I hit my house with my truck!!!!
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Tato
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Nice outcome you had.
Art's recommendation about touch up, 30 min after put the clear, then wait 24 hours to sand it and polish is a great follow up.
However, from what I could see from here, you've hit many 'critical' spots, like high lines or too close to the corners...
That's a huge increase in difficult to correct the damage without inflicting more damage.
I suppose you've used touch up paint based on the tip of your finger? hehe
Touch up paint is difficult to achieve a perfect result. Unless you are a 'Picasso', it will look like a 5 y/o child painted your car with a brush. There are some ways to minimize this look.
That being said, I avoid touching up until removing everything I can within my polishing steps.
That way, you will touch up just the critical spots, and not all of them.
I mean, my first follow up would be to compound the area, not to the most aggressiveness, but at least to reduce considerably the damage area to what really won't get out by polishing.
If you touch up as your first step, you may be adding more touch up than would be needed for spots that may have been removed with a compound. More touch up, means more 5 y/o paint job looks.
If I find some areas that I believe sanding would improve even better, I would sand it down, but don't do it near corners or high lines. Not only because paint may be thinner on that areas, but because you'll probably remove too much paint when trying to remove your sanding marks over critical areas... Don't need to ask me how I've learned that
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That means to observe and sand down only where you'll be able to remove sanding marks safely afterwards.
After that, I would choose the spots to touch up.
Touching up is not 'painting' the area, at least the way I do it, use a very thin brush and let the paint 'flow to the area' and cover the spot, I don't know how to explain, but when you touch the scratch with the brush the paint almost goes 'alone' to where it needs to go. Try to avoid (as you can, 100% is impossible) to let brushed lines.
The way it looks here, seems you've used too large brush for the size of the scratches, and being it very difficult to make a perfect straight line over, and just on the scratch area may give it a less than perfect appearance.
You may try to sand the highness you've created, however it may be hard to sand just above the high points of touch up, and trust me, they will look the same, but 'lower' than they are now.
The way they are, you probably won't see them if you don't want to, so you can live with them.
Generally, after compounding, sanding, compounding again, touching up, sanding, and polishing again, you will basically have just 1 chance to do it right.
After that, things will become even more dangerous to be made.
Hope that helps a bit, please, feel free to ask anything if I may help you.
Kind Regards.
Art's recommendation about touch up, 30 min after put the clear, then wait 24 hours to sand it and polish is a great follow up.
However, from what I could see from here, you've hit many 'critical' spots, like high lines or too close to the corners...
That's a huge increase in difficult to correct the damage without inflicting more damage.
I suppose you've used touch up paint based on the tip of your finger? hehe
Touch up paint is difficult to achieve a perfect result. Unless you are a 'Picasso', it will look like a 5 y/o child painted your car with a brush. There are some ways to minimize this look.
That being said, I avoid touching up until removing everything I can within my polishing steps.
That way, you will touch up just the critical spots, and not all of them.
I mean, my first follow up would be to compound the area, not to the most aggressiveness, but at least to reduce considerably the damage area to what really won't get out by polishing.
If you touch up as your first step, you may be adding more touch up than would be needed for spots that may have been removed with a compound. More touch up, means more 5 y/o paint job looks.
If I find some areas that I believe sanding would improve even better, I would sand it down, but don't do it near corners or high lines. Not only because paint may be thinner on that areas, but because you'll probably remove too much paint when trying to remove your sanding marks over critical areas... Don't need to ask me how I've learned that
. That means to observe and sand down only where you'll be able to remove sanding marks safely afterwards.
After that, I would choose the spots to touch up.
Touching up is not 'painting' the area, at least the way I do it, use a very thin brush and let the paint 'flow to the area' and cover the spot, I don't know how to explain, but when you touch the scratch with the brush the paint almost goes 'alone' to where it needs to go. Try to avoid (as you can, 100% is impossible) to let brushed lines.
The way it looks here, seems you've used too large brush for the size of the scratches, and being it very difficult to make a perfect straight line over, and just on the scratch area may give it a less than perfect appearance.
You may try to sand the highness you've created, however it may be hard to sand just above the high points of touch up, and trust me, they will look the same, but 'lower' than they are now.
The way they are, you probably won't see them if you don't want to, so you can live with them.
Generally, after compounding, sanding, compounding again, touching up, sanding, and polishing again, you will basically have just 1 chance to do it right.
After that, things will become even more dangerous to be made.
Hope that helps a bit, please, feel free to ask anything if I may help you.
Kind Regards.
Flash Gordon
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You might wetsand using 2000 or 3000 grit paper. This will help smooth it out
aim4squirrels
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Try again in those dates, good sir.
aim4squirrels
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Usually, the bare minimum time to let paint out gas is 30 days. You're right at 19 days. I'd wait if you can.