stick on pintstripe ‘blend’
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I have painted 1 car in my life, and it didn’t really need a complete paint job, just some serious blending skills…. which I didn’t have then and still don’t have now…..
The problem was the car is a ’96, very faded and cracking clear in a couple spots, had racing stripes down the roof and pinstripes down the sides. It got new fenders and a hammered out hood. Is the best option to pull all of the stripes, blend the paint where it needs it, and reapply new pinstrips in the same fade lines as the old ones? Or do these cars all need a complete repaint?
really confused here nel!
at any rate i think a complete would work better
….bump
what’s standard operating procedure for body shops with pinstriped cars? I know it must come up all the time
i heard jimmo uses em ta hide bad color matches 😛 tells the customer there such nice folks he did em for free :lol1 😉
[b]bondomerchant wrote:[/b]
[quote]i heard jimmo uses em ta hide bad color matches 😛 tells the customer there such nice folks he did em for free :lol1 ;)[/quote]lol, I also use them as a break point for a butt match, why clear the panel when you can stop at a pinstripe? :lol1 :wak
[b]bobwires wrote:[/b]
[quote]….bumpwhat’s standard operating procedure for body shops with pinstriped cars? I know it must come up all the time[/quote]
Pinstripes are becoming a lot less popular it seems. Our procedure is remove them and replace after paint. We have about 100 rolls to choose from, if we can’t get a match we call in a sublet company (trimline) that will come in and do it for us. The painted on ones are a paint in the arse, but we spray em back on when we have to. We have had times where the match was about 95% and just redid an entire side rather then call in a sublet. Nobody would know any different and you can only see one side at a time. :rock
Speaking of one side at a time, it reminds me of a mirror job I did a few years back. Installed a paint to match mirror on one side of car, customer took it and the next day he came back and realized he had a black mirror on the other side. Don’t know how that one sliped by quality control :stoned
on the plastic saturn I did I ended up having to paint more than I wanted to because while I thought I’d just pull off the pinstripes with a stripe-off wheel, I actually ended up heating up the paint enough that it realeased from the plastic door skins…… didn’t do that on metal. it sucked. I went from blending into the front doors to a complete…. and while I was at I I painted the back bumper and roof since clear was starting to peel.
so on a job like this with racing stripes it sounds like you pretty much have to do a complete….. bummer
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