[mcqueen]

So one of my side scoops looks like hell. A buddy of mine (gf's sister's bf) works at a body shop and grabbed a replacement off a wrecked GT a while back and it's just been sitting around since it was black and my car is white. Well yesterday I decided to change that..

Before:


Currently:


So far I think it's coming along ok but I'm getting some small bumps in the paint and I've got some black specks that are showing up. It's around 10 degrees outside so I basically run out to the garage, spray on a coat (rattle cans ftw), and bring it back inside to dry. Here's a shitty camera phone pic of the specks:


They're kind of contained in small areas. I'm planning on wetsanding before I clear coat to get rid of the bumps but do you think that would take car of the specks at all? Or should I wetsand then do one coat of paint over to possibly cover the black specks. I was hoping the last coat of paint would cover them but they showed up again..

Edit: The specks are much less noticeable as the paint drys, but I can still see them when it's dry.

[6ER THEN I 8ER!]

did you wet sand between each coat?

either way i'd sand and coat another time before clear just to make sure

[sickfox]

Originally Posted by 6er_w/a_Vengance did you wet sand between each coat? either way i'd sand and coat another time before clear just to make sure

+1

wet sand in between each coat, and also did you prep it before paint?

Its really hard to tell anything in those pics as far as the specs.

[mcqueen]

Sorry about the pics, all I've got is the camera on my phone. Yes, I prepped before I started painting, sanded between coats of primer, and sanded between the first 2 coats of paint. I've put 2 or so on since then and I can still slightly see the areas where I got a little deep with the sandpaper so I've been afraid to go at it again until I get some finer sandpaper.

[sickfox]

are the spots indented? Like the paint not sticking to the plastic? Or is it something in the paint.

[mcqueen]

They're actually bumped outward. I let the paint dry the entire time I went to work so I just ran my hand over it and some of the specks actually came off and didn't take any paint with them. Some of them are on there a little better though but I think it's just going to take some wet sanding to get it smoothed out. Gah, I don't know how Menards ran out of all the sandpapers I needed, but the sand papers shipped today (bought them through Amazon) and I'm already getting impatient