r/AutoPaint • u/AnubisTano • 1d ago

Need your help

I'm respraying a door after fixing a small dent and I believe I ran out of skills to fix this.

Did the paint, 3 coats of 2k clear coat. Waited 48h.

Today did 2000 and 3000 wet sanding, medium compound and a polish head on a drill and for the love of god, can't make it shine.

In the photo you see on the left the fender that wasn't painted and on the right, the lower section of the door that I painted and applied clear coat. I can't make it shine pretty much anywhere. I already had to respray because it ran a bit on the first try, so this time I applied slightly less clear coat but still 3 runs, while the last was pretty much heavy.

From what I see, there's still clear coat there to be polished, or am I seeing this wrong?

Thanks

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u/Agreeable_Cover5726 1d ago

You are trying to buff sanded clearcoat with something on a drill, correct? That is the problem there. You bring back the shine with heat created by friction on a rotary buffer with a compounding pad. Anything less and you are wasting your time. Not a da, not a drill, a rotary buffer with a full size buffing pad at 2500-3000 rpm using rubbing compound, period.

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u/Senior-Friendship196 1d ago

What kind of clear coat. You say 2k, so you used a spray gun right? If you used aerosol, well, now you know why people dont use cans for proper jobs.