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Postby Faron » 24 Fri Feb, 2012 10:44 am

When you are painting your Buggies a single color, how much of the actual color are you buying?
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Re: Paint

Postby CoryN » 24 Fri Feb, 2012 11:04 am

Well now. Beings I have painted my buggy 3 times in the last month I have some experience in this.

I can paint my entire buggy inside and out (keep in mind I have side pods) with 2 red solo cups of paint.

I'm using an HVLP gun, so I get very little overspray.

You will want to do more than that in clear.
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Re: Paint

Postby CoryN » 24 Fri Feb, 2012 11:14 am

and a word to the wise,

do not go anywhere near your buggy with a sharpie. They bleed through everything, almost impossible to get rid of.
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Re: Paint

Postby Faron » 24 Fri Feb, 2012 11:38 am

Thank you! I am thinking about going with a BMW Color for the main color. Laguna Seca Blue is a color that they used for the M3, and only for a couple of years. It will be a great color to put some funky graphics on.

CoryN wrote:and a word to the wise,

do not go anywhere near your buggy with a sharpie. They bleed through everything, almost impossible to get rid of.


It seems like all the shows that you see on TV use a sharpie to point out places they need to fix. But I can see how you would get bleed through, the darn things write on just about anything. With that being said I will take your advice to heart and never write on my Buggy with a Sharpie!

I have read that using a normal pencil is the thing to use if you must. Seems reasonable to me, what do you think?
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Re: Paint

Postby BrianB » 24 Fri Feb, 2012 12:20 pm

A black car may not show a sharpie :mrgreen:
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Re: Paint

Postby CoryN » 24 Fri Feb, 2012 1:56 pm

wanna bet?

5 coats of black and it still bled through.
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Re: Paint

Postby BrianB » 24 Fri Feb, 2012 3:32 pm

Man, that sucks. Sorry. :(
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Re: Paint

Postby Faron » 26 Sun Feb, 2012 12:01 am

I am sorry that is happening, hope you get it figured out soon.
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Re: Paint

Postby CoryN » 26 Sun Feb, 2012 8:46 am

I'm good. All I have left to do is wet sand and polish
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