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i'm toying with spraying my vw van, its got a shocking old paint job that i suspect was rollered on some time ago.
i'm not really after a concors quality job, at this time i dont want to strip back to bare metal, more i'm after a quick blow over for tidier finish and better weather protection.
main prob i can forsee is that i will have to spray outdoors. i did a hobie cat some years ago outdoors and that turned out ok.
anyone ever done that and have any advice?
People still roller on paintjobs and it can look good but a recent trend is to use graffiti paint cans. It's actually a really good idea because graffiti paint sticks to anything, is really high quality paint which covers spectacularly well and the cans and nozzles are designed to spray evenly and consistently - you can get different nozzles for detail work or covering large areas
It's also cheap, you can respray a whole car for around £50 or less. Just scothcbrite the whole car, mask it off and go for it. I've used graffiti spray cans and they are a joy to use.
Only downside is that the paint will probably be a matt finish but I reckon that looks really good.
It will look at lot worse than it does now if you try and paint it outdoors.
Do the donkey work and get sometime to apply the paint for you in a booth.
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ask your neighbours to move their cars away. Overspray can travel quite a distance - I've been on the receiving end.
Used to a bit of home spraying back in my youth as a few of my mates had autograss and rally cars, we did most of them with spray cans in an enclosed barn. Finish was ok but it didn't matter as they would be smashed and scraped within weeks! Anything better hough and I'd be looking for a place to do a cheap blowover, do the prep yourself to save money.
Don't know where you are , but there are various spray booths around the country that you can rent.
Probably worth doing, so you only need do it the once
Sprayed a car in mates garage once using 2 pack.
Everything that was once living in the roof space found themselves embedded in the paintwork after dropping on to it after we had finished.
more i'm after a quick blow over for tidier finish
The quality of the finish will only be as good as that of the coat you're covering unless you're going to spend ages sanding the old finish.
what about a vinyl wrap?
I have no experience of it at all so its a question to the forum rather than a suggestion.
Supposed to be cheaper than paint but I have no idea of the quality of finish or durability.
Paint it today in this wind, it'll be reet and dry really quick 😆
Mates got a 911 that's wrapped. It's a 3m product. Beware though, his is absolutely spot on, it's all down to the guys doing the wrap and like anything there are good and bad fitters out there.
Rustoleum is often used for roller painting vans. It's slow drying and self-levelling but reacts badly with other paints apparently, so can only be re-painted with rustoleum unless you remove the lot.
I'd check that your van hasn't been painted with it and will accept spray paint (do a small bit first) before going for it.
I'm no expert, but this is what I learned when approaching this subject myself when I had a money pit, I mean T4. 🙂
The club 80-90 forum had a big section on rustoleum roller painting for camper vans when used to frequent it a few years ago.
i sprayed the landy in tractol - some in the drive way some in the garage.
Its a bit flat now after 2 years but meh- its taken scratches knocks and bumps well.
People often roller tractol on.
Check out plasti-dip - notnused it myself but seems to be a spray on coating that can be peeled off later. I was thinking about getting a can and doing a bike frame. Loads of vids on YouTube
plasti dip comes off well easy on car applications - looks poor quick.
My mate did his mccoy kit car (fibreglass) with pukka plasti dip - it wasnt cheap either. and it looekd great to start with but quickly became tatty and started to peel
I sprayed an old VW Beetle once in a barn and it looked great, for a bit at least, but a week or so later it started crazing I think because the cellulose based paint I used reacted with whatever was there before, even after prepping I thought well. 2 pack better but pretty smelly/dodgy stuff and needs doing by someone with the right kit and place.
Also once painted an old Cortina with toplac boat paint, looked hand painted obviously but looked shiny and lasted well for ages.
I've done it. Bought some Ercos for my beetle one Saturday and decided they wouldn't go with it being yellow so bought paint on the way home and by the end of the weekend it was Matt grey. Looked awesome but I was knackered, my index finger no longer worked (I used cans on the drive) and if I had to do it again I'd pay someone else to do it!
In Cornwall from memory?
T2 tintop? Green and white?
If so, I might know something about that paint job.
On the spraying front, old neighbour used to do his work vans in a car port with the ends sheeted.
I bought a top for a pick up truck once, it was the wrong colour so I sprayed that, bought a compressor with spray gun attachment, got my pait mixed by a proper motor factors place, balanced the top on my bins on the front grass and started spraying after a bit of masking up of the windows.
It looked very good in my opinion.
Little bit at a time is the only advice I can give. Oh and when there's flies about or not on a windy day.
My paint was metalic so needed paint then lacquered. The lacquer took longest to dry and was at risk of flies etc.