Can I do it all in a day?
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Hi guys, I wondered about getting your feedback on this one.
I have a ’87 Cadillac here which I think I might paint before selling on. The car has an existing repaint which was not done by me and was not done very well. It has a lot of orange peel and it is painted too thin to sand it back and polish it back up. I also need to repair a rust damage on the hood and as the car is a repaint I can’t match the paint anyway as its not the stock shade.
So normally when I paint a car it is done over a couple of days or more.
Once the body is ready I primer it and usually leave that overnight and do the guide coat and sand the next day then that day put the basecoat and clear on.
Because I will have to use a borrowed facility to paint the car I was looking to do it all in one day. It won’t be in a proper booth just in a workshop so there will only be atmospheric drying.
I am proposing to use a regular 2K primer, regular solvent based base coat and then 1K clear. I know a bunch of you are freaking at the thought of 1K clear but it has low toxicity and I don’t have the facilities to deal with isocyanate based paints and clears just now. (My 2K primer is isocyanate-free) also in the workshop it will get dust or insects in the clear, its just the way the world goes, and I find it can polish insects and dirt out of 1K real easy… 2K not so!
Anyway, my concern is about trapped solvent. If I have 2 coats of primer, 2 coats of base plus a drop coat and then the clear – maybe 4 coats – do you guys think I am going to overload the job to do it in one day?
so you will be priming it in the morning…letting it dry then sanding it later on, then painting it? Too much for one day, you are allowing yourself too much room for problems.
If it is a job worth doing, it is worth doing right. Personally I would rather buy the car as is, then have to deal with another rushed paint job on it. I know you want to use the 1k clear, but do you really want to sell a car like that?
I think I just needed someone to tell me what I guess I knew already…
thanks…
Its an ’87 Cadillac not a ’57 or a ’07 so there is a diminishing returns thing to take into account.
I’ll think this one out a little better.
[quote=”alistair” post=21003]
Its an ’87 Cadillac not a ’57 or a ’07 so there is a diminishing returns thing to take into account.
[/quote]I suppose. Is the car even worth your time and materials, then?
Here’s my thought. U want to sell it, fix what needs to be fix,prime just fixed areas. Later sand everything w/400 grit da, and shoot it in singlstage. I mean as u pointed out a 87′ caddy never will be a collectors car. & u want to sell it, there’s no need to put a lot of material & time in to it. And it can be done in a day. U have to consider what you will get for it vs what u ask for.If any one ask maco did it.
The thing to consider is you r selling it, u will only get so much, I wouldn’t spend a lot of time on it. Sand paint ss, for sale, your happy, who ever buys it will b happy.
Yeah, I guess a quick single stage job would tidy it up enough to make a better price. I didn’t think of that. I usually do clear over basecoat on everything.
Thanks for the input guys.
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