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May 21, 2012 21:16:03 GMT
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I'm getting close (ish!) to being ready to respray the engine bay on my Polo. Bare metalling is such enormous fun.  I've bought the etch and normal primers but am looking for decent quality top coat aerosol paint. Now I'm well aware the finish is mainly in the prep, but I'm gonna try and do the colour top coats too as primer is obviously porous. However, depending on how it comes out I may end up getting it blown over afterwards by someone with a gun and compressor. So the aerosol paint needs to be single pack, easy to obtain, reasonably priced, of good quality and compatible with a proper gun spray job if needed. Can anyone recommend a product? Halfords colour cans seem expensive, anyone else? Thanks in advance guys. Cheers, Richard. |
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May 21, 2012 21:29:11 GMT
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There is a company in Brighton who do paint to match, but there should be a car paint place near to you somewhere who should be able to do the job. I pay £12 per can (matched) in 1K or Cellulose and I'm in North London.
Any good?Allpaints Ltd.
Unit 25 , Nonsuch Industrial Estate
Epsom
Surrey
KT17 1DH
United Kingdom
0843 261 8749
Capitol Car Paints
57, Winterbourne Rd,
Thornton Heath,
Surrey CR7 7QX
Tel: 020 8684 0303
Hope that helps.
Ken
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Get a quote from a bodyshop first,you'd be surprised how much all those aerosols mount up and the finish will never get anywhere near a pro effort,if you've done 90% of the prep yourself this will significantly lower the cost,by over 1/2 I'd say.
I've had good results with aerosols over the years but a gun finish is chalk and cheese in comparison.
Don't try aerosoling it then decide to get a gun finish as it will react badly unless your sprayer uses waterbased which most don't like and it costs a lot more.
There's so much to go wrong with a spray job and good and bad are like night and day.
I've had my own bodyshop so I know what I'm on about,some of the so called "mint" jobs ive seen are laughable,you get what you pay for.
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sphinx
Part of things
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May 23, 2012 19:03:02 GMT
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Look into the 2-pack aerosols (either lacquer or base obviously); they're mixed up for you once you decide on the colour and contain hardener so they go off nice and hard like proper 2-pack. The base of the cans have a twist pull mechanism that releases the activator into the paint before you start spraying. Once activated they don't last long, maybe 6 hours in cooler temperatures.
I did a 'quick and cheap' job on my mates van once. all the rust was ground down and treated then etch primed, filler primed (blocked down) and finally these 2-pack aerosol cans. Came out pretty good if I say so myself and the paint adhered and dried really well (didn't stay soft for days/week like others).
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May 26, 2012 19:44:21 GMT
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Aerosol spray paints don't last a long time, and I've noticed body shops always give you way less than what you want - I've had less than half full can of 500 ml last week, for 13 quid.
Saying that, I much prefer it over 2pack nowadays as it's such a simple job.
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