Just out of curiosity has anyone ever sprayed their car with spraycans you buy form the autoshop?

I got some graphite grey metallic paint in a can from the autoshop, obviously primer and lacquer too. I tried it on an inside door (vertical surface, lots of contours etc.) and it turned out great! if i cleaned it and smoothed it it would look bodyshop new!

Anyway was considering doing this to the whole car but i know it'd need a good few cans of paint but as it's a one off i think it'll still be cheaper than buying an air compressor and spray kit and paint etc etc..

Anyway i'm happy with the result on the inside door and it's given me confidence to do the rest.

I'm a cheapstake and don't fancy a proper bodyshop respray lol

bad idea or good if i take my time?

(p.s. any estimates on ammount of cans needed?)

 

Yes but only to vandalise someone’s car

 

i would delere this post mate before you get shot down for being a pikey cooont

 

 

 

Steve, check this i am not the PF pikey anymore!

 

FPMSL @ adam, its true we have a NEW PASSIONFORD PIKEY

 

 

you are joking right???

 

Yes I've done it. But it was only a mini - and it didnt look too bad - but you could tell.
The only way to get an even cover and not get a stripey effect is to put absolutley shit loads of paint on and rub down / t-cut it back.
Wouldn't do it again. I must have used 20 cans. Thats probably half way to the cost of a cheap repspray.

Whatever you do DO NOT spray the car with metallic paint from a spray can. Trust me it WILL look shit. An aerosol doesn't have the fanwidth to get an even finish.

 

Just dont mate, pay for a respray!

 

Amount of cans needed? About 25.

The look on peoples faces when you drive past in your Graphite Orange Peel Grey Saphire? Priceless.

 

:gayflag:

 

lol anything has to look better than what it does just now. It was only an idea jeez

How much would a respray be roughly as the car is already stripped?

Tell you what i'll do, i'll spray a door or summit tomorrow if it's a good day and i'll show you how it looks. I was a bit reluctant at first myself but after spraying the inside i was very surprised.

And i'll leave the post up for more people to laugh at lol, nuthing wrong with a bit of humour

 

Nice to see you have a sense of humour

 

LOL This post just says PIKEY

 

right, seen a bloke in England the evening before Ford Fair spraying his front or rearbumper
(can't remember wich one it was ) with a spraycan!
It looked absolutely like is was done by some professional painter!

 

lmao.. nuthin wrong with being pikey

I've seen worse spray jobs come out from one of my local bodyshops!

 

Do you own a Burberry cap & wear Rockport by any chance?

Rattlecan resprays look utter sh*t!
I know of at least 3 cars that have had it done, one Keved up & blended Corsa & 2 Novas!
Orange peel spray jobs ain't a good look & are

 

The inside prob. looks ok cos you can only see it from one angle and the light isnt on it. On a big flat pannel like a door or wing, you will be able to see every move you made with the can.
As you wave the can from side to side (or up and down - whatever) the metallic flakes in the paint land at different angles affecting the way they catch the light.
Normally when spraying a pannel your last "drop" coat is sprayed from further away and all at the same angle to get an even coat.
An aerosol cant do this cos if you got far enough from the pannel to cover it evenly.. the paint will be dry before it gets to the pannel.

You might JUST get away with a straight colour.

Why not hire a compressor and spraygun and do it properly if you're feeling that brave.

(incidentally - I'm not a sprayer.. but have made enough balls ups to know what aint going to work )

 

lol well i'm not a ned just like to do things myself rather than pay someone to do it for me. I've always been able to do anything myself without having to ask someones help and i guess i just like to keep learning other things.

Hiring an air compressor etc isn't such a bad idea

ach well i'll spray a door tomorrow and see how it turns out , always good for a laugh if nothing else

 

some of the reasons you get orange peel are shite prep in the primer and top coat much to heavy. You can polish orange peel out of the top coat but it's a mission if you an't got the right gear. As someone above said above you dont get much of a fan with a can! in some paint shops im sure you can get 1/2 ltr pressureized cans that give a good fan and maybe a better finish. A top paint job is mainly down to very good prep. Good luck!!!!!!!!!!

 

my mate done this to his rs500 didnt look to bad

 

You'll get a crap finish from cans. Best bet is to hire a compressor and gun from HSS for about 30 a day. Give it 2 or 3 coats of primer, and then 2 or 3 of paint and polish with G3 cutting polish (make sure you dilute it with water, 6:1)

 

 

why not try one of those rollers from qvc you should get the whole car done on 1 refill

 

pmsl!!!!!!!!!!!

 

lmao!!

 

Topski for the new PF Pikey

 

there is no way you could get a big pannel suck as a bonnet wet all over, plus, with cans you are very likely to get slight differs in shades, its best to get a job lot made up from a motor factors.

about Ł18 a liter of block colour going to about Ł27 for metallic.

 

PMSL my mate roller brshed his Mk1 fester he had the pan for the roller and everything. He did it on the street in yellow household emulsion too..................

He was a bit different to say the least

 

I really dont believe you...

 

Wrong, just..................... wrong

 

have you ever watched that programme with that mockney twat mike brewer and the geezer who built that motorised sofa? they buy an old banger, the geezer does it up, usually putting on a new panel and sprays it with proper bodyshop made aerosols and then they try and flog it for a profit.

it always looks ok on there, and i don't think that geezer is a bodger. for one panel, i'd say it's the best way, but for the whole car you want a compressor.

paying a lot in a bodyshop does not guarantee you a better finish, so slow down with the pikey comments. you know what they: if you want something done properly, do it yourself.

 

 

...cause that Capri they did looked brilliant.... It was "almost" the same colour as the rest of the car.

 

I remember the capri!!!!!!

 

yeah, but that's nothing to do with using an aerosol.

that's the risk you take when spraying just one panel, whether it be by aerosol or full on compressor and spray gun setup.

 

the only bit of my car ive ever sprayed with a can was a bit of the body kit.. it was stone chipped to fuck arround the front part of the rear arch.. it actaully came out ok.. only cos its a relatively small part and is seperate to the actualy bodywork.
CheeRS
Phil..
Ps my mate did a whole door on an RS1600 that came out really mint.. however it wasnt a metalic colour! i recon it would look absoloutely shit if done to a whole car...

 

Used 3 500ml cans of finest satin black to hide the fact every panel on mine had different shades of primer on it once-upon-a-time

Never bothered to flat it - I just picked the paint off it when I was bored

That was about 3 years ago. It's still not painted

Not worth the grief imvho mate

/Munk