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GRS reader Adam forwards a page demonstrating people “painting their cars with rollers and saving a bomb on professional paintjobs”.
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A $50 paint job for your car? I guess caveat emptor, buyer beware… you get what you pay for.
My friend has a compressor and professional paint gun. He’s attempted to paint two cars, and has not been able to do a consistent job. In the first case the temperature wasn’t right, and the paint has an orangepeel effect. A lot of buffing might be able to take that out, but that requires another investment in a buffer. His second try resulted in some nasty paint streaks running down the side of the car although he admitted to operator error because he had the gun set incorrectly.
My point is that there are many pitfalls to beware of, and if you make a mistake the results can be pretty offensive to the eyes
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I read part of the forum thread linked in the article. It seems it actually works, and it’s a lot cheaper than paying a pro to do it. I don’t know that I would use that technique on a classic I had just spent a decade of weekends restoring, or a Concours d’Elegance show car, but for a decent-looking fresh paintjob on a daily driver that is just going to get rock-chipped all over again the next time you take it on the highway, I think it is a great alternative.
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There is an 85-page thread which got the whole $50 paint job thing going here:
http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=2655425
That is the SECOND 40 pages. People have posted examples of their work.
Note: Even professional painters get orange peel, it’s not the equipment. Good and great paint jobs are about your biceps, a lot of wet sanding, and polishing. Spraying and thinking you’re going to be done is hopelessly naive.
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