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Old 09-19-2006, 12:04 AM
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questions about wet sanding

As some of you know i had my car painted at earl schiebs. They applied 2 clear coats, the first clear coat finish was perfect. orange peel was un-noticable and gloss/shine looked good even at 10 inches from the car. But when they applied the second clear coat there was some noticable orange peel spots.

My dad is suggesting wet sanding with 2000 grit sand paper and buffing it with a 3M compound after.

I did a little searching and came up with this thread:
New paintjob woes

donbryce suggests wet sanding the day after the clear coat is applied. Its been a week after the second clear coat.

My dad is saying that we wait for 2 weeks (at the end of this week) to do the sanding as he thinks there would be a big difference in the paints due to the fact that donbryce's painted hot rod was probably with a seperate primer, paint, and clear coat. While schiebs has an all in one deal so they dont primer before paint. Only thing that is seperate is the clear coat but the paint is an all in one.

What do you guys suggest?
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