Any Spraypaint gurus???
06 February 2002, 09:49 AM
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06 February 2002, 10:13 AM
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POC, the more primer and basecoat you put on, the worse it will get, because the basecoat is semi opaque and you are darkening what is underneath it. The whole bumper needs a uniform coat.
It is a nightmare to match small areas of metallics. The tints will never be the same to get an exact colour match, the original will have faded slightly, and the mica in the basecoat will lay in a different direction to the original thus reflecting the light in a different way. Also, the mica particles in an aerosol have to be much smaller to pass through an aerosol nozzle than they do to pass through a 1.8mm or whatever fluid tip on a robot sprayarm at the factory, and this reflects the light in a different way.
If you haven't gone right back to bare plastic, you may get away with rubbing off what you have applied so far entirely, t cut the surrounding area to clean/key it, and respray the area with basecoat then lacquer, with no primer.
Unfortunately, you will probably have to get the whole bumper sprayed if this doesn't work.
It is a nightmare to match small areas of metallics. The tints will never be the same to get an exact colour match, the original will have faded slightly, and the mica in the basecoat will lay in a different direction to the original thus reflecting the light in a different way. Also, the mica particles in an aerosol have to be much smaller to pass through an aerosol nozzle than they do to pass through a 1.8mm or whatever fluid tip on a robot sprayarm at the factory, and this reflects the light in a different way.
If you haven't gone right back to bare plastic, you may get away with rubbing off what you have applied so far entirely, t cut the surrounding area to clean/key it, and respray the area with basecoat then lacquer, with no primer.
Unfortunately, you will probably have to get the whole bumper sprayed if this doesn't work.
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