With a rattle can!
Here's another darpar FYI/Tutorial that'll probably get little to no responses!
Well I didn't paint the whole car, but I did re-do/paint the rear bumper....with spray cans.
A few years ago I accidently backed into the wife's old Toyota....damn backup cameras....
Our bumpers just touched enough to scrape a little paint off my Subaru, so I did a half ass
job with some touch up paint from the dealer...looked like crap but seemed ok at the time.
Also had some other nicks on the top part of the bumper
So I recently ran across this co. online that claimed they could match any auto color code.
https://www.automotivetouchup.com/
Sent them the color code off my Subie and thought i would give it a try....beat the almost $500 quote I got from a local
body shop to R&R the rear bumper and repaint it.
A couple weeks later my 'paint kit' came in the mailrmer-base coat-clear and some other stuff
And so it began, my 2011 Legacy's rear bumper was about to get squirted!
Prep work painting a car is the most time consuming part....the painting goes pretty quick.
Masked off the rear bumper....I didn't want to deal with trying to line up/fit the bumper back on later.
Did a LOT of wet sanding and featheredged the F ups.
Surprisingly the base coat was pretty much a perfect match after blending the paint in with the existing paint job.
You can't just mask off the little spots that need refinishing and paint those, you basically have to do a whole panel/
section so it doesn't show.
Then the clear/top coat was applied, this took way more paint than I thought as acrylic lacquer dries way too fast to get a good flow when laying down the coats....especially when the temp was around 90°.
A good urethane clear would've been a much better choice.....but lacquer is what came in the kit.
The finished job didn't come out too bad for an old fart using rattle cans in a garage that felt like a sauna!
Also buffed out the foggy/milky looking headlight covers while I was at....takes about 10-15 mins per side but well worth the effort....I just used my D/A with a polishing foam pad and some 4000 grit polish.
Class is dismissed! LOL