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Once again. my notes/review as someone who works as an automotive painter: -good that you did a test panel, nice edge to edge application of the colour. -great to see you start with the edge of the panels like the bonnet to make sure you have full colour coverage although some of your low spots like the underside inner lip of the wings could have had a tad more colour. -something you could have done is flicked the cans spray fan out to the side when you where stopping spraying. just stopping could leave hard lines in the colour showing where you sprayed. if it had any metallic sparkle in the paint you'd see the job as very streaky/patchy. -contrary to Taylor thinking it was cringe id say he did a decent job with the colour on that front bumper. as for the orange peel on the door, with colour you want to go relatively light and slow, peel at this stage isn't massively important. -for the lacquer you could have used a 2k rattle can. what this does is allows for a more robust finish that will be chemical resistant. it does this by having an active hardener you break into it that makes the lacquer rock hard. with the colour and lacquer you guys used regular paint thinners could be used to wipe the whole thing down to bare metal. -to stop the can spitting make sure to clear build up from the tip every once in a while by either wiping it or hold can upside down and spray for a couple of seconds. as you already stated you just needed more lacquer on the vehicle as it looked fairly dry in some places, but you cant help a lack of material in the moment. to fix it I would 1500 grit sand the whole car smooth trying not to cut through to the colour and then give it 2 good coats of clear. was it a good paintjob overall? I would say barely, however the knowledge gained and your open honesty to show your mistakes makes me feel this project definitely wasn't a failure. to anyone viewing this as a fail I would disagree and say in my opinion the project size was simply too big for beginners to attempt. people can do ok paintjobs at home, but i would say its better one panel at a time. safety point: you should have all been wearing goggles and suits, the airborne paint will get into your skin and into your eyes. (if i don't say it someone will comment it to me saying i missed it...) summary: as a painter this makes me cry inside. as a viewer it was absolutely amazing to see you and Taylor try this out and it wasn't a terrible effort especially with the cost and experience level applied. well done and thanks for making me smile.

Been with you since you launched the channel and left (cough, cough...) some other channel. The inclusion of Taylor in your episodes and your unrehearsed banter is simply 'KZfaq Gold'. Keep up the good work Alex!

Honestly you 2 together (I guess we can throw Rory in there also...) is honestly peak content, I hope it continues for years

Kudos for showing the mistakes. Shows the true story of the car. U haven't hidden the bad bits away from the world, which is unusual in todays likes and views climate. Love your vids, and shitboxes 💪

as a professional paint sprayer I now have a better understanding of the thought processes of some of the almighty shit jobs we have to rectify. bloody funny episode though

This is golden you guys, your chemistry is uncanny. This is literally the worst paint job ever, love it hahahaa

In about 1982 I coach enameled my Hillman Imp in its original deep blue colour. I took a piece of the interior trim to a paint supplier and they made me up a one litre tin of enamel for £7. The old boy in charge asked me to bring back the car when I had painted it to show the lads how rich enamel can look. My friend Jack had a small domestic garage, he took a brush out of an old jam jar of turps and painted one half while I did the other. We spent an hour maybe on it and just shut the door on it. The next day we drove it out and were gobsmacked at the results. A depth of shine off the scale, not a single run, no brush marks or dust in the paint. I redid the white stripes down the sides, refitted the chrome trims. Several mates who were sprayers and body shop owners would not believe the results. The old boy at the body shop/ paint shop got all his staff to inspect the car and they did not believe it had not been sprayed in a body shop. He used his gun gizmo to measure the depth of the paint which was equal to 7 or 8 coats if sprayed. He knew how good it would look as he spent years brush painting London buses. He told me over a cuppa how as a young man many top line cars were enamel painted. I was a chuffed 18 year old with a shiny first car.

Alex.. please promise us, no matter how big this channel becomes, never stop working on and buying absolute shit boxes. It's what makes channel great and we wouldn't have it any other way.

Many years ago I sprayed an old Mini on my parents drive, I had a choice of navy blue or yellow (by coincidence the same colours of the vans at my Dad’s work). I chose navy blue and was quite proud of the results even though the paint was like a braille novel… I think you have surpassed me, the crown is yours!

Thank you, Alex and Taylor for inspiring me to not paint my car...

