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Repainting Front Bumper help

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eclipsemn13

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Sep 1, 2003
LAke Como, New Jersey
I had body filled my front emblem and filled in my front liscence plate holes. The body fill is working great but paint job i did is really crappy. Any help on repainting it. I have a air spray gun. Where to put tape, how many coats of paint and clear i will need, when and what grit sand paper to use, we or dry paper, basically i need a full lesson.
 
I'm not sure about all the right steps, but if you have a decent amount of paint/clear on the car you could wetsand it by hand starting with 800 grit to get the rough stuff out, then quickly move to 1000 and up to 2000, then power polish it and have it come out like glass. Wetsanding is a skill that requires alot of pratice. I tried it for the first time last year as I was in the same jam. I repainted my front kit but only had spraybombs at the time, so it was orange peel galore. Wetsanded it and it turned out beautiful, minus two skuffs where I went too deep.
 
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