Subject	Out of sheer curiosity how bad is your paint right now?
Posted by	Seafordguy on March 15, 2007 at 9:21 AM
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In Reply To	Painting your own car... posted by Nismo_Gizmo on March 15, 2007 at 08:26 AM
Message	Might it be worth it to get the car assembled and running how you like it, put a year's worth of mileage on it and then worry about a nice paint job. Disclaimer - this is NOT a hate message (unlike our exchange yesterday). ERIC 90TT - 107k miles 92NA Slicktop - 165k miles 90NA Auto 177k miles - (Wrecked) - NA-TT Swap, Auto to 5Sp Swap candidate (as soon as I sell the other two to fund it) 94RX7 R2 - 26k miles 2002 Jaguar XJR 1998 Wrangler TJ
Follow Ups	Painting your own car... - Nismo_Gizmo 08:26:38 03/15/07 take it to a body shop <-- best advice anyone can give you (n/m) - ZEngineer 08:32:39 03/15/07 2nd. (n/m) - Aqualung 09:41:41 03/15/07 Go to Eastwood.com and buy their tutorial videos (n/m) - Technomancer 08:33:02 03/15/07 there's no way a rookie can pull off a PEARL paint job - ZEngineer 08:38:35 03/15/07 agreed - awesom-o 08:50:13 03/15/07 2nd - zachttu (Lubbock) 10:15:41 03/15/07 From Eastwood's site - Technomancer 13:35:24 03/15/07 GFY (n/m) - Adam (NoVA) 09:19:24 03/15/07 Thanks! - Scotts94z32 13:05:32 03/15/07 Out of sheer curiosity how bad is your paint right now? - Seafordguy 09:21:28 03/15/07 you were more than patient with him and the other kid - ZEngineer 09:33:15 03/15/07 HA - I'd forgotten about that. I really was trying to be - Seafordguy 09:38:41 03/15/07 I especially enjoyed his counter-argument - ZEngineer 10:09:56 03/15/07 If i thought he was referring to me with that, i would have - Nismo_Gizmo 10:25:34 03/15/07 (He was referring to SeaFORDguy) (n/m) - TT XTZ 10:37:40 03/15/07 *never went to (n/m) - Adam (NoVA) 12:21:05 03/15/07 sigh....good times. (n/m) - Seafordguy 10:48:49 03/15/07 Get a porter cable polisher and take a look at these pics of - whatsthegoodword 09:32:31 03/15/07 What kind of compound did you use with that? (n/m) - Broke_as_**** 10:04:19 03/15/07 Portercable w/3m finesse it rubbing compound. It's a very - whatsthegoodword 11:13:45 03/15/07 What most people leave out is the fact that.... - 1badz32 (MN) 10:12:32 03/15/07 just take it to the paint shop...just my opinion - z_trbl_mkr 11:15:30 03/15/07 invest 3-500$ in the skool of hard knocks.... - 1badz32 (MN) 09:46:52 03/15/07 more like 3-5 years - Adam (NoVA) 12:22:24 03/15/07 Re: Painting your own car... - canyoncarver 10:05:11 03/15/07 You will spend almost as much doing it yourself. Before - ZTicket(Dallas) 10:08:56 03/15/07 dont forget about the paint sprayer. - zachttu (Lubbock) 10:13:18 03/15/07 so whats my best bet from here? - Nismo_Gizmo 10:30:04 03/15/07 i just really think that you will not be happy - zachttu (Lubbock) 10:46:54 03/15/07 a body shop wont have problems matching paint... - Ted(Snowflake Customs) 11:51:25 03/15/07 I've done this before.... read... - Ted(Snowflake Customs) 11:02:50 03/15/07 ^^^^ enough reason for me to pay someone to do it (n/m) - zachttu (Lubbock) 12:38:30 03/15/07 Holy wow. Painting is crazy hard. :( (n/m) - CaliguyPurdue (redesigning) 13:31:25 03/15/07 Re: I've done this before.... read... - Nismo_Gizmo 14:28:14 03/15/07 I say try it! - BlackRyuji 12:58:42 03/15/07 Wanna buy my paint gun? - NisBo 04:43:18 03/16/07
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