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    Touch-up Advice?

    Hey guys, I recently touched up a small, 3in scrape that I had on the bottom of my car. I layered the paint pretty well and put a light coating of clear on top. However, upon further inspection, the paint still isn't perfectly level with the surrounding area, it is still recessed a little bit. My question is, how should I proceed from here? Should I layer on some more paint and then wet sand the area and finish with more clear? It's dark out now, or I would post a pic. But the scrape is very thin and penetrated to the primer.

    Thanks for the help!
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    Re: Touch-up Advice?

    Do you want it perfect, or just asking to make sure no more damage will happen?
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      Re: Touch-up Advice?

      I'd like to get it as close to perfect as possible, I'm just not sure what steps I should take from here.

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        Re: Touch-up Advice?

        If you want to be able to sand and level it, you will have to make it a bit of a blob above the regular surface level. As small and neat of a blob as possible of course, but at least a little above the surface.

        Since you are already at the clear, you will want to use more of the clear.

        Wet-Sanding and compounding can be a bit more advanced of course, but you would want the highest Uni-Grit paper possible, and then UC/#105. Hopefully if you do a neat, small blob, you can just start with a high grit paper like 2500 or so and stay there.
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          Re: Touch-up Advice?

          Originally posted by Murr1525 View Post
          If you want to be able to sand and level it, you will have to make it a bit of a blob above the regular surface level. As small and neat of a blob as possible of course, but at least a little above the surface.

          Since you are already at the clear, you will want to use more of the clear.

          Wet-Sanding and compounding can be a bit more advanced of course, but you would want the highest Uni-Grit paper possible, and then UC/#105. Hopefully if you do a neat, small blob, you can just start with a high grit paper like 2500 or so and stay there.
          I think I'll go ahead and do that then, maybe add another layer or two and then wet sand and polish.

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            Re: Touch-up Advice?

            Click the below link it will take you to what are called "Popular Tags"

            http://meguiarsonline.com/forums/tags.php



            Now click on any tag that has to do with touch-up paint or rock-chip repair and then read the related threads.



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