picsi did take some pics of the before, and after the first round of sanding. but i did even more sanding than these pics show (especially on the hood which i sanded down almost all of because the actual factory paint job was pretty slipshod and i decided i wanted to redo the entire hood), and i neglected to get any pics of the complete sanding job before i put on the primer yesterday, cuz i got started later in the day than i intended to and i was in a hurry:
Just out of curiosity do you know why they call it restoring when its really just prepping the car and giving it a new paint job? My guess is it simply became nomenclature?i don't see why it wouldn't be called restoring? you are returning or repairing it to its former, original condition.
Are you? It sounds like youre adding primer and paint. Sorry, I take things too literally. I know its probably just semantics, Im just interested in the linguistics part of it all. It looking original is cool, to me, and Im sure it helps its value. But its not like it could be sold advertised as with its original paint job is it? Or am I missing something where you do actually bring the old paint back somehow?wtf are you smoking dude
I'm having my entire car repainted. Never really looked at it as paint restoring. I don't think my painter sees it that way either, and he gets involved with cars from the 60's/70's.i think there's nothing that makes calling it restoring inapplicable, i'm not really sure where the pushback on this is coming from. and it is about the entirety of the car, not just the paint job. it had been sitting unused and neglected for a number of years due to my becoming unemployed and due to my chronic lower back pain worsening in intensity. besides the paint peeling up and the rust, i also had to get a tune-up and get a number of things fixed or replaced, like the brake pads, the tires, the spark plugs. and i still need to get the radiator looked at too because it has a leak. and the passenger side mirror needs to be replaced. and of course i vacuumed out the whole entire and put Armor All on everything and used some carpet cleaner in some problem areas. still have more to do with the carpet cleaner though.
"Restoring" seems more applicable to a work in entirety, exterior and mechanical and interior.
I recall the original topic. I'd say you did a pretty solid job with the sanding. I've helped with body work (which is what I'd call it, even if it's still a restoration, odd hill, anyway lol) but I never got into the painting side of it all since a buddy does that shit for a living.thanks! yeah the sanding was tough but i was ready satisfied with the way it came out. and afterward i gave my car a quick wash, and then wiped it down with acetone on an old t-shirt, which the person at O'Reilly's said would get all of the dust from sanding off, but tbh it still feels kinda gritty to the touch in some places, so i don't think it removed all of it. will smoothing it out with fine sandpaper (i got 1000) get rid of that grittiness, or what? or does the paint or the clear coat do that? i dunno what i'm doing.
Did you make a post about this on reddit? I feel like I saw that picture before.no but i made a previous topic here about it and posted some of those pics. like 4 or 5 days ago.
OP don't pay mind to the CE resident neckbeards giving you a hard time.lol yeah
Should've borrowed or rented a sandblaster. Would've spent significantly less time sanding it.the videos i watched and the guidance on the package of the sanding block and sandpaper all said not to use any powered devices and to do it manually, because i guess you can risk sanding off too much or unevenly if you don't know what you're doing.
Maybe I missed this but what kind of car is it1999 Mercury Sable
Thats a slightly fancier Taurus isnt it?it's the only car i've ever owned lol, and even though i've had to sink about 2 grand in it so far for repairs and re-registration and body work, it's still way cheaper to get it back on the road than to try to find something at a used car lot or whatever. i can't afford much, but i need to get back on the road.
Interesting choice of car to be restoring, I love when people care about regular boring cars
Yeah theyre decent cars, my friend got a 2002 Taurus from his grandparents like 10 years ago and Ive got some good memories cruising around in that thingyeah it's always been reliable for me, at least when i was maintaining it.
Its sanding, priming, and painting it to look like its original condition.yeah, you know the English language has a more concise way of saying all of that in a single word rather than using a whole sentence and listing multiple different words. guess what that word is.
And I was simply asking if you knew why that was. Peace.and i'm saying, it's cuz that's what that word means , lol
I was clearly thinking original condition meant original condition. I mentioned taking things literally.fair enough
Of course.nice! yeah i don't think there's much that can be done with that
Heres the car I found!
https://imgur.com/a/oMe28DU
Should have rented a 2-stage and a air compressor as well as a paint sprayer and a booth. Thank the lord you are doing it in white seeing as you are using rattle cans.my dad has an air compressor, and i'm pretty sure he still has a paint sprayer too. i dunno what a booth is. but i was told rattle cans are the way to go if you don't really know what you're doing or haven't used paint sprayers before.