"Doki" wrote in message
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"James" wrote in message
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In relation to my other thread from a few days ago about painting my
bumper. I have primed it with aerosol paint from paint factors, so far
with high build primer, rubbed it down and smoothed it up nicely. Showed
a few niggles and imperfections that were soon sorted followed by some
more high build primer. I've put 2 coats on, just wondering how many is
nescearry ? Tommorow I will put the regular primer on and rub down again
again how many coats ? Then following day the base then laquer (just
after some info on how many coats to be honest)

Also is it ok to leave the primer on whilst still using the car (bumpers
on car now) would rain affect the primer ? or basecoat without the laquer
obviously ?

What paint did you get in the end, out of interest? My local paint factors
will now only do synthetic or water based in rattle cans. Or some variety
of catalysed paint, if really needed, but obviously that's got a rather
short shelf life.

Alright Doki,

The place I went would only do water based based as of some new law he said,
he also said it isn't too bad stuff. He said ideally you'd be best getting a
bodyshop to do it with 2pack stuff. But I said I was doing it on the cheap.
They came in 500ml cans for £9.

I spent a few evenings so far prepping it. All nice and flat and begging for
some paint

I had to rub a few spots down which went right down to the plastic (black in
colour, guess this is the abs stuff). All scot padded and washed, will panel
wipe it before though.

While your about I had a quick question, on the patches I rubbed right the
way down do I need to apply some kind of plastic primer to it ? or can I
just spray the high build primer straight on ?

When I get the high build primer on do I use 800 or 1200 grit wet and dry ?

Thanks