I was recommended to wet sand my truck instead of going to a shop and spending money on that. Is it worth wet sanding the truck? What grit paper would I use?

 

do what?

was it just painted?.... need more info

800 + grit,,, more like 1500

if your talkin factory paint do not!!! wet sand

 

Well, my truck is blue. It has paint chipped off in a few places..scratches everywhere. I wanna sand my whole truck down and repaint it to black.

 

If you want to repaint it, then, wet sanding is not what you want to do. If you have clear coat peeling, or other sun damage to they paint, you are going to want to scuff if off with something a tad meaner than 800+ grit.

If you haven't done body work before, I highly recommend picking up a book or two, and doing some reading before diving into it.

 

Wet sanding is usually done to remove orange peel from new paint. Here's a before and after from last summer when I had one of my trucks painted. I wet sanded and polished it myself. Lots of elbow grease...

 

The worst thing about Black paint is that it will show every minor imperfection. So you'll have to feather out every chip and massage every ding and dent out.

If you were to wet sand it, you'd want to use at least a 240 grit paper and probably some air sanders to do it with. If you haven't done so, you'll need to wash the truck then wipe it down with a good wax and grease remover before sanding, or you'll sand the wax into the paint. Oh, and you'll have a mess.

You'll want to sand down to the factory primer or at least until you can see it through the paint. Then you'll want to wash all the sanding dust out of evry crack and crevase.
Bare spots will have to be reprimed and feathered in with lighter grades of paper.

If the truck is extremely straight, I'd shoot it with a primer sealer (not a primer surfacer) and then color coat and clear coat it. That's probably a whole 'nother thread

Again, a book on auto painting or a friendly paint store person is a good source of info. I'd guess if you googled "how to paint a car" you'd find plenty of good stuff.

 

What process did you use to get it to look like that? I need to do mine this spring.

 

Whats you all's thoughts on the clay bar system? Anyone used it and how to. Thats if your not repainting the truck that is. And the dammmm yellow headlights.