This has been a really funny video, the rust proofing comment followed by "its plastic" really made me chuckle

I've done a fuel tank of my bike once, used 2K clearcoat. turned out perfect. just 2 very shallow coats and 1 as thick as possible without getting runs. turned out great :)

After 30+ years as a professional painter, just wanted to comment on what a fantastic job you did and that's exactly the same process we use daily 👍

You've convinced me to never try painting a car myself, well done :)

Painting a car is like playing Poker. Takes 10 minutes to learn and Years to master. One tip I have found out when using spray cans is I will shake them then preheat to bring them up to a reasonable temp I do this by soaking the new cans in nearly hot water then shaking them again and always trying to spray with the cans at a minimum of 25c. Warm paint cans along with crazy amounts of shaking before and after and during to stir helps prevent stuff like the tips blocking that will ruin what you are painting.

Great stuff guys! I’ll be doing the same in my E12, but mine will be single stage with no lacquer. Last couple of days I’ve been looking into doing a cheap paint job on my car and this video has converted me. Seriously, it will happen!

Been so excited to see the second part of this!

LOVE this channel but I hope there will be another few CT cheap car road trips in the future. Those episodes are probably as good as peak Top Gear

Ohhhh nooooo 😂 I had such high hopes for this paint job! I mean I wasn't expecting a concourse level paint job but I really thought you might have pulled off something half decent and passable 🤦🏻‍♂️ How naive of me.

Now this is true car guy experience, trying new things with our mates. Thought we did great, and messed up at the end. Another experience shared which will make us laugh together everytime we thought about it. Love the content Alex!

You should wet sand before applying the clear coat :D

Well you guys got the sanding experience. I took my 911 to bare metal. Then I gave it a few coats of primer, smoothed out any dents in the metal and then wrapped it with a cheap matte black wrap. I will say wrapping the car takes forever but it has its benefits if you can’t achieve a professional paint job. Spent $20 on sand paper, $90 on a high quality orbital sander to use with my air compressor and $470 on vinyl wrap. 75ft x 5ft of material so plenty of left over roll

So happy to see this car back again Alex ❤️ hope to see more of Fabrizio soon 🤝

Yay get stuff done! Would love to see you guys improve at this car stuff over time :D

a good result can be done with rattle cans, but its hard and actually very expensive for a full car. But rolling hammarite fence paint is super easy and looks fantastic(ish), if you like matt. great video like always.

I painted my BMW 340i's front bumper with rattle cans and also kind of screwed it up again, so sanded and give it another go and it ended up IMPRESSIVE. Nobody believed me it was spray-can painted :) I used a 2k Clear with great quality on the 2nd time and that made a LOT of difference. Also after 45 mins of drying, pulled it outside to the sun for "cooking" for several hours (about 6 hours at 95 degrees F). A week later I 2-step polished the bumper and that's it. FYI if you'll be polishing it to perfection, make sure to add a TON of 2k CLEAR lacquer on top of the color. That thing wears fast :D

How ironic it's now snowing in the UK again 🌨 😂

Class vid. Laughed my knackers off more than once. Thanks chaps!!

Love the honesty of this one chaps and owning that it’s kind of a mess. Looks pretty good until you get close 😂

Trick to rattle can use....less is more. From what I can see it was applied to thick. Thin coats where u can almost see the previous through it and let it dry befor spraying more on. I've done cars that way befor and looked good after.

This was very enlightening, a no bs breakdown of why people get paid to spray cars. Also, as a subscriber I have no issue with a few tongue-in-cheek insults being thrown at me! Well done for giving it a go and saving us all a load of stress. 👍😂😀

nice one lads loved this episode paint is my nemesis too but fairplay for having a go 😂😂

The secret is not in the paining, but in the polishing afterwards. I have rattle can sprayed cars and they have turned out pretty good. 1600 and 2000 grit wet and dry are your best friends when doing this.

Hold the phone!! Electron Blue pearl Civic EM1 at the very end!! PLEASE do more videos on that car. Those were gems here in the USA, people loved them!!!!

Loved this series, i did think the colour had changed when it was in the background of the last vid. Love the content, varied, fun and great viewing.

Actually spraying the paint doesn't really matter so much, (though obviously the better it is the less work). Its the prep and finish that matters. A mate of mine used a paint brush to do the engine bay on a mk9 Jag years ago, it came out smooth as glass when he was done.

