Car Spraying..

[The MoffMeister]

Hi all im thinking about trying to give my car a respray and have seen it doen but not done it and thinking with the right equipment it surely cant be that hard??

I'd remove the bumpers, side skirts, spoiler and indicators, lights etc etc.

Now what is roughly involved in doing this and how much would i be looking at if i brought the kit for it as im really wanting to do it myself. I would be keeping the colour artic silver so its less hassle!!

cheers all

 

[DPJ]

It's not hard to make a right mess of it. Leave it to the pros!

 

[UncleFester]

lol Agreed ... unless you've got a nice clean ( make that surgically clean) environment you'll never get a finish that you'll love.

I did my old metro years ago with halfrauds spray tins, the original paint was so shockingly bad that i couldn't fail to make an improvement. I don't think the Leon falls into the same category!

 

[The MoffMeister]

i wasnt talking about spray cans proper spray gun and generator etc to make it a good job as for cleaniness i'd be getting a gazebo type of thing with 4 walls and make it nice and clean inside etc

 

[F2 Stu]

even so, unless you got all the gear and the know, leave to the pro's

 

[ramnation]

I'm currently trying the same thing, i've bought everything that i need and just have to get off my arse and do it now, i found a link on the Halfords website which might be of use to you as well.

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/..._productId_171905_langId_-1_p1_38270_p2_31276

 

[The MoffMeister]

cheers for that but im after doing iit properly with a compressor spray gun as the pro's do really considering it

 

[ArosaRacer]

dont do it rob is a complete ass of a job and also they've changed from solvent to water based paints now!

 

[F2 Stu]

For once the little fella is the voice of reason.

 

[The MoffMeister]

o ok for once i may listen then lol anyone know good and not to exspensive sprayers then?

 

[F2 Stu]

Tris's mate who paints the Motabase Toledos?

 

[The MoffMeister]

will ask him then cheers stu

 

[m0rk]

but motorsport paint jobs won't be up to the standard you want..... after all - it'll only need to last a weekend

 

[The MoffMeister]

they that bad then mork, well i'll look arouind for opinions and stuff