[P1et]

Originally Posted by Dontsleeponit

anyone else care to add anything on this?

Great work on the wetsanding my friend, I would not have the donkey's to do that to my truck!!!

[Dontsleeponit]

Originally Posted by P1et

Great work on the wetsanding my friend, I would not have the donkey's to do that to my truck!!!

lol dude you are the 3rd person in this thread to think that I did the wetsanding...

you guys must need your

[ehuth1]

haha walked right into that one....

[D&D Auto Detailing]

Haha, wow.

I dont think Id do it unless you had lots of practice and a gauge.

[trhland]

joe great job on the wet sanding wow!!!!! that came out great!!!!!!!!!!

[Dontsleeponit]

Originally Posted by trhland

joe great job on the wet sanding wow!!!!! that came out great!!!!!!!!!!

[Nica]

hahahahahahahaha that's funny...everyone things that you did it hahahahahaa...lol...

I would have to agree with Asphalt Rocket, if your planning on keeping the vehicle for a long time I wouldn't wet sand it. Clear coat is quite thin and ven though you could get the vehicle re-sprayed it's still going to cost you, not only that but it's hard finding a good quality place to do a great job of re-spraying...well at least I haven't found a good body shop...if my friends reads this he's going to boot me out of his body shop hahahahaha.

Any who...I could be out to lunch on this but wouldn't you have orange peal on the paint as well? Again I'm no paint expert just my

My friend that owns a body shop has showe me some of the vehicles he's re-painted and he deals with lots of BMW (orange peal autopia) and he's able to finish the panels/vehicles orange peal free but if I remember correctly he was telling me that the only way to achive orange peal free finish is by completely sanding down the vehicle all the way down to the paint again I could be wrong on this but that's what I think I remember

[Dontsleeponit]

Nica I wondered the same thing about orange peel. Is it in the paint (would need color sanding) or is it in the clear (just wet sanding). Im guessing it could be both, but with todays painting techniques its leaning towards mostly in the clear.

I know you have a paint gauge, have you ever worked on a GTO? Know anyone that can has and comment on the clear coat thickness/hardness?

I know there is a thread on the gto forum somewhere about someone using a paint gauge on one, I want to find it so you can see it and tell me what you think about the numbers.

[Dontsleeponit]

Here it is...
LS1GTO.com Forums - GTO Factory paint thickness (we measured)

between 5 and 6 mil thickness. But does that mean just the clear or is that paint and clear? Would you guys consider this thin?
Quote from the post: "Some factory vehicles arrive with as little as 3.5 mils thickness while others may have as much as 7-9 mils or more. Usually vehicles will arrive between 5-6 mil range." You see how inconsistent the paint jobs are? Mine came out extra sucky.

That test was done by tropi-care, a detailing product company who is a sponsor on that forum.

[Asphalt Rocket]

The peel is in both, my friends paint shop we wetsand each coat of paint as he goes along. Yes you have to wet sand when finished to remove the peel. That is why he puts alot of coats of clear on so there is enough to remove safely to get a flat surface.