not one of them super high-speed ones either. Your routine buffing/polishing orbital buffer type thing (~$20). Keep in mind that if you don't have this stuff already, it will cost a bunch and the body shop may charge about the same and guarantee the results.
Do that for awhile... Slight progress? Good progress? If slight or poor progress, after a loooong time (20 minutes in one area), then wetsanding will be the next step.
There is a technique to doing this. If you have not done it before, or aren't being supervised by someone who has, you are risking paint damage that the body shop may not be able to easily fix. STOP HERE, take it to the shop.
Read up on wetsanding tips, gotchas, and process/technique... even if you've done this before.
Then just go from most abrasive, to least. Each time further bringing out the shine and reducing the scratches to nothing.
The higher the grit, the better. You will easily find 2000 grit wetsand paper at the auto parts. Look for and get 2500 grit. It's slightly less abrassive than the 2000 grit.
After evenly wetsanding the bad paint off, you will use the rubbing compound, to eventually polish and a really good wax (I used to use Megauiar's).
Please read up before you follow my steps. they are definitely not detailed enough and you could FUBAR things in a worse way.
Good luck!
Anyways, I'd start with a wool pad, 3M Rubbing compound, and a buffer/policher... not one of them super high-speed ones either. Your routine buffing/polishing orbital buffer type thing (~$20). Keep in mind that if you don't have this stuff already, it will cost a bunch and the body shop may charge about the same and guarantee the results.
Do that for awhile... Slight progress? Good progress? If slight or poor progress, after a loooong time (20 minutes in one area), then wetsanding will be the next step.
There is a technique to doing this. If you have not done it before, or aren't being supervised by someone who has, you are risking paint damage that the body shop may not be able to easily fix. STOP HERE, take it to the shop.
Read up on wetsanding tips, gotchas, and process/technique... even if you've done this before.
Then just go from most abrasive, to least. Each time further bringing out the shine and reducing the scratches to nothing.
The higher the grit, the better. You will easily find 2000 grit wetsand paper at the auto parts. Look for and get 2500 grit. It's slightly less abrassive than the 2000 grit.
After evenly wetsanding the bad paint off, you will use the rubbing compound, to eventually polish and a really good wax (I used to use Megauiar's).
Please read up before you follow my steps. they are definitely not detailed enough and you could FUBAR things in a worse way.
Good luck!
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car wax+double aught steel woolage = got rid of water stains on my windows mite wrk on paint
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claybar a bunch
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2000grit sandpaper + water applied with moderate force in a "X" motion over small scratches fills them in, maybe it will work on spray paint?
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claybar a bunch
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2000grit sandpaper + water applied with moderate force in a "X" motion over small scratches fills them in, maybe it will work on spray paint?
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^Fuck all that shit...^
Go to your local Auto parts, or Auto body supply store, and ask for a can of "Graffiti Gone" or a similar product... Spray it on and wipe it away. Simple as that with no risk to your cars paint.
My car got "tagged" last summer and that's what I used. Works great and everything is as it was before.
Cheers!
Go to your local Auto parts, or Auto body supply store, and ask for a can of "Graffiti Gone" or a similar product... Spray it on and wipe it away. Simple as that with no risk to your cars paint.
My car got "tagged" last summer and that's what I used. Works great and everything is as it was before.
Cheers!
to be honest the "tagged" area isnt to thick or extensive, just on the hood, and a bit of the front lip, so took it into the shop i asked for an estimate to fix the paint on the hood. want to charge me $500 to clean graffitti off my *&^#$ hood.......is it just me or is that way to much....
i'll look around at some other shops(hope they were just trying to screw me and its not really that expensive)
i'll swing by and see if they have any "graffiti gone" at the places round here, cause that sounds way easier then having a shop do it.
thanks guys! i'll try and get a pic up after i get off work
i'll look around at some other shops(hope they were just trying to screw me and its not really that expensive)
i'll swing by and see if they have any "graffiti gone" at the places round here, cause that sounds way easier then having a shop do it.
thanks guys! i'll try and get a pic up after i get off work
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