How to sand a car down!

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You can also save your arms and buy (or rent) a DA sander if you have an air compressor. Places who sell these usually have the matching paper and pads for the sander I ususally start with 180 and 220 if im stripping down a car. You dont have to wet sand untill you get the color. Ive never seen anyone wet sand a car when they're stripping it. Usually the primer they put on cars is high build, especially for show cars, so it should fill in most scratches made by 200g or finer, as its usually blocked down and repeated a bunch of times with a guide coat. For my car, i went up to 400 before i put primer on it

its really not as hard as some people make it seem. Its kinda labor intensive but with the right tools, they can lighten the load. Like prosoto said, remove everything you dont want sanded OR painted on, that includes lights, trim, badges and everything. All your badges can be re-stuck on later. Strip it down with 180 untill everything is dull and primer starts seeping thru. Just keep repeating up to 320 or 400. You dont have to go all the way down to metal. hose the car down with air cause whoever paints the car has to tack it with tack cloth (this removes all dust and paint particles left behind by sanding) then your done with the car. Do the same to your door trim pieces that you DO want painted. Then hand everything off to the guy thats gonna paint it.

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best way is to hand sand it, imo, when you use a DA sander you dont realize how much you are taking off, like you could sand away the body lines and make them wavey. i have always sand by hand. it takes more time, but you can feel everything and not take off as much. or block sand the flat areas and around seems and lines by hand. but use a soft flexible sanding block, not a hard one.