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Old May 11, 2011 | 08:43 AM
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For those of us that dont have $ 4 new paint in body shop.In January I cleaned up the clearcoat mess very carefully on hood door jams fenders etc. so there was no cc flaking showing. I then resprayed CCoat over all the areas from spray cans. Results so far are excellent, only area that I need to do something else is hood, ___fenders, door frames and panel under wipers still look new. I sanded and spray canned the roof because it was the worst, took two cans of Walley world paint but still looks great.
 
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Old May 11, 2011 | 11:24 AM
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Cool! Lets see the pics!
 
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Old May 11, 2011 | 01:19 PM
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Originally Posted by Crazy4x4RT
Cool! Lets see the pics!
how do you do that?
 
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Old May 11, 2011 | 05:02 PM
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Sounds like it cleaned up pretty good.
 
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Old May 12, 2011 | 06:37 AM
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Originally Posted by dobaroy
Sounds like it cleaned up pretty good.
Yep looked pretty good, have to re do the hood in a few months, engine heat is loosening more of the old clearcoat. Wish parking lot dings were that easy, it seems to attract them even with the wide body side mouldings.
 
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Old May 12, 2011 | 10:24 AM
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Originally Posted by 89newbie
how do you do that?
To upload pictures.

You can create a photo album on this site, Go to "User CP" (Control panel). Near the top of each page in the black strip.

Or you can do a 3rd party website like www.photobucket.com or www.tinypic.com and use the photo link that uses the [IMG] tags.

Or upload it to the post by going to the "Go Advance" post tab next to "post reply" at the bottom then to "Manage Attachments" near the bottom. Then "Browse". Find th picture on your computer files. Then Upload.
 
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Old May 14, 2011 | 01:09 AM
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Originally Posted by Crazy4x4RT
To upload pictures.

You can create a photo album on this site, Go to "User CP" (Control panel). Near the top of each page in the black strip.

Or you can do a 3rd party website like www.photobucket.com or www.tinypic.com and use the photo link that uses the [IMG] tags.

Or upload it to the post by going to the "Go Advance" post tab next to "post reply" at the bottom then to "Manage Attachments" near the bottom. Then "Browse". Find th picture on your computer files. Then Upload.
O.K. I will try it. I will be redoing the hood again because heat has backed off soe more clearcoat but I will take before and after pics.
 
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Old May 15, 2011 | 01:13 PM
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Sounds sweet man, if you throw clear coat on flat black paint will, the flat black shows as sorta glossy of origional flat black?
 
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Old Jul 5, 2011 | 01:37 AM
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Originally Posted by T.C.
Sounds sweet man, if you throw clear coat on flat black paint will, the flat black shows as sorta glossy of origional flat black?
Thats a good question. Moving from Va to lol another state and she wants to flat black her ride. If we do it I will post. She also is very interested in a camo paint job but the move is eating up all mony at this point.
 
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