DIY painting your car with rollers

[Skym]

DIY painting your car with rollers -

http://forums.justcommodores.com.au/holden-commodore-how-tos/76882-diy-painting-your-car-rollers.html

Can't remember if I posted this, but wow.

[bellis_GTR]

very nice thanks for sharing. I would love to do this. Id rather put my money in to upgrades

I wonder if I could get a paint shop to mix something close to Bayside Blue.

[raijin-xiii]

lol might do this for my new subie hood.

[Snake556]

Might do this on my van. This is awesome!

[esh]

Yes! Thank you Skym for posting this...I'll definitely be doing some painting this summer and its nice to see an alternative. Though I'll prolly be picking up a spray gun and go that route first

[blkgtr02]

wow, looks amazing for roller...might be one of those good from far but far from good type deals...

[PopolZ]

I'm trying to convince my roommate to do his rusting civic before it gets way out of hand... so far no luck. I might do my intrepid though

[Snow]

With the amount of time you put into it... If you would consider your time worth $10/hr you'd still probably be better off getting it professionally done. But I guess if you have the time, and don't value your time that much at the margin, this could be for you.

Now painting a simple single piece (hood... bumper cover etc) it may be worth while.

[bellis_GTR]

Yeah thats what I was thinking, but I got a lot of time to spare atm. Plus anything will look better then the paint thats on it now.

[island_skyline]

thats a wicked paint job with a roller...

[Dragon Humper]

Been doing this for years with primer/sealers and High Solids. Saves alot of bullsh1t. Alot of guys that I know will spray primer on outdoors (I used to as well) because you are just going to sand it down anyway, but the nice neighbourhood that I now live in would get their collective panties in a bunch if I started spraying highsolids in my driveway.

I don't think that you really need to sand between every coat, I would do 3 then hit it with 600, 3 more hit with 1000, 3 more then start the rub-out process. Rub out with wetsand 1000, then 1500, then 2000 then 3 stages of polish.

Hell, I would do base/clear. You could roll on the base (5 coats), sand it with 800 then take it to Maaco to have the clear sprayed on (full gallon). Then you can do the rub-out on the clear and it would look a mile deep. I call it "perma wet".......mmmm.......sounds dirty.





Jon.

[VQ38DETT]

I wonder if it looks any different up close in the light?