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 mail😛rmer-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

    You could be over my shoulder coaching me through the process and I'd still screw it up. Nice work and the car looks great.

    You're damn good. How do I buff out the orange peel from the clear? I've put 2 coats of clear on this and now a little orange peel.


      LBlack14
      Wet sand it very carefully with some 1500 or 2000 grit sand paper and just do a little at a time.
      Keep drying the wetness off till the whole head looks evenly dull.
      If you go too far into the base/black color coat just mask it off and spray more clear on and repeat the
      wet sanding process.
      Once the orange peel is gone the take some polishing compound and buff it out til you can your
      mugs reflection.....then put a good wax on top like Griots ceramic wax.

        It looks pretty nice. Lacquer clear doesn't usually age well. You can buy 2k in a rattle can which is actually catalyzed urethane.

          backinit Lacquer clear doesn't usually age well. You can buy 2k in a rattle can which is actually catalyzed urethane.

          Yep that's one of the many downsides of using lacquer.
          What I should've done is just got some urethane topcoat with a hardener and used my trusty old HVLP gun.
          Looks like a garden hose nozzle but this gun works awesome, even has an adjustable tip.

          Couple years ago I repainted my wife's Ford Focus bumper after I replaced it after hitting a deer. Used the same brand paint as you and a special 2 part clear coat that you had to activate by releasing an inner container. It actually turned out really really good.

          Sadly the transmission went out on the car in a month or two afterwards and even though the part that went out was covered by a recall, all the crap that part screwed up was not. So sold it and bought a Honda!

          darpar a friend of mine did the bumpers of his truck. When it went on, it looked like shit, but after it dried, it looked damn good. I don't know exactly how he prepped them, but it looked pretty damn good.