Orange Cabby Project!!! With Pics :) UPDATED!!!

Another thing to consider Jay is because there is no lacquer on the car you are obviously going straight at the paint so maybe you could get some good results from just trying out some different polish and pad combinations and trying to remove as little paint as possible. I could'nt guarantee that will remove all the orange peel tho.

what about if i tried first with some autoglym paint renovator, its slightly abrasive and use a machine polisher to do it with?

Hi,
I have a case of orange peel on my car and asked at the HEX holdings paint shop their answer was:

You always get some orange peel with paintwork you have a few options:

1) Leave it and just apply a good polish.

2) By hand:
Use wet and dry sand paper (about 1200 to 1400grit) with plenty of soapy water and a sanding block.
Then use Farecla G4 rubbing compound (G4 is the cheapest and v-good)
Then use a wax polish such as Farecla finishing compound.
Doing it by hand is the slowest but most effective way - and it will get you arms like Popeye.
* They did also say you could leave out the Wet&Dry and just start with the G4 - lot more rubbing though!

3) Machine polishing:
I asked a spray Painter and Hex Holdings both said dont go down this route unless you have experience.
The painter said he had loaned his polisher to a friend who hod some limited experience - he said this guy went through the paint on almost every edge of the bodywork.
If you chose to go down this route you need a polisher - bit like an angle grinder but spins slower. The cheapest costs about ?30.
There are also many different heads for these things and they can get quite expensive.

In my view I'd say have a go at hand polishing, if that fails take it  to a painter to have it machine polished.
Could always have it re-sprayed…

All the best.

In my opinion doing it by hand is not the most effective way, the finish won't be as good and if you go down the route of wet sanding you won't get the wet sanding marks out. Even with a machine you are not guaranteed to get the orange peel out.

Ok so got loads more done its coming on now,

Many thanks to paul c who came and gave me a hand and got the engine loom in place and told me loads of parts that im missing which iv now sourced so ill prob be needing you again soon lol

Anyway here are some pics for everyone,

Picked interior up and got it fitted so inside is much nicer and just needs a few bits doing now







Got all 4 wheels, mirrors, grill and roof with torneaux cover and wipers fitted















finally got chrome door locks and pins fitted and thats it up to now,





Well let me know what you think, hopefully have it finished in the next few months, fingers crossed

i saw this car when brad owned it paint is very orange peely i would go down route of wet flatting 1500 wet/dry loads of water clean and flatting block steady as u go. then machine buff with a variable speed buffer not fast using a cherry glaze polish do not get to hot .

if you can, try and get hold of a paint depth guage as this will tell you how much paint there actually is, standard readings with laquer read around 130-150 microns, resprayed panels are usually more.

this will tell you how to approach wet flatting and polising, just polishing with a rotary polisher removes about 10 microns with a mild polish, wet flatting requires a more agressive polish in order to remove all the flatting marks and as you are also removing paint this rapidly reduces what you have left to play with.

if you are definately going down the route of polishing it make sure you can competantly use a rotary as its very easy to burn through edges or dwell on one spot too long. it may be an idea to look at using a dual action polisher as they ramdomly orbit and therefore do not generate anywhere near as much heat build up but result are the same, it will just take abit longer.

if it was me, i would flat the whole car back using the 2 bucket method (to avoid any fine scratches) and jus get the whole thing clear coated. the result will be a much better finish, deeper shine and will be much better in the long run for protecting the paint

my 2pence worth anyhow :wink:

Its orange - the orange peel suits it. Problem solved.

lol as paul says!

the orange peel isnt that bad and i just wanna get the car complete and mot'd and going then once its done i will sort out the paintwork, it looks presentable to its not an issue at the moment!

also if people read the thread properly weve all been through ways of getting rid of the orange peel,

cheers

jay