Been a while haha, can't wait to see the result 🤣

Best car channel on KZfaq

Alex - “that’s rust proofing isn’t it” Taylor - “it’s plastic….” 🤣🤣🤣

I’ve waited about 3 million weeks to see how this turned out 😂

Makes me feel a whole lot better knowing it took me 8 months to paint my own car so thanks for that 🤣😅

7:20 Taylor: “mask up, it’s got an A and an R in it”😅

I have to say this the paint job is absolutely crackin, especially for £300, I give it 5 stars…. for a scrapyard😂❤

You can do a fairly decent job with cans. I once did a whole front bumper / spoiler. And once flat sanded with 2500 grade, and then mopped it looked really good. Its all about the preparation and time put into it. Clearly here that didnt happen.

Lol... I can't stop laughing ... well done guys superb content 🙂👍

You'll have to try coach paint and a roller. Or MOD paint and a roller. Piece of cake, no runs, loads of people do that with their campervans, you would never know they were painted with a roller, they look good. I will say though, I used to spray paint commercial vehicles, mostly the box trailers, curtain siders and car transporters, the finishes were spot on 😁

It's strange how Alex went out his own, in the second video walked into Taylor's shop, and now it's a duo channel.

Just goes to show, you pay for what you get, great content as usual 👌🏻

Keep up the amazing content as always Alex :)

I didn't have high hopes for this, but oh boy. Fucking hilarious to watch!

Yea man, Febrizio is gonna look dapper. Need to know that DnB track featured... Love that liquid style chilled melodic style.

Loved every cringe filled minute of this episode haha :) Hope you guys make some more episodes on the coupe, such an underrated car.

🚙 & 🍊 spot the difference 5p a go 🤣🤣🤣 comedy gold guys

Tried spraying a front bumper once... never again. Pretty much the same results as you got, uneven spray and just runs everywhere! Got a new found respect for the pros

14:25 from Taylor had me in absolute hysterics! Brilliant stuff lads!

You notice how Alex, was heading behind the car to reach the roof while spraying? Who wants to place money he was standing on a box 😂😂😂

Amazingly genuine and good content you are doing here!

Would be cool to see you try boat topside paint. You can use a wet paintbrush to give a gloss finish and you won't need a clear coat. It avoids many of these issues with spray paint.

300 pound paint job which costs 900 pounds, I'm subscribing.

Vice grip garage and Pole Barn Garage have good how to videos on the rattle can, diy, budget paint job

Loved that impression of your subscribers. 🤣 Literally the one thing that stuck in my mind when I started watching this vid hahha.

Mate I feel your pain! I re-painted my Moto Guzzi, most of it went fine (rear mudguard came out like glass). Then it came to the tank; got dust in the colour, right, flat that back, bugger, gone too far so another coat of colour. Then petrol resistant lacquer; first coat, fine, second coat, the lacquer reacted with ITSELF!? HOW?? FML! 🤦‍♂️ haven’t had the inclination to redo it and it buggered up 50 quids worth of decals too…😑

Can be done with cans. Have just painted a vw t5 in a two tone paint job using the original white up top & amg petronas green underneath. Looks like a mirror

Fantastic, eventually got round to it, well done for showing the good and not so good bits, your banter is golden, and is one of the highlights of the week, cheers guys for the entertainment

I've wanted to try this for a while. Thankyou for persuading me never to try it ever ever ever. Might still try the self-levelling roller technique one day though, because I'm obviously an idiot.

"Im sick and tired of people .....(waffles on)....Oh shit no their my subscribers!Love you guys,anyway...(starts waffling again)..."😂😂

“T - You’ve painted the entire wheel arch! A - Well that’s rust proofing isn’t it. T - It’s plastic” pissed myself laughing at that bit! Legends at work!

I tried fixing some spots on my first car that was 1997 Passat. It didn’t turn out that well. I would never attempt an entire car but it was interesting to see you try. It looked not to bad at first but then you could see how bad it was.

I laughed so much at this video. You guys are what make KZfaq awesome. Best channel on KZfaq right here.

3:28 can confirm Appreciate how sky high you all would have been without an exhaust on that shed

When using rattle cans in cold weather fill a bucket with hot water(Not boiling) and put all your cans in and use them from there . Paint mixes in can much easier and pressure stays preventing sllatters

Alex, mate this is actually great stuff and content. Sick of people showing only successes. You showed the real stuff and another lesson learned from your financial mistakes!

