I am trying to fix a small dent... well multiple small dents on the cheap. Example below. My plan is to use the original faded paint on the barracuda as the primer coat sand with some fine grit and do some minor bondo work on door dings ect. Then I plan on spray painting with rattle cans with a 2X rustoleum paint primer and paint included. I am choosing a brighter color close to a B3 blue. My question is what are some simple steps to make sure bondo sticks.
Earl Scheib.
If you are going to scratch the car later anyway, why worry about the dings unless you want to protect them from rusting through? Which would be a good thing for doing it right later.
The car has years of oxidation and needs complete hand sanding at least.
For the time (of which you have little) and even the cost of the cans, bondo sandpaper, cleaner, tackclothes and etc (lots enough o money).
I hate to say let a fast cheapo outfit do it.
They have the material and equipment on hand and it will give you one solid color.
No runs
No drips
No errors
Only 39 99 no ups no extras
Might just be a bit more though now
These cheap jobs are just like the paint you have on the car now. Don't let them up sell you on anything like base coat clear coat and you should get out of there with your shirt on for less than 500 bucks. Watch for sales and get done for 300.
Remember it won't be a great job but it will be better than anything you do in your garage. No one has yet warned you about cats eye or dust in the from your floor and outside crapping up your job and looking gritty. Even if you do beautiful spraying and bondo there is plenty to goof up a garage spray job.
Best wishes. Anything can be fixed again. No worries, but praying is a good thing too.
