help with a stupid thing i did!

[fabolous24]

ok i dont know if anyone can help but....as some of u might know a friend and i have our own car detailing business. well i clean one of my former bosses cars about once a month and he always has some nasty *** tree sap **** on it.

so anyway i used a scrubing pad that i shouldnt have used to try and get this off and it ****ed up the clear coat. its only on the roof and the trunk but its prety bad its just like dull swirls everywhere.

does anyone have any ideas on how to fix this or how much it would cost to be fixed? im thinking it need to be wetsanded and re-cleared but i duno....he wasnt real pissed but i told him i would find out about how to have it fixed....any help would be appreciated.

P.S. no need to tell me how much of an idiot i am and how stupid of a thing that was to do...i already know this.

[89IROC&RS]

go to a bodyshop, only way to give advice is to actually look at it and see how bad it is, and judge accordingly, any advice you get here will be a guess at best, which you can do yourself. im assuming that its beyond just waxing it, and buffing the swirls out, so beyond that, im not a body guy so i have nothing to offer, sorry man.

[DaMoNe6969]

I partly agree with 89Iroc.. the only way anybody could offer any knowledgable advice is to look at it and see how bad it is..

I could suggest a professional polisher and some 3M medium or fine cutting paste followed by mequires car polish and a buffer.. But if you dont have experience with cutting paste, your liable to take the rest of the paint off with the clear coat.. then your ##@#$@ed

Or you could just cross your fingers and try buffing it out with car polish alone by hand or with a buffer

BTW.. You are a detailing center.. Dont you deal with paint detailing? Most of the detailer's here do power polishing and buffing.. etc.. that would take care of that

[blueturtle]

yeah the clearcoat on my car is fucked up its starting to chip off of my hood, and i also found out that well the paint on my car was just strayed over the old paint so i dunno how long its gonna stay on anyways kinda pissed about that one

[Hypsi87]

if it is a factory clear coat job, you just messed it up hard core. At the factory, they do not put enought clear on to be able to sand out scratches. Hell they barely put enough on to allow you to buff it out. Go to a body shop, they will be able to tell you.

[DaMoNe6969]

chipping off clearcoat is a lot harder to solve than clearcoat that was scratched off..

spraying over the old paint is usually ok as long as it's prepped properly.. i'de suggest priming it first though

[blueturtle]

well i dunno if it was primed and its only on my hood and a little on the front bumper so i don't even worry about it that much its not that big of a spot

[DiabloGT]

Originally Posted by DaMoNe6969

chipping off clearcoat is a lot harder to solve than clearcoat that was scratched off..

spraying over the old paint is usually ok as long as it's prepped properly.. i'de suggest priming it first though

you should always prime, or your paint job will end up like a maaco job

[Hypsi87]

did you konw that macco has some of the best painters and paint equipment in the whole automotive painting world? They way they save money is by cutting prep work, which we all know that prep work is the key to an awesome paint job.

[89IROC&RS]

you should always prime if you go down to metal, but if you just take off the clearcoat, and arent changing the color, just reapplying the clear, i dont see why you would primer over the body color. rather just spray the clear over the body color. i mean, isnt primer just a paint that bonds to metal? so if you dont go down to metal, you wouldnt need it. Im not a body guy, but i would assume that you could do it that way.

[DaMoNe6969]

Thats what I was thinkin..

And Hypsi, I agree there.. They do some very very nice work... If your willing to pay for it that is, But most of the people that go to them, go there because they want it done Cheap.. they roll your car in, tape it, tack it and spray it.. throw it in the oven for 5 minutes and back out to the parking lot.. Its almost a drivethrough service..

[justin97z28]

go to wal mart and get some spray on clearcoat for like $7 and spray it on, it would be cheap might not last though.

[fabolous24]

i dont think you can wax that kind of clear coat though.

[4onFloor]

^ i would't recommend that

[ridge_runner]

get some meguiars glaze # 2 professinal fine-cut cleaner... buff it using a low powered buffer or by hand.... then go over with meguiars professional machine glaze #3.. that might work