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What PTG readings would you feel comfortable with wetsanding? I haven't looked into pricing, but I've heard the pricing of adding coats of clear is in the thousands (close to the same cost of repainting the same color) because they have to rough up the surface with 800 grit, and tape up...

Avi, if we get a blueish haze, does that have to be removed before another layer is added?

OK, I'm starting to see the light now. Thanks so much. The Equinox is my wife's primary driver, and it's my learning vehicle :D It has more curved surfaces than my 300C SRT8 that I'm dying to wet sand. I want to learn everything about it before I do the 300, as I only have 1 shot at it since...

OK, so the Meguiars Sanding Pad is the problem. So how would you use a hard backing on surfaces that aren't flat? Should I use something really small? I don't mind if that's what it takes to do a show quality finish.

Thanks for your response Kevin. Very informative. However, I did hand sand. So does any know why I still have some remaining orange peel? Is it still from the clear or is it possible its from the paint underneath?

You know, it's really hard to shoot orange peel. I must have tried a dozen different techniques with my camera. Anyway, here are some pics. And to answer someone's question, I hand sanded this like Mike's tutorial.

I wonder if that is it, because my clear is flattened. It makes sense, and if that is the case, no sense in going more aggressive with the sanding.

Using Mike's Wolfgang Twins tutorial, I wet sanded fully, and it's certainly much much better, but I still have some orange peel. I spent 2 nights learning how to do this. The first night on the quarter panel of the Equinox, I was cautious, checking my work often as I went. I used 2000 grit...

Chris, why can't Opti Coat 2.0 be layered?

Layering As a person who likes to remove the orange peel out by wet-sanding, to me, I care about the total thickness of the clearcoat + Opti-Coat/CQuartz. It seems like CQuartz is better of the two products because it can be layered. From what I've been reading, Cquartz can be layered and...