SOOOO COOOL!!!!
So I headed down to my closest auto paint supply store, Providence Lacquer in Cranston, Ri. Their main business is auto paint. They also cary the complete lines of Meguire's Professional Detailer and Car Brite products, as well as anything else you might want for auto care. I picked up an erasor wheel, and a roll of no-residue painter's masking tape, which is for my detail job later this week.
This erasor wheel is exactly what it sounds like. A disk made of erasor product! Its supposed to go into some sort of screw-in spining device, a rotary buffer I think. But I'll have none of that. So I strap it into the chuck of my Dewalt corded drill, and start humming away. I start at the right-rear quarter pannel, which is in the worst shape, and if I have to repaint a panel because I burn through the paint, it might as well be this one. It was a little tough to keep the speed down, keep the erasor on target, and keep it from bouncing. I slide from rear to front, ending at the edge of the rear door. Now all I can smell is burned rubber, and all thats on my paint is this marring that looks just like I took a pencil erasor and went up and down from taillight to door-jamb. I wash it. Oh no. Still there. Microfiber. Oh no, still there. I dont have any of my car care products yet. Well nothing thats any good. I run downstairs and grab an ooooold bottle of McGuires Scratch-X rubbing compound and my last fresh microfiber. Whala! Took that erasor markings right off!
No burn marks, no fade marks, just flawless paint that needs a good claybar to get the very small invisible specs of adhesive left. WOW
I am the amature of amatures, and this was easy!
So I only had time to do the passanger side.
Tomorow when I do the drivers side, Im going to do step by step with pictures that I'll post here. I just had to brag about my failed attempt to ruin a good paint job
So I headed down to my closest auto paint supply store, Providence Lacquer in Cranston, Ri. Their main business is auto paint. They also cary the complete lines of Meguire's Professional Detailer and Car Brite products, as well as anything else you might want for auto care. I picked up an erasor wheel, and a roll of no-residue painter's masking tape, which is for my detail job later this week.
This erasor wheel is exactly what it sounds like. A disk made of erasor product! Its supposed to go into some sort of screw-in spining device, a rotary buffer I think. But I'll have none of that. So I strap it into the chuck of my Dewalt corded drill, and start humming away. I start at the right-rear quarter pannel, which is in the worst shape, and if I have to repaint a panel because I burn through the paint, it might as well be this one. It was a little tough to keep the speed down, keep the erasor on target, and keep it from bouncing. I slide from rear to front, ending at the edge of the rear door. Now all I can smell is burned rubber, and all thats on my paint is this marring that looks just like I took a pencil erasor and went up and down from taillight to door-jamb. I wash it. Oh no. Still there. Microfiber. Oh no, still there. I dont have any of my car care products yet. Well nothing thats any good. I run downstairs and grab an ooooold bottle of McGuires Scratch-X rubbing compound and my last fresh microfiber. Whala! Took that erasor markings right off!
No burn marks, no fade marks, just flawless paint that needs a good claybar to get the very small invisible specs of adhesive left. WOW
I am the amature of amatures, and this was easy!
So I only had time to do the passanger side.
Tomorow when I do the drivers side, Im going to do step by step with pictures that I'll post here. I just had to brag about my failed attempt to ruin a good paint job
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I had the dealer remove the stupid tape pinstripe on my car when I bought it.
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So I headed down to my closest auto paint supply store, Providence Lacquer in Cranston, Ri. Their main business is auto paint. They also cary the complete lines of Meguire's Professional Detailer and Car Brite products, as well as anything else you might want for auto care. I picked up an erasor wheel, and a roll of no-residue painter's masking tape, which is for my detail job later this week.
This erasor wheel is exactly what it sounds like. A disk made of erasor product! Its supposed to go into some sort of screw-in spining device, a rotary buffer I think. But I'll have none of that. So I strap it into the chuck of my Dewalt corded drill, and start humming away. I start at the right-rear quarter pannel, which is in the worst shape, and if I have to repaint a panel because I burn through the paint, it might as well be this one. It was a little tough to keep the speed down, keep the erasor on target, and keep it from bouncing. I slide from rear to front, ending at the edge of the rear door. Now all I can smell is burned rubber, and all thats on my paint is this marring that looks just like I took a pencil erasor and went up and down from taillight to door-jamb. I wash it. Oh no. Still there. Microfiber. Oh no, still there. I dont have any of my car care products yet. Well nothing thats any good. I run downstairs and grab an ooooold bottle of McGuires Scratch-X rubbing compound and my last fresh microfiber. Whala! Took that erasor markings right off!
No burn marks, no fade marks, just flawless paint that needs a good claybar to get the very small invisible specs of adhesive left. WOW
I am the amature of amatures, and this was easy!
So I only had time to do the passanger side.
Tomorow when I do the drivers side, Im going to do step by step with pictures that I'll post here. I just had to brag about my failed attempt to ruin a good paint job
Why didn't you just try a hairdryer or a heat gun, that would have worked, a lot less trouble. I happen to like the pinstripe on my G.Originally Posted by G35 Mass
SOOOO COOOL!!!!So I headed down to my closest auto paint supply store, Providence Lacquer in Cranston, Ri. Their main business is auto paint. They also cary the complete lines of Meguire's Professional Detailer and Car Brite products, as well as anything else you might want for auto care. I picked up an erasor wheel, and a roll of no-residue painter's masking tape, which is for my detail job later this week.
This erasor wheel is exactly what it sounds like. A disk made of erasor product! Its supposed to go into some sort of screw-in spining device, a rotary buffer I think. But I'll have none of that. So I strap it into the chuck of my Dewalt corded drill, and start humming away. I start at the right-rear quarter pannel, which is in the worst shape, and if I have to repaint a panel because I burn through the paint, it might as well be this one. It was a little tough to keep the speed down, keep the erasor on target, and keep it from bouncing. I slide from rear to front, ending at the edge of the rear door. Now all I can smell is burned rubber, and all thats on my paint is this marring that looks just like I took a pencil erasor and went up and down from taillight to door-jamb. I wash it. Oh no. Still there. Microfiber. Oh no, still there. I dont have any of my car care products yet. Well nothing thats any good. I run downstairs and grab an ooooold bottle of McGuires Scratch-X rubbing compound and my last fresh microfiber. Whala! Took that erasor markings right off!
No burn marks, no fade marks, just flawless paint that needs a good claybar to get the very small invisible specs of adhesive left. WOW
I am the amature of amatures, and this was easy!
So I only had time to do the passanger side.
Tomorow when I do the drivers side, Im going to do step by step with pictures that I'll post here. I just had to brag about my failed attempt to ruin a good paint job
Eiw, hairdryers are for girly-men!
Little problem on the drivers side. I knew there was a "fade' there, I didnt know they used the pinstrip as a masking line....
Hard to tell, and Im doing a 400 step detail tomorow (if my stuff comes), so we'll see how it comes out then.... looks like it needs a lil wet-sand and re-clear...
Little problem on the drivers side. I knew there was a "fade' there, I didnt know they used the pinstrip as a masking line....
Hard to tell, and Im doing a 400 step detail tomorow (if my stuff comes), so we'll see how it comes out then.... looks like it needs a lil wet-sand and re-clear...