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Painting a Car at Home Part 3: Spraying Those Topcoats | Articles

Painting a Car at Home Part 3: Spraying Those Topcoats | Articles

Since you never miss an issue of GRM, we know you’ve already read the previous two installments of our “Paint at Home” series. If not, here is part 1, and here is part 2. The first showed us stripping our BMW’s paint and fixing its imperfections with hammers and body filler. The second covered the iterative process of priming and block sanding.

These two chapters represent about 100 hours of work leading up to about 4 hours of actual painting. And after that, we spent another 20 hours sanding and buffing the car to remove the dirt and imperfections left behind from our less-than-perfect garage-cum-spray booth. The resulting paint job may not win Pebble Beach, but it sure gets us big compliments everywhere else.

Now, watch as we take our E30 from gray primer to an eye-popping blue.

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