[ryanw]

[NoColoradoGT]

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[86_Notch]

That jeep looks great man. Here's my cheapo maaco special paint job. FWIW It hasn't been buffed or waxed cause I'm too cheap and lazy.

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After

[cleangtvert]

damn i'm kinda laughing my ass off at this thread. kinda a wierd pissing match!
ok it seems by some of the posts that some people might think this is a rattle can paint job. if thats you than take some time reading the link i posted above from moparts!
to the guy that wants to know how to do this ....i suggest the same advice!
i wouldnt do it to a car i wanted to keep though. you can get several years of 20 footer good looking paint job, but its not going to hold up at the car show!

[ryanw]

Originally Posted by 86_Notch That jeep looks great man. Here's my cheapo maaco special paint job. FWIW It hasn't been buffed or waxed cause I'm too cheap and lazy. Before After

That does look nice...ive had a bad exsperience with macco. both me and my dad had our cars painted through them.(my old 85gt and his audi) both cars started flaking paint on the center of the hood, and when it flaked off it showed bare metal ( no primer to be seen) took it back they repainted the hood, a few months later, the same thing happened.

my brother took his 66 nova to earl schib, he went out and bought some high quality white paint and droped it off to them to be used on his car,( keep in mind he striped the car down to just the body, so he wanted it panted inside and out) a week later he returns and they say that they ran out of his paint.( the out side was 100% painted and the inside was 1/4 painted) but my brother knew that he gave them enough paint to do every thing. as he was driving away he notice that the owner of that shop had the same paint color on his 280z. The owner ripped my brother off and used his paint....but what they did paint looked good..... lol

[WickedSnake00]

Originally Posted by FastStang91Lx Also, if you talk about wetsanding out to 3000, maybe you need to learn how to use your machine better, with better product and materials. Anything above 2 is wasting your time, so that showed me your experience right there.

I see nothing wrong with using 3000. I use 3M Trizac 3000 grit pads wet after 1500/2000 grit on clear. It makes the buffing process so much easier and much better results.

EDIT:
Also, mark it on the wall, because this may be the one and only time I agree with Noco.

Originally Posted by cleangtvert to the guy that wants to know how to do this ....i suggest the same advice! i wouldnt do it to a car i wanted to keep though. you can get several years of 20 footer good looking paint job, but its not going to hold up at the car show!

This pretty much sums it up. No doubt in my mind the paint job will hold up, but it's going to be a 10-20ft paint job. I'm also kind of iffy on how well this will work on plastic bumpers. I doubt your general enamel has the correct composition for flexible bumpers.

No shame in doing this job if you have lots of time and no money, but don't go expecting a 10/10 paint job.

[zinsavage123]

wow really!?

[bennyjet846]

I heard some real bad horror stories from maaco and earl shieb as well. i had a old honda accord back in the days, bought it off from some guy, when i bought it, the paint was not even a year old. looked great. about year and a half owning the car, the paint started chipping. i guess you get what you pay for though. there's a special going on, 300 bucks to paint your car. lol

[FastStang91Lx]

My buddy has used the same 3k pads as well, but it's really not timesaving at all. Once you clean up again before buffing, you could have just made another couple passes with the buffer. Each to their own.

[86_Notch]

Originally Posted by bennyjet846 I heard some real bad horror stories from maaco and earl shieb as well. i had a old honda accord back in the days, bought it off from some guy, when i bought it, the paint was not even a year old. looked great. about year and a half owning the car, the paint started chipping. i guess you get what you pay for though. there's a special going on, 300 bucks to paint your car. lol

That's about what I paid them for mine