stripping maaco

[turnofftheradio]

been a while since I posted, been buisy.... anyways, today, I started stripping off what maaco called a paint job on the bmw. using only a brillo pad and hope I removed a 6" section in hopes to find some useable paint underneath. Good news for me! turns out the paint is in a good/fair condition and really shined up with ssr3-2-1. I'm excited to remove the rest of the black. I'll be sure to post a pic or two after a whole panel is complete. I figure a week or two and a couple of beers later I will have a blue bmw. I didn't actually think this would work!

[Brad]

Wow.. that's ballsy! Glad it's working out for you though :D Gotta wonder why anyone would put maaco crap over decent paint?

[turnofftheradio]

well, I won't mention names, but it is an xceed member. he has my yellow bronco and plans to maaco over my $3k yellow paint job with black on that too. makes me want to cry. but I don't miss $120 fillups all I can say is the guy loves black i guess.

[Bob]

Glad the paint is coming off fairly easy!

[turnofftheradio]

yeah, there wasnt much prep done, looks like a green scrubby pad then primer. I found 2 tone pinstripes today. cool! of course, I am prepared to accept that there must be some paint damage under there, and some touch up will be required. but worst case scenario, I take it to rotan and repaint in cosmoblau.

[Brad]

You'll have to post pictures of this once you're done. I'm curious how it turns out.

[turnofftheradio]

I'll post pics this weekend. turning out better than expected. paint is good, although clear is not. so a quick respray of clear should bring it back. I only have 1 fender done, but, I have only spent like 3-4 hrs. total on it. been busy as usual. I will probably just respray clear at rotan in canada to save a few $. I was really hoping that I had a single stage paint, my color came in both, but I guess that in 85 they only used base/clear. overall, pretty easy to do.

[Bob]

Can't wait to see progress pics of this!

[wytstang]

This is gonna be good I really want to see the final results.