Help with paint work.

[porky]

Hi, basicly the guy who had my car before me removed the big plastic things some 340s have down the side, and made a mess of the paint work. I dont really know how to sort it so am looking for some advise on what a need to sort it out and how to do it. Heres some pics of what i need to sort.









Oh and theres a little rust on one of the wheel arches


This come with the car


What else do i need and how do i go about sorting this mess then?

Many thanks Phil

[Ride_on]

You are not going to fix that with a touch up brush, although it might look slightly better. The small rust spots you might get away with a limited repair, but it going to end up spotty + lumpy. It might even be rusted through from the inside, which will be more complicated.

Haynes manuals have a basic paint repair instruction usually, but don't explain much about rust prevention. If you leave any rust or pinholes in the metal it will rust through again.

Basically remove all the rust (mechanically+chemically), prime with zinc primer and flat down with 400 wet+dry (wet) until perfect and you can see all the paint layers fading out around the repair spot, more primer and flat down as required. The original paint work has several layers (6 coats?), so you need to get back up to that level of thickness.

Once its nice and flat then mask up and over spray the repair by 50%, in your case it looks like the whole door should be done. Flat down with 1000 wet+dry (wet) and/or rub down with T-cut.

To be honest these days I leave the the main painting to professionals, home safe paint is just not that good. You might get the job done for £100-200.

[SteveP]

Personally, I would do a DIY job following the above advice and fit some rubbing strips back on to cover the repair - it'll be hard to get localised repairs blended in to the rest of the door.