Brettly-2008
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So my SS has the dreaded clear coat bubbles on the rear spoiler. Given that the rest of the car has excellent paint, it's always bugged me that the rear wing was degrading and getting worse each month in winter.
I got a quote of around $350 to get it professionally resprayed which is pretty decent I thought, but I have sprayed acrylic metallic car paint before (prepped and resprayed my HQ ute in Senator Quartz a few years back) so I know the basics, but this time I will be doing it with basic automotive off-the-shelf products and not the full-blown compressor, spray guns, paint mixing process.
Wish me luck!
I hit the spoiler with 120 grit sand paper to remove and flatten the bubbling clear coat. I have not fully removed the clear or original colour and chose a medium-fill primer to smooth things out. Spoiler was simply rubbed with turps to clean surface before applying primer.
My SS has the bigger SS-V spoiler which all early series 1s got and has the black section underneath which obviously needs to be taped up.
Primer on - first was a light coat and two slightly heavier coats a minute or so apart.
Once primer dries you can get an idea on how good the surface will be after a wet sand
Over the weekend I'll rub the primer with 400-600 wet paper to achieve the surface I'll need for the top coat.
I got a quote of around $350 to get it professionally resprayed which is pretty decent I thought, but I have sprayed acrylic metallic car paint before (prepped and resprayed my HQ ute in Senator Quartz a few years back) so I know the basics, but this time I will be doing it with basic automotive off-the-shelf products and not the full-blown compressor, spray guns, paint mixing process.
Wish me luck!
I hit the spoiler with 120 grit sand paper to remove and flatten the bubbling clear coat. I have not fully removed the clear or original colour and chose a medium-fill primer to smooth things out. Spoiler was simply rubbed with turps to clean surface before applying primer.
My SS has the bigger SS-V spoiler which all early series 1s got and has the black section underneath which obviously needs to be taped up.
Primer on - first was a light coat and two slightly heavier coats a minute or so apart.
Once primer dries you can get an idea on how good the surface will be after a wet sand
Over the weekend I'll rub the primer with 400-600 wet paper to achieve the surface I'll need for the top coat.