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Mark, looks great, one thing is your prep work was really good especially since you went with black

Mark,
The paint job does look awesome. If I had known the painting was this easy, and the results would be soooo good, I'd have spent a little more time on prep work and went with black myself on my 280 instead of white. The car didn't really need much. It just sounded too good to be true, so I was skeptical. Now everyone that sees the car don't believe it was a roll on job. Come on everyone, let's see some more...

Since this is viewed so often I've made it a sticky for awhile

We wanna see Exits work! lol...
Hurry up Exit, we are all waiting

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LOL... you are probably right!

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usually when he goes missing for a day or 2 he comes back with the car a totally different color!!!!

mark e that gn looks great

Thanks for the compliments. I had fun doing it and the next one will be better. This thread will probably still be going

Thanks again 69chargeryeehaa

I also did black on a 88 Honda Accord. Do you have any roller lines in the large areas (hood, roof etc.)? I can see them when I look straight down on mine. Also, I am happy with what I have as I wet sanded and polished, but need to go back and do more wet sanding as I still have more orange peel than I would like and black shows EVERYTHING!

I am also using this car to practice on and I am ordering a Porter Cable 7424 (or from Meguiar's the G100 - same machine) to do the final polishing with as once I have this down I will go to work on my car. This one is my son's! Here is a picture of the finished product.



I will try to get some tomorrow of the side and the hood. Thanks for any help.

Mike

Here are some shots during the painting process.

The first two are after 5 and 6 coats of paint.





The last one is when finished with wet sanding and polishing.

Wow that Honda looks great!!! Hi guys im new to the forums and i really joined because of this thread... i come from www.shoforum.com im a muscle car guy but i like 4doors!! Okay currently i went and bought a pontiac lemans fender from the junk yard just so i can try out this method!

so far i have collected the items bellow

Aircraft stripper- removes paint without having to sanding it down.

Miniral spirts-oderless!!!

Bondo- for any sneeky dents i might run in to..

wet/dry sand paper- grit 330-2500

and rustoleum Gloss Black.

and the paint brush/rollers.

Here is how i plan on tackleing the frontier!

Use aircraft stripper and strip the paint off the lemans fender paint.

then fix and dents with bondo and sand down the bondoed areas.

I havent decided if i should use primer or not but i mostlikely wont.

then put my first coat on and wetsand with 330 and each coat i put i will go all the way up to 2500 then i will put another coat over the 2500 grit and polish or should i do 2500 grit then polish without putting a coat over the 2500 grit sanded area??

after that im going to polish with a rotary buffer ( im a semi-pro detailer) and use coats of abrasivep polish/non-abrasive polish and then last end with a high end glaze wax....


what do you think???!

Another member, all because of this wonderful thread!!! I have questions, could be mostly for 69chargeryeehaa and Marq.

I have a red 1990 240sx. I want to repaint it red. I like painting, always wanted to paint cars, nows my chance. (I don;t count the spray bomb I did on my first 240sx)

I’ve followed the marathon thread of painting a car with a roller. I was set on the tremclad and then I noticed the success with seemingly less work with Brightside.

The reason I was thinking of going with Brightside is because my car is already red. I know its much more involved going from another color to red, more coats etc etc. But since my car is already red and I’m going to go back to the same color I figured this is the way to go. (basically it’s a 1990 that had its rear quarter panels and bumper cover redone from a fender 12 years ago, that aftermarket paint is faded very bad – past the point of saving.)

Unfortunately I won’t be starting this till the next year when I finish my garage, but I may start gathering the supplies now. How many coats would you think I would need to do? I would scuff the whole car obviously, and let the car cure in a hot garage after each coat– or out on the side of the road for the later stages of curing (to make sure no dust gets embedded initially). What are your thoughts on this job, red over red? (my door jambs and crevices are still perfect)

I truly appreciate any feedback, it seems the Brightside way is the way to go for my particular application.

Being in Canada I can get the tremclad easily, has anyone found out after about the Ebay low priced Brightside after???? I've seen people asking but no replies. I might end up painting the car sooner weather depending since I've got my 26x28 pad poured

Sorry for the novel.

Man I cant beleive this is still alive and well. I've been busy working lately and havent been on for a while. Good to see the posts still keep coming.

Ive got my newest project, an 84 F150. I'll post a picture of the before any bodywork this weekend. I also just finished a 85 F150 4x4 and it turned out great I'll get a pic up of it as well. Painted it Raspberry red (tremclad)

For now here is a pic of the scirocco.

Cheers

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