Freshly Painted 86 GTI

[VdubGtivr96]

Before i bought it Prepping
Here i have a freshly painted GTI BLACK
Sorry for Terrible cell phone picture quality

[MiLeenaLee]

Amazing what a little paint can do!

[VdubGtivr96]

Amazing what a little paint can do!

I know man that thing looked terrible when i first got it. but the good thing is i only paid 500 for it. SOWO Bound

[Deadzero2005]

Did you wet sand the car by any chance?

[VdubGtivr96]

ya we sure did before we painted it we wet sanded it like 3 or 4 times. Why may i ask?

[kaferfreak]

do you make housecalls?? lol

[VdubGtivr96]

do you make housecalls?? lol

Haha no we arent the best at it yet this is only the third car we have painted. have to wait thirty days for the paint to set up before sanding and buffing all the impers out. do you make house calls says down in your sig that you do vw service

[VdubGtivr96]

Does anyone know any more tricks of the trade. if so please let me know but i think we have less orange peel than my brand new toyota fj

[kaferfreak]

yes i do make house calls...

[Draddog_nai]

That's a massive improvement. :thumb:

[VdubGtivr96]

Thanks man it was some heap of work glad im finally done bought some new parts at sowo will get some pictures of them on. haha when i get them on

[BoostedDubVR6T420]

Great Job! But I hope you drank all those beer's before you painted.

[VdubGtivr96]

Great Job! But I hope you drank all those beer's before you painted.

Yes Sir i believe there were more than that though. damn it steadys your hand when your painting

[VdubGtivr96]

dont die

[g60vwr]

Does anyone know any more tricks of the trade. if so please let me know but i think we have less orange peel than my brand new toyota fj

Play around with air pressure and reducer temps. Its a fine line but when you find a combination you like stick with it and WRITE IT DOWN. Practice makes better in this situation as with all garage paint jobs you really cant keep one single setting. You have constantly changing variables like temp, humidity, air quality, dirt.

[VdubGtivr96]

ya man we played around with it using 8-4-1 doubling up on it and then adding more reducer and gloss towards the final sprays so it would harden. we really tried to keep out all of the dirt and bugs but you know nothing works. i believe that the bugs are attracted to the smell of the paint. we had two blowers sucking out the excess paint fumes and it took most of the dirt with it. we also put up air filters over the windows to keep airflow and reduce all the bugs and dirt. we did the best we could and i think we did a pretty damn good job. but that is my opinion, and we all know that every one has their own opinion

[SgtMajBilly]

How long did it take to prep?

[ShavedRabbit]

Single Stage i assume?

I'm glad to see another mk2 brought back to life

[VdubGtivr96]

How long did it take to prep?

it took us about three weeks because we werent hard at it every second had to make money to throw at it haha.

and ya it was just a single stage.
i am really anticipating wet sanding and buffing it out.
ill get some more pictures on here i have to wait a week and two days to do the sanding and buffing out

[VdubGtivr96]

[ShavedRabbit]

I have wet-sanded and buffed a single stage car the same day it was painted, but that was after it came out of the booth

[VdubGtivr96]

I have wet-sanded and buffed a single stage car the same day it was painted, but that was after it came out of the booth

Really? Where you using a baker?

[ShavedRabbit]

where as in location? or was that a typo and was it supposed to be were?

i am going to assume it was a typo

yes, it was baked

[VdubGtivr96]

Haha ya sorry that was a typo and i hate when people's grammer is bad. . i didnt have the means of a baker i just set it in the sun for a while which im assuming is not as good as using a baker

[soupy]

Congratulations. Way to bring one back from the dead.

[VdubGtivr96]

Ya thanks my friend. It sure was alot of fun doing it also. did anyone here go to SOWO?

[VdubGtivr96]

[VdubGtivr96]

[Falcon_punch]

Looks good what equipment did you use?