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eastwest2300

Honestly... they do need to be sanded down, sanding them down will allow the primer to stick.. once you shoot it with the primer, you'd wet sand them again, which smoothes out the primer and any imperfections, if done correctly, it'll be silky smooth to the touch.. you let it dry.. then you shoot it with paint. After you shoot it with paint and you let it sit, then you'd shoot it with a clear coat. Let it dry. I'd do 2 layers of clear coat. Then after that, you'd wet sand again with a fine grit wet/ dry sand paper... again it'll be silky smooth to the touch... then after that, you'd go to your buffing compounds for the finish.

That right there is what a professional shop would do, thats what I use to do when I was in Tallahassee, volunteering at this body shop, its where I learned all about it, body work and paint.

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b1adesofcha0s

I did all that already, but I just need to refinish them since they didn't dry properly. Already have primer, paint, clear on there. Everything went smoothly up until we started to paint. The primer went on perfectly and smoothly after we sanded the wheels. The weather just wasn't cooperating for the paint and clear.

I just need to sand it a bit and then 1/2 coats of paint, 2 coats of clear, and the final wet sanding. What do you recommend for buffing compounds? I've never done any buffing before.

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eastwest2300

There's a 3 or 4 step process by 3M you can go with, its expensive though. I know there's a Finish Master shop in college park, I'd google it, and call them, you can buy it from them, you'd need to get the buffing compound and a buffing machine with pads.

Its kinda pricey when you have a shop do it, but this is why. The labor and all the sh1t they spend to do it the right way.

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b1adesofcha0s

Yeah the whole point of doing this myself was for it to be cheap. I mean I don't need a pro quality finish, just something decent.

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b1adesofcha0s

Maybe just some car polish and wax would do the trick to give it a nice shine without spending too much. Do I need to sand before I do this? This would probably be done after the clear dries.

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eastwest2300

You'd wet sand after the clear is on, with a fine grit wet/dry sand paper.

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eastwest2300

I just dont see how the paint didnt stick to the primer.. that doesnt usually happen. Thats very odd.

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b1adesofcha0s

Oh no that's not the problem. The paint did stick to the primer. The problem was that because of the high temps and humidity the paint came out of the spray can weird. I'll try to take a close up pic to show you what I'm talking about.

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dmhenderson

Ok I'll get 6 lbs of wings. That should be enough I think.


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eastwest2300

well if thats the case, you could always strip the paint off, and spray them again indoors. with the windows open, of course.

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b1adesofcha0s

I'm too lazy to do the whole process over. It's not the whole surface of the wheels that the paint is messed up, just certain spots here and there.

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Cristobal09

why did you even take the plasti dip off the wheels shahid?

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Masa

They got shredded off when he got tires mounted lol.

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eastwest2300

It just sounds like the plastidip way seems soo much easier and less of a hassle then trying to paint them. Albeit its not as durable as paint.

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chieuxuan

One thing that every body forgets is get a cordless drill, a socket driver and a 10mm socket, that will make things way faster. I may be there, not sure though.