here is the problem, my car was painted by the guy i got it from, and he put the paint on WAY to thick and its orange peeling really bad...is there a way to remedy this? i hear wet sanding might do the trick, but most of the detailers are tentative to wetsand the whole car...any ideas?

wetsanding and buffing is your only option now. orange peel doesn't really happen from putting on paint to thick, and it doesn't happen over time. (if thats what you're implying [img]smile.gif[/img] ) it's all in how the paint is laid down.

so would wetsanding and buffing solve it? or is it a 50/50 chance?

Wet sanding is one option , the other is to strip and repaint.

Wetsanding with somewhere around 1400 upwards of 2500 grit, depending on how thick the paint was applied and the final result you want.

Any pics of the crappy paint your referring to? Then comes buffing and waxing, gonna be a long tedius job, but the results are worth the effort.

it would absolutely solve it 100% if done correctly. now you don't "HAVE" to wetsand, i've had better results from using a DA sander with 1500 grit then following it up with 3000 grit paper. the 3000 paper likes to be damp, but you don't need to have water all over the place, just a little spray bottle to give it a little shot now and then.

[ June 04, 2004, 07:38 AM: Message edited by: bigunner1 ]

it would absolutely solve it 100% if done correctly. now you don't "HAVE" to wetsand, i've had better results from using a DA sander with 1500 grit then following it up with 3000 grit paper. the 3000 paper likes to be damp, but you don't need to have water all over the place, just a little spray bottle to give it a little shot now and then. </font>[/QUOTE]Not necessarily if it is a base coat\clear coat no amount of sanding on the clear coat is going to remove orange peel on a base coat. You will have to strip it and repaint

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[ June 04, 2004, 05:22 PM: Message edited by: Mullen ]

^^^you won't see the orange peel on the basecoat. the clear is where the gloss come from. when you see orange peel it is from the clear, the only thing you get from the basecoat is color and thats it.