Ruined my hood paint what should I do
So I recently bought my first car, White 2006 Mazda 3 GT a cheap like 2k, now the car had soon minor paint problem, chips, scraps, and little bits rust here and there I though I could make the car look great again but its easier said then done. Like an idiot I started with the biggest panel the hood, there were lots of paint chips and rust come form the paint chip. I was impatient and started sanding and priming the little spot of bare metal, there was lots of overspray and had to sand alot of the primer. Then I got white paint in a can (dupli-color) that did not even match my car paint and started painting, figured I would blend it. Soon realized I was way over my head, spalatter, runs. Then I had to sand blend even more some parts blended pretty good, other parts just awful and I gave up, now 80% of my hood was screwed up, I realized an this point it was to late there was nothing I can do then finsh my mess. Then I cleared the entire hood with 3 coat of spraymax 2k clear coat, during my anxiety attack I didnt even end up clean up some area where sanded paint left strikes. After the clear coat hardened I had to clean it up orange peel and the imperection, sand it down and compund it. This is the only thing that came out ok. Now there are bits of the paint that blended ok and other bit that where no good, now since the hood is polished it does not look that bad when it sunny out, in low light area like streets light at night you an really see it. Now it really makes me feel like the biggest maron trying to paint it everytime I walk up to the car, I could have just polished the chips and spots of rust and dapped touch up paint, I know that now. But live and learn right. I posted some pic of it.
****I urge let this be a lesson to everyone to not be as stupid as me, PAINTING IS HARD, you need the proper tools and practice to really be able to do it right, and a car with 180k is never worth trying to paint yourself.
Now back to the matter at hand, the story really irrevelent I was just to give a warning to everyone, and honestly I needed to to vent to people. So the hood looks bad but the clearcoat is good. I just want to make the hood look atleast as good it did when I got it. So I was thinking since the car has a good clearcoat I could vinyl wrap the hood i think sometime subtle matte white wrap or anything that might look good, atleast the color would be uniform, however there is some sharp corners near the bottom of the hood that might be tricky to wrap. Then wondering about plasti dip but that paint again I really worried I could screw that up. My last option is to learn to live with it and maybe sometime in the future, if figure out how to paint really take the project seriously and spend the proper time and money and get matched paint (25D is a tri-coat I dont know how that going to work) and fix it. Vinyl seems like the best option a I only plan to have the car for like 2-3 year, i change the wrap or baby it for the life of the car and it should be less of an eye sore and vinyl is hard to screw up, I thinking I would get something form Vvivid Vinyl they have quite good products, but what color and finsh for a white car. So what do you all think I should do vinyl, plasti dip or let it be, Im not going get painted professional its just not worth the cost to reallt get it down well.
* dont bother calling be an idiot I know that that better then anyone, I guess I went alittle crazy once I bought the car it took a week for me to screw up the car, only really I screwed it up is because I figure since it was cheap car I could just fix kinda sorta fix it, definatly ruin any value the car could have had, I plan to run the car into the ground everything in the car is still great.
The brighter bits are the orginal paint its is a Tricoat White Pearl, the rest is me.
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Originally Posted by syasar
