Couple first-timer questions
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- May 16, 2014 at 9:08 pm #46650
My 2000 4runner sat under a tree for a year and a half and the sap destroyed my clear coat. It’s peeling off of the paint in a couple places and has a dull, flat look everywhere else(hood, top of car, top of fender flares)
This truck is only used a couple times a year so I was thinking of giving it a paint job myself.
I was wondering if I could just sand(400 grit) around the areas where the clear is peeling off to feather it in to the rest of the clear and then scuff pad the rest. Would I only need to prime over the area I sanded? Would everything need to be primed or will the paint stick to the scuffed-only areas as well?
You would really only need to prime the areas you feathered out, not so much for adhesion as much as so you don’t end up with bullseyes/waves. Prime and block the feathered areas flat, as far as the rest of the job goes, base will stick to the sanded/scuffed areas just fine. Depending on the product, 400grit may be to aggressive for areas that are getting directly topcoated. I usually sand anywhere thats getting color with 600grit on a DA. and my blend/clear only areas with 800 on a DA. You can use a grey scuff on all of your edges/hard to get areas to degloss/scratch the surface.
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