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Paint Gurus: Come on in. I recently bought a SS that was painted by Maaco with one of their el cheapo paint jobs. From 10 feet away it doesn't look bad, but up close it does...
Anyhow, I am the type that likes clean and simple on vehicles. I want to remove the emblems and the side moldings from the car, but after removing one emblem I noticed it pulled some clear coat with it. Underneath the emblem appears to be the original paint/clear coat. You can see an outline of an S in the clear coat. It appears as though they did remove the badges as they were super glued back on.
I'd like to know if it is feasible to wetsand the clear coat and polish it out? My issue here is that i've never done this. Should I use a 1500 grit or a 2000 grit, then after that what is the best way to polish it out?
The car is BLACK so I want to make sure that if I do this it doesn't leave swirl marks, and the paint turns out polished and not hazy.
Please, give suggestions and even step by step tutorials.
Thanks.
Anyhow, I am the type that likes clean and simple on vehicles. I want to remove the emblems and the side moldings from the car, but after removing one emblem I noticed it pulled some clear coat with it. Underneath the emblem appears to be the original paint/clear coat. You can see an outline of an S in the clear coat. It appears as though they did remove the badges as they were super glued back on.
I'd like to know if it is feasible to wetsand the clear coat and polish it out? My issue here is that i've never done this. Should I use a 1500 grit or a 2000 grit, then after that what is the best way to polish it out?
The car is BLACK so I want to make sure that if I do this it doesn't leave swirl marks, and the paint turns out polished and not hazy.
Please, give suggestions and even step by step tutorials.
Thanks.
the cheap jobs from Maaco are usually single stage acrylic, they can be wetsanded but if they removed the badges there should not be ridges unless the original paint they went over had ridges and they didn't prep it right (which they tend to suck at).
what is most likely is in pulling off the badge you lifted the the entire new paint in that area off, like I said if they didn't prep the surface properly the paint job "chips" easily, if you where the one who had it done go back to them to have it fixed if the PO did it then you are probably SOL, it is standard practice for them to remove badges but they should have used double sided tape to reapply not superglue.
what is most likely is in pulling off the badge you lifted the the entire new paint in that area off, like I said if they didn't prep the surface properly the paint job "chips" easily, if you where the one who had it done go back to them to have it fixed if the PO did it then you are probably SOL, it is standard practice for them to remove badges but they should have used double sided tape to reapply not superglue.
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I think you are correct about them painting on top of the original paint and I peeled off new paint, however, when you look at the back of the emblem there isn't any black on it...
if you peeled anything off then it had to be more then just clear unless the car had the top end Maaco job done, there used to be a list of their levels (Ambassador, Presidential, etc etc) and like only the top level was a 2 stage job, meaning only that one had a true clear coat.
^^^ this or like already said they didnt pull the badges off which im 98% certain they didnt. They probably just taped it off. Are you sure its superglue youre seeing or is it a thin adhesive. Those people there must have been total bricks. But then again it is Maaco. As far as being able to polish that out it depends wether you have any clear to work with. Wana post some pics? Good luck dude.
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I am pretty sure they pulled the emblems...the berger panel is missing the bowtie next to ss emblems. One of the emblems was cracked to hell and glued back together...I will take some pics to show what i mean.
Can you feel edges were you see the outline of the badge, if not and you just feel adhesive most likely it is a layer on top of the clear and you could work it out. Ridges indicate built up clear around the badge which could be a reason you see the outline. But sounds good about the pics they will help.
