what happens if i were to spray an enamel based clear over this?

 

i told you to smoke em... next step is get rid of that amber side marker...

you really should have taken them off of the car, it only takes about 20mins, which is probably what it took to tape up those towels.. you also should sand it first.

Now that you smoked them wetsand with a high fine grit and then you automotive compound and then use polish. Car polish makes dull tails extremely shiny. Keep it up.

 

oh yea and clearcoat it before you sand, and polish

 

It should do the same job protecting the paint. It might not be as glossy as you want (that's what happened to me when I used enamel clear coat on a lacquer paint the first time I tinted a set of tails from the junkyard). Personally I suggest using the lacquer clear coat on a lacquer based paint. 2 cans of Duplicolor Acrylic Lacquer Clear go for about $9.75-$10.

 

i've got my tails in the garage drying after their 3rd coat of the tint, next up is clear coat.

 

oh and i got 'model master' stuff, they didn't have the pactra tint, but they had everything else pactra, lol, the model master is the only tint one they had, guy asked me if i was doing tail lights when i checked out lol

 

Well I sprayed the clear and now they're just dull. I used rubbing compound to try and make them shiney but no go. What do I need? >.<

 

Did you wet sand after you applied the clear? Buffing with rubbing compound by hand or machine. I told you which clear to use. But which one did you go with?

 

I got 2 interiors to paint tomorrow. Bring your tails by and I'll do them. BUSY day tomorrow!

 

hey did fab aka hyperwhite stop by your place today too ken?

 

No. The only white tC I saw today was the one that drove by while we were installing your VRDs.

 

yeah i saw that too, but you said you have two interiors to paint. mine and who elses?

 

Said's

 

again? wth did he do to it this time?

 

wow i love the color of the car, gray flat thats soooo sickkkk

 

i seem to have misplaced my 2000grit wet/dry sand paper... which is annoying... i'll be doing that before my club meet tonight, can't show up with dull tails...

 

Nope I just used the rubbing compound after I shot the clear. I guess that would explain why it didn't get shiney haha. I'm buffing my hand too. I'm gonna go get some 2000 grid wetsand paper today and re clear the tails then buff some more

 

and then after the wetsanding use some turtle wax polish. It comes in a bottle that looks like the wax but it has a red top instead of a white one. A few uses of the polish will give them a mirror finish providing you wetsanded them...

 

i dont see why people dont follow flea's diy, i did and they came out just like his

 

check it out. I did mine today.

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