Jarred
14-12-2007, 09:43 AM
So it looks like I'm going to have to repaint paint my mk 1!
Due to the amount of repairs, (dings and rust) all over the body and the general crappiness of the paint, it is going to be SO difficult to match in the new paint (over the repairs) with the 30 year old original paint.
SO.
It would be easier to just spray over the whole car so I get one colour everywhere. But I have a couple questions.
Firstly, I'm going to keep it the same colour, (so I dont have to spray all the cracks, crevices and engine bay etc) so techinically I don't have to remove the windows, but I would very much like to. So does anyone know how hard it is to remove the front, rear and side windows from a mk 1 3 dr??? preferably without smashing the glass!
Secondly, I am under the impression that I should pop (after sanding the paint back a bit, not to bare metal tho) a layer or two of high fill primer on. This will serve two purposes: I can smooth out the smaller bumps and dings (high fill primer is great for this), and then I will have a consistant base colour, so the top coat is all the one tone and not affected by the different colours underneath (make sense?)
Other people are saying that since it's the same colour, I don't need to spray a primer layer. Is this true?
And finally, how much paint will I need. I will probably only do 2 top coats (in wattle yellow of corse ;) ) so how many litres of paint will I need???
Any help is appreciated!
Jarred
p.s. would it be worth it to spray a clear coat on as well since I've got the whole car masked and everything??
Due to the amount of repairs, (dings and rust) all over the body and the general crappiness of the paint, it is going to be SO difficult to match in the new paint (over the repairs) with the 30 year old original paint.
SO.
It would be easier to just spray over the whole car so I get one colour everywhere. But I have a couple questions.
Firstly, I'm going to keep it the same colour, (so I dont have to spray all the cracks, crevices and engine bay etc) so techinically I don't have to remove the windows, but I would very much like to. So does anyone know how hard it is to remove the front, rear and side windows from a mk 1 3 dr??? preferably without smashing the glass!
Secondly, I am under the impression that I should pop (after sanding the paint back a bit, not to bare metal tho) a layer or two of high fill primer on. This will serve two purposes: I can smooth out the smaller bumps and dings (high fill primer is great for this), and then I will have a consistant base colour, so the top coat is all the one tone and not affected by the different colours underneath (make sense?)
Other people are saying that since it's the same colour, I don't need to spray a primer layer. Is this true?
And finally, how much paint will I need. I will probably only do 2 top coats (in wattle yellow of corse ;) ) so how many litres of paint will I need???
Any help is appreciated!
Jarred
p.s. would it be worth it to spray a clear coat on as well since I've got the whole car masked and everything??