Quote: baku - if you push your thumbnail onto it then drag your thumbnail sideways (like slicing), does it not do anything?
I was just out in my garage earlier scratching all of the various test areas I've done, red, almond, standard, professional, using my fingernail and slicing sideways. On my car, with hard paint, I am unable to slice sideways or any other way.
I checked out a "1 day paint and body" today in Sacramento. Its a bad sign when you walk in and the two people working there are sitting in the office reading the funny pages. The few cars that were there did not look very good, way too much orange peel. Maybe slathering it on thick is the only way they can keep that 5 year non-prorated guarantee of theirs. So far I've got a couple prices- $500 from Miracle to shoot it with BASF urethane SS and a sealer, or $1200 from a better body shop for PPG Deltron BC/CC, if I bring it in primered up and ready to go. And I'd have to do the color sanding, which I'm fine with since its just time consuming. If I spent $1200 though I'd have a paint job worth more than that. That's a paint job on a budget, isn't it? Choices choices..
Im willing to part with some more $ in testing this rustoleum stuff, just everything I've tried doesn't harden enough, and all the hardeners I read about are highly toxic and I dont really want to mess with that since it requires so much working with. I've already spent probably 70 dollars on this thing, which is 14% of a $500 SS paint job with shine, metallic and very hard surface.
No matter what i do EXIT i cannot scratch this stuff. I will break a nail if i try, i've tryied it with a piece of hard stick as well and other ppl have tried it to. And its not just in 1 area, the WHOLE CAR, no where am i able to put a scratch. I've spent about 200$ soo far since i bought the car. Thats for SANDPAPER to get rid of the original budda civic car, brake pads and rotors, terry-cloth, goof-off, rust-oelum paint, more sandpaper, bondo. So yea, if i were to give my car to the body shop as it was when i bought it. They were charging me 2500+ to do all the body work and then do a single stage paint.
No way jose! My paint is finally starting to come along. I think lol, this wetsand i'm doing now, after the third coat, has A LOT LESS ORANGE PEELS, the first two coats i admit, i rushed and were too thick. But this third one is alot better and i only hope it gets better.
