Hi all,
I’m just finishing up a restoration on a 1968 Mercedes 300SEL. The car was painted on October 23rd and the painter has done a terrible job (IMO). There’s a lot of dirt in the paint, heavy orange peel on the lower panels, and a run in the paint on the roof. I’m challenging this with the painter, but it doesn’t seem to be getting me anywhere.
I realise that this isn’t going to be a show car paint job, regardless of what I do to correct it… but I’d like to have a go at removing as many of the nibs as I can, the run on the roof, and also getting rid of some of the heavier peel. Any improvement would be better.
My intial thoughts were to wet sand (by hand) each nib, then use a 3 step process to get rid of the wet sand marks. I’ll be wet-sanding (by hand) the run in the roof using a block, and taking it slowly with 1000>1500>2000 grit.
Given there are so many nibs on the car, I’m now thinking that using my DA with the appropriate pads might be a better option. I only have a DA, so any recommendations on pads/compounds should keep this in mind.
I know this is a mequiars site, so don’t want to post up too much unrelated stuff, however I did get a pad/liquid kit via a local vendor containing Scholl products. Basically I’ve got;
Scholl Concepts S3 Gold Compound
Scholl Concepts S17+ Medium Compound
Scholl Concepts S30+ Nano Polish
Scholl Concepts S40 Finishing Polish
6” Backing Plate and Scholl Orange, Yellow, Blue and Black pads.
I was considering bypassing wet-sanding altogether and using the CarPro Denim pads on a 5” backing plate, as they seem to get good results on a DA at levelling peel… just not sure if you can attack nibs in the same “bulk” method, or if you have to treat them individually…
Would the 3000 sanding discs work in this situation? Given they are foam backed, does this mean they won’t be useful for the nibs? I know this won’t help much when it comes to the peel, as the foam backed discs will follow the texture of the current paint.
I’ve been researching the Unigrit system, 3m’s Trizact system, CarPro’s Denim Pads + various compounds (M101 seems to be the favourite)… just not sure which way to go. I guess the fewer steps the better, so any advice is welcome.
Cheers,
Pete.
I’m just finishing up a restoration on a 1968 Mercedes 300SEL. The car was painted on October 23rd and the painter has done a terrible job (IMO). There’s a lot of dirt in the paint, heavy orange peel on the lower panels, and a run in the paint on the roof. I’m challenging this with the painter, but it doesn’t seem to be getting me anywhere.
I realise that this isn’t going to be a show car paint job, regardless of what I do to correct it… but I’d like to have a go at removing as many of the nibs as I can, the run on the roof, and also getting rid of some of the heavier peel. Any improvement would be better.
My intial thoughts were to wet sand (by hand) each nib, then use a 3 step process to get rid of the wet sand marks. I’ll be wet-sanding (by hand) the run in the roof using a block, and taking it slowly with 1000>1500>2000 grit.
Given there are so many nibs on the car, I’m now thinking that using my DA with the appropriate pads might be a better option. I only have a DA, so any recommendations on pads/compounds should keep this in mind.
I know this is a mequiars site, so don’t want to post up too much unrelated stuff, however I did get a pad/liquid kit via a local vendor containing Scholl products. Basically I’ve got;
Scholl Concepts S3 Gold Compound
Scholl Concepts S17+ Medium Compound
Scholl Concepts S30+ Nano Polish
Scholl Concepts S40 Finishing Polish
6” Backing Plate and Scholl Orange, Yellow, Blue and Black pads.
I was considering bypassing wet-sanding altogether and using the CarPro Denim pads on a 5” backing plate, as they seem to get good results on a DA at levelling peel… just not sure if you can attack nibs in the same “bulk” method, or if you have to treat them individually…
Would the 3000 sanding discs work in this situation? Given they are foam backed, does this mean they won’t be useful for the nibs? I know this won’t help much when it comes to the peel, as the foam backed discs will follow the texture of the current paint.
I’ve been researching the Unigrit system, 3m’s Trizact system, CarPro’s Denim Pads + various compounds (M101 seems to be the favourite)… just not sure which way to go. I guess the fewer steps the better, so any advice is welcome.
Cheers,
Pete.
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