Ok as you guys know my best mate and myself have been fabricating vents and spraying my bonnett and the end result was looking gorgeous, but I came to my Z the following day and overnight the paint has lost it's glass look and has gone all speckely, textured and feels very rough too touch in fact if you touch it, it leaves your fingure mark embedded in the laquer as i found out when i put my hand on the bonnett earlier... :slap:

 

We don't quiet understand what went wrong because it's all happened over night in the cool night air... Should we have left in the Z in a dry garage over night??? :confused:

 

Ok we've obviosuly gotta do it again this week and understand I now gotta sand it all down with 1200 grit but need to know and help in the times needed between spraying the car and applying the laquer afterwards...

 

Originally we sprayed the car in 2 pac paint and then put the laquer on pretty much straight afterwards but think he only put a thin coating of laquer on... I can't remember which type of laquer we used I understand you can get 2pac laquer now as well.

 

Would this have caused the orange peel effect because the laquer sprayed wasn't thick enough or we used the wrong type of laquer with 2 pac paint or should we have left the paint to dry for a certain time before applying the laquer afterwards... It's really weird as the car was fine driving home and the laquer was touch dry, it all happend overnight in the outside air...

 

Please help, ideally we would like to know:

 

1: How long we should leave the paint to set before applying the laquer coat afterwards.

 

2: How many coats of laquer we should apply after spraying the red paint.

 

3: Standing times between the finished end result with paint and laquer before I can use the Z again.

 

Thank you most gratefully to anyone who can help as I'm feeling really down and gutted at the moment because it was looking great and now it's all turned to shit...

 

Here are the pics...

 

Close up of the orange peeled textured laquer...

 

 

The overall specled effect...

 

im well impressed. fancy doing mine? lol

im well impressed. fancy doing mine? lol

 

Oi I'm buttering him up first wait your turn :slap: :rofl: :rofl:

after you sprayed the lacquer, did you leave the car straight away or did you wait a while.. im asking as if it was a reaction it would normally happen quite quick. i still think condensation has formed on the top. then the lacquer hardens in the same shape as the condensation. i painted a bootlid a few weeks back, left it in the back yard. come down next morning to see condensation on it. didnt think anything was wrong until the water evaporated. the marks on yours look quite deep tho as if a reaction has taken place

i asked first, dont you know shy boys get nowt. direct and straight to the point

Are they just cossie copy vents???. Thet do look the muts.

 

Yep I did mean drip trays for when it rains.

 

There actually Jaguar XKR Vents which I got from Luke at the Z center... The only difference is we blended them in cause most people just stick em on top and done with it...

I'm certainly not shy just more suttle and diplomatic. Quite fancy a wekend in Cornwall. Get some mate in St Columbe.

after you sprayed the lacquer, did you leave the car straight away or did you wait a while.. im asking as if it was a reaction it would normally happen quite quick. i still think condensation has formed on the top. then the lacquer hardens in the same shape as the condensation. i painted a bootlid a few weeks back, left it in the back yard. come down next morning to see condensation on it. didnt think anything was wrong until the water evaporated. the marks on yours look quite deep tho as if a reaction has taken place

 

We left the car just over 2 hours after the laquer went on and it was still looking fine... We then unmasked hence the last 2 photos with it looking good and then I drove home... Came to it the next morning and the horror had happened!!! I guess we should have just left it in the dry garage overnight... I was too quick off the mark and impatient to get home! That'll teach me! :slap:

I'm certainly not shy just more suttle and diplomatic. Quite fancy a wekend in Cornwall. Get some mate in St Columbe.

 

Give me a shout when your down bud and we'll meet up for a pint...

ive been paintin for years pal, and so long as you get the correct variant you cant go wrong, i'm using a lot of water base now and it been a learnin curve all over again, the metalics your refering to are a dual blend paint and there shit cause you cant build to get your desired shade of colour.

ok pal, just trying to offer an opinion based on the 10 years I spent working for ICI autocolour :rolleyes:

I Think I was misunderstood, I was trying to look at the easiest way for the lad to get the best results from the way he was doing the job. I been spraying for over 20years so I know a thing or two. Yes some cars do have clear coat over the colour but if the cars had a solid colour re-pray it’s unlikely the car will have a clear top coat.

 

Hope you get it sorted m8

 

Paul

Hope you get it sorted m8

 

Thanks Paul... :bow: