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So, what about the dust and small hairs that are stuck in the final coat of paint? Did you just not worry about that stuff while you drove the car around?





My theory at the time was to look at what could be the worst case scenario while driving around with just a final layer of paint on the car. Yeah it could get dirty, get some bugs splotched on the front end.. and maybe some road tar from freshly paved roads on the fenders. If that was to be the case I planned to just wash down the car, light sand it and then slap on a fresh final skin. BUT after letting three months of usage with just the final coat of paint protecting the car I didn't have any problems.

Any dirt that got on the car simply washed off. After all the paint was designed to do that job. And since the final outer layer of paint had the glossy protection of itself nothing stuck to the paint during those days of driving around.

When it did come time to go for the final wet sand/ compounding, polishing and then waxing, I had no problems performing it on the now aged paint job.

It worked out as planned.

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If I wetsand them out without polishing, the gloss will be gone. I'm also running out of time as I need to move my bike and can't do that w/o the gas tank hooked back up. It is much easier to paint/polish/seal a gas tank that is not connected to the bike.

Are you recommending that I just suck it up and live with the dirt particles for a little while?



In this particular case I can see how it would be to your advantage to get the majority of the final wet sanding, compounding, polishing and waxing out of the way while the tank if off the motor bike. It will just be that much easier for you because you will have the luxury of having easy access to all sides of the tank and to rotate it around freely to have a horizontal surface to work on.

And once you get it up to a level you are initially satisfied with... you can slap it back onto the bike and later take your time doing further polishing and waxing to tweak up the shine and gloss.

Dunno... that is the way I would look at that particular set of circumstances...

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