From dark grey to white... Home made paint job. It's white!

Post by **340cbr** » 12 Sep 2007 05:00 am

Well, I decided to paint mine dark grey 340 in White.

As I do not have a lot of funds, this was a DIY paint job.

Started by buying all the material that I need to complete the job:

- 1L of white paint
- filler
- a lot of sandpapers
- 1L of """base coat"""

and some other little things..

Day 1:

- Treated some rust points.

- disassembled some things

- Remake some areas that had dents with the "filler"

- sandpapered all the car

At the end of the day, it was like this:

I realized that in a near future I'll need a new passenger door, but for now tried to make the best that I can in this one. Givven the amount of rust that it have I believe that it wat due to a previous accident that was not resolved properly...

Day 2 to come

Post by **Frits** » 12 Sep 2007 01:34 pm

Can't wait to see the result!

I'm thinking about doing the same...

Post by **Jason B** » 12 Sep 2007 01:36 pm

Waiting to see how this comes out, been tempted to do this to the 360 in the future.

Post by **340cbr** » 13 Sep 2007 01:07 am

Day 2:

Well, in the second day, all that i've done was taken out some more pieces and isolate everything that I don't want to see white

Day 3:

With everything isolated, I give the "base coat" all arround the car.

After some hours, sandpapered all the car again.

As the base coat is white, at the end of the day I have a preciew of how the car will look like in this colour.

Ah, also give the bumpers some kind of special treatment as the weren't painted

Photos at the end of the day:

Post by **Frits** » 13 Sep 2007 07:27 am

I think that's gonna be nice! You did use primer on the bumpers?

I'm thinking about the all white R-sport look:

But I'm not convinced yet.

Post by **340cbr** » 13 Sep 2007 09:57 pm

Yes, but before the primary I give it with a spray wich I do not know the name

The car in there is only with the primary.

I choose BMW Alpine White III

Post by **classicswede** » 14 Sep 2007 01:14 pm

An etch primer by any chance?

Post by **340cbr** » 17 Sep 2007 05:13 pm

Probably it's that.

Day 4:

- Cleaned all the car
- Paint it!!!

Photos at the end of the day (poor quality, mobile phone camera):

Well... this sould have been the last day, it is not perfect. Is not shinning like I would like it to do, so I have to think in a solution.

But..... It's white

Post by **foggyjames** » 18 Sep 2007 08:46 pm

It'll need machine polishing to bring the shine up. Paint usually looks dull when it is first applied.

Good work

cheers

James

Post by **IvanAE86** » 19 Sep 2007 07:55 pm

sand it with uberfine sandpaper, then clearcoat it... if the surface isnt painted very well, then polishing might only make the surface duller (problem I had with my black roller-painted 360).

Post by **340cbr** » 19 Sep 2007 09:14 pm

Maybe that's what I'm gonna do