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You may of gathered from my other posts that I generally have a go at most things car related.

The wing I replaced on the Rover got damaged when the drive way wall suddenly clipped me ;)

So I have taken the wing off.

Gave it a good clean. Managed to knock the dent out within about 10mins of careful work with a piece of wood and hammer.

I have sanded the dented area down to bare metal or almost there to get the scrape marks out.

I had some primer in the garage so I have primed this area, just waiting for the first coat to dry.

I will give it a quick sand then do another primer layer.

My question is though is where do I get perfect match paint?

Should I just get a can from Halfords shelf? The car is white so it shouldn't look too bad if it's not 100% perfect.

Also how many coloured coats? 3?

Do I need to laquer after?

Cheers,

Chris
 
I find halfords paint a very good match, they do all the BMC/Rover/BL/Triumph paintcodes so I can get whatever I need in touchup brush or can.

Or you could get them to match it, if you can't find it.

Can't help you with the rest.
 
for my colour coding on focus i did 3 coats of primer (with some light sanding), 5 coats of paint and 3 coats of lacquer.

dont leave too long between coats, 15 mins should be about right.
have you sprayed before? practice on something else first, get a good range of where you need the can to be and do it in sweeping movements.

lacquer is the strongest out of the 3 tins you will be spraying with.

also, you should have checked your using the correct primer for the colour of car, different paint colour = different primer :]
 
I needed white primer and thats what I had in the garage.

Just put the first colour coat on, looks good but I think I sprayed it a little bit too thick.

Will see how it goes. Can always sand it all down and start again, would need more primer though.
 
Hold spray can ~24" away from the surface and sweep from side to side with plenty of overlap. It'll look like it's going on too thin, but once you've built up a good few layers it'll start looking good.

You won't get a perfect colour match either, welcome to the world of slightly different shades on all panels :) My old Escort was great like that.
 
I have sprayed before but only once, it came out ok too :)

Can I speed up the drying process with a hair dryer?

Do I need to laquer with solid paint?
 
not sure, only used metallic :/

no not with a hair dryer, you want even drying across the sprayed area :p
 
no you dont need to laquer rover white, yes i have always found halfords paint matches are good, and yes you can use a hair dryer on moderate heat as long as you keep it moving and only to warm the panel. as you have the wing off ,why not gently heat the inside of the wing with it.? if you get the outside too warm too quickly you will only dry the surface and not the underlying layers.
 
Are you sure about the laquer? The paint looks duller than the rest of the car?

Does it just need a T cut and a wax in a fortnights time to make it the same?
 
Well it was going so well but then the sun went down and it got cold and moisture appeared in an area of the panel :eek:

So there is a odd blotch on the panel. It has wrecked the last layer of paint I did in that area.

So it's indoors now. Tomorrow I will sand down this dodgy patch top layer and then add one more layer.

Chris
 
my piece of advice would be don't try to move the wing once you have laqcuered it. thumb prints for the lose :(. had to sand it all the way back down and respray :(
 
I used Halfords paint on my last Mondeo (state blue) after angle grinding and filling a bit of rust on a wheel arch. Got a pretty spot on finish and even I forgot that it had ever been done, certainly nobody else never noticed.

With this in mind i'd not hesitate to use Halfords paint again.
 
Right, I just had a look at the wing and the paint is flat and not shiny.

Do I just need more layers?

In a week or 2 will a T cut and wax make it looks shiny like the rest of the car.

The best way to describe the finish is like a PC case. That's not shiny.
 
You really need to spray in a warm and dry atmosphere, if it's at all cold the paint will "bloom" and you get a very dull, whitish looking finish.

Get as much paint as you can on there, aerosols have a consistency of water so each coat is very thin compared to a proper spray gun, and when you cut it back you don't want to hit metal on the first polish.
 
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