the main issue is that i had a six inch long paint ' blister ' under the topcoat ( no lacquer ) behind the drivers side black vent cover behind the rear side window, this blister appeared not long after being painted and could have been contamination,water or some other issue that made it lift, but lift it did , i didnt take any action to start with as it was still sealed , but towards the end of last summer the blister split open exposing the undercoat , now i had to take action , i tried ' filling ' with some mixed paint but that was unsuccessful , and so i called in my brother who paints cars for a living ( but did not originally do mine as there was no space at his place of employment )
he decided that the only way was to carefully cut out the blister, and use some ultra fine body filler known as Dolphin Glaze to make up the surface , prime and apply the same paint as the car was originally painted with , as i have a couple of litres of it from when the job was done, just for this type of repair ( same batch and all that )
the picture below was taken after the filler was applied, and shaped to the finished result and primer applied, i didn't take any earlier pictures as i was keeping him in coffee and danish pastries , and bacon and mushroom butties.....
IMG_2277 by MyPix on Talk Photography
all masked up and smoothed back again the surface was keyed to apply the top coat, this will be soft edged to the surround and masked to the swage line in the body ,
IMG_2280 by MyPix on Talk Photography
then a 50% paint to thinners 2K mix of paint was applied in several light coats by his expert hand, flashing off the paint in between
IMG_2283 by MyPix on Talk Photography
a close up of the now finished and curing paint
IMG_2284 by
MyPix on Talk Photography
this was left overnight with my infrared heater helping it to dry ,
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