Finally I have 2 painted wheels on the same side of the car
McDoof wrote:The 3rd wheel has just about broken my spirit.
Sanding took ages due to the clearcoat being made of ROCK!!
Anyway, I got it done. Then I painted it as per the other wheels. Then applied the clearcoat as per the other wheels. At this point I managed to put my thumb on it. A nice big fat thumbprint right there in the paint.
So I figured I could just sand back the bit of clear that I had touched. But that just left a slightly lighter spot on the wheel even after a new coat of clear.
So I painted a bit of the main paint over the spot with not good results. It split and looked like an old lady's face, it sort of melted off.
OK I was getting a bit frustrated at this point and decided to sand the whole surface of the mostly immaculate wheel and spray over it again.
It looked OK during the spray but when I came back to put on another coat it had gone back to looking like saggy skin. So it looks like it needs a full strip again.
So long story short. I have dropped the wheel into the local acid dipping place and I am going to get it back as bare metal at some point so I can start again. I just couldn't face having to sand it all back again.
The lesson here is that there are no easy fixes with this stuff. If you make a little bit of a mess of it then you have to start again and do it right.
shav wrote:Looks as good as new
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