Touch-up Advice?

[blinkme323]

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!

[Murr1525]

Re: Touch-up Advice?

Do you want it perfect, or just asking to make sure no more damage will happen?

[blinkme323]

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.

[Murr1525]

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.

[blinkme323]

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.

I think I'll go ahead and do that then, maybe add another layer or two and then wet sand and polish.

[Mike Phillips]

Re: Touch-up Advice?

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