Painting the under side of a car

Roger · Post by **Roger** » Fri Dec 02, 11 8:23 pm

autofetish wrote:3m stone chip it is then

Use the smooth varint, which isn't smooth, but much smoother than the textured stuff.

autofetish · Post by **autofetish** » Mon Dec 05, 11 12:24 am

sinny wrote:What about using POR15? (just to through the cat amongst the pigeons!)

This has to be the stuff for rear leaf spring or ????

powder coat is best ???

74challenger318 · Post by **74challenger318** » Mon Dec 05, 11 12:48 am

autofetish wrote:I noticed you also used a clear coat to Bananarama! off am i also better to do this ??

you wont need a clear coat unless your doing it in basecoat, if its a straight non mettalic colour just paint your 2k over the stone chip, you can thin your stone chip down a bit if you want it to flow out better for a smoother finish.

morgan · Post by **morgan** » Wed Dec 21, 11 8:45 am

For what its worth I por15'd my box sections and used spray on 'stoneguard' on the rest. Car doesnt really go out in the wet anyway, and the object of my exercise was to assess what I had and protect ongoing (luckily it was all pretty solid, but that was just luck really).

Looks pretty nice (not as nice as yours, but pretty good for a 'scraped-it-off-by-hand-on-my-back-under-car' job)

Looking good Wil !

sinny · Post by **sinny** » Wed Dec 21, 11 1:43 pm

Looks good Morgan. I'll be doing mine over the Christmas holiday & am going down the Metal Ready & POR15 route.

AllKiller · Post by **AllKiller** » Wed Dec 21, 11 2:08 pm

It took the guy with the Pink Challenger a week to scrape the underside before he painted it...all laying on his back...ouch

I removed everything under my car Sand blasted the under side and all parts powder coated the lot in black, so glad i did still looks nice after 15 + years never have to touch it

Then Stone proofed the underside in black virtually bullet proof....stones are no problem.