9838stang
Well-Known Member
As said above, rattle can paint jobs might sound cheap up front, but it will end up cost a little bit of cash. I ended up rattle bombing my car over 7 years ago. I painted my front bumper, rear bumper, driver front fender and lower half of the door. The lower half of the doors had runs and junk in them from being repainted, and the rear bumper was scratched and had a whole in it. the front bumper was prepped poorly and so the paint was chipping off. The fender was full of bondo and didnt set correctly.
After surveying the work ahead, i tackled each piece with a ton of care. As everyone else says, the details of the paint job are determined by the prep work. On each full panels, i used 2 almost 3 cans. I will say once the can is getting down to about to its last 1/3 maybe 1/4 left i throw the can away or you will start to get splatter effect. It will not work well. If you plan on using clear coat, light coats only. heavy coats will shrink the paint it will not end well.
One bare plastics, you will need a plastic adhesian promoter to attract the paint to the material unless you use plastic type spray paint. I recommend using Brite Touch brand paint. i have had great luck with it!!!
Now these pictures, the front bumper, and rear bumper have been replace since the rattle bomb. the front bumper was damaged by road debris, and the rear bumper was backed into in my 1st year in college. So i happened to find a couple of stock black bumpers for $20.00 each.
The driver side fender was the one that came with the car that i learned how to reshape metal on. So it has very little bondo in it. This is the same picture in all of the pictures posted.
Problem with spray paint. you cannot wax, or use wax soap, and you cannot use anything of other than water and soap. not waterless dry wash. There was someone at a car should that had seen my car and made a comment that it was dirty and it needs to be cleaned. The spray paint was wet and kept drying and would suck debris into the paint. I think when i put the paint on, it was to humid becuase it seemed the paint was soft for 3 weeks. But the guy went to his car got a bottle of his stuff he was selling and used it on my car and he wrecked the paint. what ever agent that was in it, made the paint haze and over the fall made the paint crinkle.
After surveying the work ahead, i tackled each piece with a ton of care. As everyone else says, the details of the paint job are determined by the prep work. On each full panels, i used 2 almost 3 cans. I will say once the can is getting down to about to its last 1/3 maybe 1/4 left i throw the can away or you will start to get splatter effect. It will not work well. If you plan on using clear coat, light coats only. heavy coats will shrink the paint it will not end well.
One bare plastics, you will need a plastic adhesian promoter to attract the paint to the material unless you use plastic type spray paint. I recommend using Brite Touch brand paint. i have had great luck with it!!!
Now these pictures, the front bumper, and rear bumper have been replace since the rattle bomb. the front bumper was damaged by road debris, and the rear bumper was backed into in my 1st year in college. So i happened to find a couple of stock black bumpers for $20.00 each.
The driver side fender was the one that came with the car that i learned how to reshape metal on. So it has very little bondo in it. This is the same picture in all of the pictures posted.
Problem with spray paint. you cannot wax, or use wax soap, and you cannot use anything of other than water and soap. not waterless dry wash. There was someone at a car should that had seen my car and made a comment that it was dirty and it needs to be cleaned. The spray paint was wet and kept drying and would suck debris into the paint. I think when i put the paint on, it was to humid becuase it seemed the paint was soft for 3 weeks. But the guy went to his car got a bottle of his stuff he was selling and used it on my car and he wrecked the paint. what ever agent that was in it, made the paint haze and over the fall made the paint crinkle.
