Painting. Options

[dabbill]

I am getting ready to do some body work to fix, a few dents / scratches. Around the first of the year I am going to try for a body kit. I am going to repaint it the same color, cause for one I like teal, and two there is like no teal ones where I live. My question is should I just shoot the car, or should i sand it all down, and primer it then shoot it. I would think I could just shoot over the old paint, sence I am not changing the color.

[flipside97LTD]

There is absolutely NO reason to take it to bare metal and you'd be a fool to do that. You'd open up the possibility of rust and you'd be wasting A LOT of time to sand 3 or 4 layers of paint off.

If you sandblast any metal on the body of your car, you're going to warp the metal up so bad, you might as well drop your car off a bridge. That's like totalling your own car on purpose. Don't even think about sand blasting it. '

DA the areas to be painted with 320 grit sand paper and then wet sand with 500. That's all you need to do to repaint the car.