do0dfromcali

I decided to be a nice little son, and detail the mother's car today. I noticed that there was specks of yellow paint all over the car from where she had driven through wet paint So I used an abrasive on some of the spots and noticed that it dulled the paint.

My question is....what can I use to bring back the shine and secondly is there anything else besides that abrasive **** I could use, possibly a clay bar?


Now here comes the problem, my buddy thinks he can just use clear coat in a can to get the shine back. Well he sprayed the **** on the car while I was inside and now it looks like ****. How should I go about getting this crap off? I was possibly thinking wetsanding?

I would really appreciate some help.

Thanks,
Mike

Brandon Boomhauer

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what abrasive did you use on the car?

and a claybar would have been the right product to remove paint over spray.

As for removing the rattle can stuff, I'm not quite sure, maybe a little paint thinner, but very little at a time. Don't do anything like this until some of the other guys post.

I wouldn't recommend wetsanding to you either. Most factory clearcoats are very thin and (guessing here) by the sound of things you haven't had a ton of experience in that type of stuff.

You will have to compound and polish the paint to restore the shine.

MadIceV8

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If you spayed WD-40 on the new rattler paint within 30mins it would have taken it off no problem... and yea you should have originally used a clay bar to get the yellow dots off. About the dullness, a good polish (ie: 3M) should bring the shine back. Dunno how you'll take that new paint off though if you let it sit...

PendragonZ

I've heard clay will not get off road paint...

MadIceV8

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On one of my older cars it took it off. Guess it depends on how long its been on the car and if the car still has some wax on it.

SilverGhost

iTrader: (53)

i'd call up a body shop to get advice on removing that clear from the rattle can.

then i'd kick that guy's *** who did that, that was pretty dumb

do0dfromcali

Well I talked with my boss who grew up working in a body shop. I think on wednesday were gonna wetsand it and then buff the paint to get it shiney again.

Hopefully everything works out well.

I did crack the kid really hard in the arm with full force.

Brandon Boomhauer

iTrader: (10)

good to hear you did that.


clay will take off some, but there was a thread a while back about some road paints that are heated like 400 degrees which really wreakes havoc on the paint....