Help with paint...

[Boss 351]

I got ripped off with my paint job so I'm either going to tackle this myself (rent a paint shop for a weekend) or at least buy my material and hire a reputable painter to apply the paint, but I will do the door jams and engine bay...

Now I'm researching the paint companies. Currently my car is painted with a cheap mix of Urethane "1-step" paint that appears black but is brownish burgandy (I was supposed to get black basecoat + clearcoat with blue pearl). I want a real nice blue for the 'stang.

So any paint experts in here? A lot of people paint with PPG in my area but I'm looking into buying materials from either: PPG, Dupont, House of Kolor, Sherwin Williams... I don't care about the cost since this time around I will have a good painter.

 

[eeh1025]

Hey there
first thing, have you ever painted before? If not i would really consider just hiring somebody to do it and you buy the stuff, as for paint dupont,vtec, and house of kolors are great paints, When you said your looking for a blue stang did you mean the whole car, if so your chose of a black base and clear with blue pearl will not give you that affect, I just did a job for someone about 2 weeks ago, i used house of kolor paint, i did a matalic silver base, a sick flame job on top of that(just and outline) and a candy blue top and clear, If you have anymore questions post em

 

[CJMcLean]

Who did you use, so we can avoid them like the plague?

 

[illwood]

I've had good luck shooting the BASF Diamont paint series.

You have to try to make the base coat run.

(Don't try with the clear, 'cause you will succeed)

 

[Boss 351]

Don't worry he will be out of business soon, he has the enviro police after him... for some reason "unkown" to me.

eeh1025, I've painted before but I prefer someone who does this often as to not waste the expensive paint.

That's the thing, at first the guy said he'd do black basecoat, clear with some blue pearl. But instead I got a cheap gallon of 1-step Urethane based paint (not even pure black) which will be a bitch to sand down to prevent the new coat from "crinkling" or whatever it's called.

I have the feeling I will have to chemically strip the paint right down to metal and sandblast the hard to get areas? I hope not, I will wait for this winter before starting the bodywork again.

The car was white and on original paint when I brought it to the "paintshop", he put that chit everywhere, in the engine bay, under the hood, door jams, hatch, etc... I brought the car in pieces with no glass or anything for a real good job! If I would have known things would turn like this I would have painted it myself and have less defects and put the extra cash in a blower or something fun like that. I say I want a nice blue now because I just want a lighter color and leaving the car black will remind me too much of this stupid "deal".If anyone would have offered $1000 or even $500 in person for the entire project yesterday, I would have let it all go.