Many Body Questions due to 4 crappy previous owners

[bubba]

Right but his is painted thought!

Correction... just buffed.. no sanding.

 

[Brett]

paint the mirrors yourself or buy some from a jy.

Same w/ the bumper, it'll be hard to find a perfect one but if u look around you'll find one in better shape then yours and cheaper then it'd cost to have yours fixed and sprayed.

The hood and fender will buff out.

The rust bubbles in the rear will look worse IMO if u sand blast and use touch up paint. it needs to be blended, this can be done to an extent with an aerosol can but u get what u pay for. personally if u cant afford to have it done professionally id leave it be until u can.

 

[Wakeboy1337]

I KNEW IT!!! My co-worker told me about it so I went and saw it after work. Drove it around for about an hour and the lady there told me $3000 cash or $5500 buy here pay here so I left it. It seemed to drive well but i wasn't paying that for it. Hope it starts behaving for you.

HAHA!!! Nice to know someone who has driven my SHO :laugh_ti:

When we test drove it it didnt seem to do that well, We could tell the trans. might be going out soon and the paint job didnt look great. Also they never told us they wanted 3000 for it. Are you sure they didnt have another green gen 2? We picked up this one at the end of May.


EDIT: How would you all recommend buffing the fender and hood out?

 

[green95]

Its the same one. I did notice the trans was shifting a little hard, thats part why i passed. When I drove it, they had just gotten it and said they planned to do reconditioning to it. I could tell the paint wasnt the best but it was raining. Did they ever replace the sunroof seal? Since you came to Avon Park once, if you go a few more miles south I can get my friend to look at your car and give you an estimate on the paint repairs. I've seen his work and its amazing.

 

[Wakeboy1337]

They never fixed the sunroof seals. And I cant take the car that far away to have it painted. its like an hour and a half or 2 from where i live.

 

[Wakeboy1337]

Got in a Fender Bender

Got in a Fender Bender Sunday night. Really messed up the front bumper Cover and I destroyed he bumper under it. Decided it would be a good chance to practice my painting skill. I have to say, This came out really good for What it was. Looks Good enough to do the whole car in it imo. We'll see how the bumper looks in a couple of weeks. :sun:

Remember, the bumper had this sratch in the plastic.



I understand this isnt an exact match, it's the best I could do for whatever aftermarket paint they used. But how did it come out? Good enough for paint a car? I do plan on waxing in a couple of days after the paint hardens a little more.

 

[93rev2sev]

At eighty cents an ounce, I would not paint the whole car with Dupli-Color Perfect Match. It's decent looking paint for a rattle can, but it'll end up more expensive than you might be thinking.

 

[Wakeboy1337]

Ehhh. That is true :-/

 

[elarm1]

When you get it repainted if you ever do, they will have to strip all that spray paint off the car before they paint it. Where as they would have just ruffed it up then sprayed it.

 

[Wakeboy1337]

Why is that? If you dont me asking?

 

[HotRodKid]

because spray paint is garbage really. all of it is duplicolor, rustoleum, whatever brand name you can think off its all garbage when compared to any paint that needs to be mixed with catalyzers and reducers and then sprayed from specialized equipment.

do a real paint job over a spray paint job and it will never hold up. either the spray paint will curdle before the job is dry, or it will start blowing off the car as soon as it starts to rock chip.

and i really do mean blowing off the car, it can come off in sheets due to air pressure

at the dealer, the most we would ever rattle can was mirrors or small trim bits. touch up color coat from parts dept, PPG clear coat. But thats different

 

[93rev2sev]

Not only that, but there are technical reasons the rattle can stuff has to come off before getting a real paint job.

Real 2-part paint is pretty harsh. As soon as it comes into contact with the car, it will start to dissolve the duplicolor. At BEST it will make the duplicolor soft, at worst, it will act just like paint stripper and make it wrinkle and lift right off of the substrate.

Rattle can "dries"; it can be made "wet" again by the solvents in the real paint

Real paint "cures" and becomes a protective sheet of plastic; a lot less susceptible to being dissolved.

 

[sperold]

Keep going, and tidy up the car the best you can for the money you have.
For not knowing what colour was resprayed before you got the car, you did a pretty good job of matching the bumper.
Carry on and keep improving the looks, even if it is a spraycan job. Chances are, you will be the last owner of this SHO, so you will remember where the paint has to come off if you ever win the lottery.
The parts you have fixed, look an awful lot better than they were before.

 

[93whiteatx]

Man. that clear on the rest of the car was DUSTED on and i mean DUSTED lol. I'd find out who repainted it and ask them wtf they were smoking that week.

 

[93rev2sev]

I just sprayed an engine compartment with single stage PPG Shopline (JAU) Direct Gloss and I would challenge you to tell the difference between that and real base-clear.

I'm extremely impressed.

I used a 3 gallon pancake compressor and a detail spray gun...there was plenty of air... and holy crap this stuff flows out nice.

I bet you could go panel by panel this way and get a VERY nice looking finish.

Just don't try to spray it over dupli-crap (I'm calling it crap now since I found out how sweet PPG shopline JAU is..).

One pint of paint was more than enough to get 3 coats on the entire engine compartment. It's mixed 4(paint)-1(hardener)-1(reducer), so one pint is good for 24 ounces of spray.