I've done this earlier. Yes, with rattle cans. Sanding, primer, sanding, primer, sanding, color coat 2x, clear 2x. And THEN, started wet sanding the whole car with P1500,P2000,P3000 and a two step polish to mirror shine as well. Good things: Once I finished with the polishing, the panel looked like factory new without any bragging. Problems: After a week a shine was gone, the whole car looked like rubbish again (Mini R53). Rattle cans are fouken expensive, what's more, they got so so little amount of goodie in it, that this makes it horribly spendy, especially when you are trying to spray paint the whole chassis, not just a certain part, or a panel. Solution: Make some research, read, watch KZfaq videos, experiment. After that is all done, buy a decent air compressor with the necessary bits, buy automotive paint and 2K primer/ clear coat for a FRACTION of the money you would spend on rattle cans. This way your clear will be 3 times harder than a normal rattle can clear, and when you realize what a completely rubbish job you've done on the car, you can still wet sand it, polish it, and after all that shitestorm, the car will look good, and hopefully stay that way, for a couple of years. OR NOT. On the other hand thank you guys so much for this part! I had to reverse each bit to have enough time to laugh. :D

Instead of taking it to a proper bodyshop I would love to see you guys figuring out how to do it “properly” i.e. do it with a paint gun and proper paint, perhaps with some help from an expert. Although I guess at this point you guys are probably not looking forward to more prepwork and painting. Would personally love to see it though, wether that makes a real difference and how hard it would be to do for someone who’s never done it before. Just a suggestion 😄 Loved the video and love the channel, cheers!

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In my youth I found that the old school high voc gloss worked wonderfully for cars. Either with a brush, or thin it a little and spray it. It certainly didn't rust after that!

Been following the new channel Since the 1st video one of the few I look forward to watching keep up the good work mate.

I've done a few rattle can jobs before. 2 thin coats, sand, 1 thick coat, sand, lacquer, polish... Jobs a good one.

Auto Alex is one of the best channels on KZfaq hands down I love it

I know EXACTLY what happened. The boys were sat around chatting about the respray and someone asked "How hard can it be?" and as we know, that is a fatal question. And as it turned out, the boys were truly ambitious, but rubbish. All we needed was for someone to yell "cock" and we had Top Gear Bingo. But to be fair, kudos for having a go, and showing the crappy job you did, and then not just playing it off as the plan all along. So to answer the question; how hard is it to respray a whole car yourself; VERY. And you should get a professional to do it. And ultimately, it means you've given good consumer advice...

I love this kind of humour 😂 this is priceless 😂 this channel is gold

Better than it was lol. Being perfect with a rattle can across a whole car is a tough task. You did try your best, with very limited equipment. Good fun!

I rattle canned a old Impreza I had it was really nice I think this can b fixed use Stanley blades to cut the runs in lacquer and 3000 grit sand paper

Taylor: "All of the people watching this that work in bodyshops are gonna cringe at what we're doing" MINUTES OF SLOW MOTION BAD TECHNIQUE INTENSIFIES Genuinely burst out laughing when the engine bay had blue LOL

The ADHD is real people, but also, so is the success. Great to see Alex having struck out on his own and it really having gone so well after a really good chunk of time. I mean K&N sponsor! Nice

This is f**king hilarious 🤣🤣🤣 I ❤ it, end result looks amazing 👌 Great job 😭

tack cloth, wetsand before clear and a good 2K clear make wonders

Hi. I have paint my left side of a car whith spray and than clear code on 3 hands. After that wet saint paper and polish. It was great. The same color of a original paint.

My main takeaway from this video is that you can rotate the fan spray nozzle on rattle cans - I genuinely didnt know that 😂 I'd always been awkwardly trying to paint sideways on vertical bits 😂😂

Loving the videos Alex!! Like a rattle can Picasso!

I can't even begin to imagine the forearm cramps from attempting to rattle can a whole car!!??😂

Ian Seabrook / Hubnut painted Foxanne with household emulsion, maybe you should have tried the same? Back in the early 80s I tried to repair the front wing on a 10 year old Renault 5. Used an entire rattle can on just one wing. The paint is probably still not dry 😂

I once painted my KE70 in brake calliper blue rattle cans. Incredibly similar to what you're doing now. I really wanted to paint an entire car with rattle cans. Did the rocker cover too. The car turned out mint...from a distance. Still got the transformation photos, would do it again!

ALEX GOT THE PERFECT CAR FOR YA, old clk rare as anything in a manual. High mileage hero with original clutch and everything still runs a dream 210hp and 65mpg oh and abit of rust. Yours for a cheap price mate

Yeah doing this is the worst!!! now you should try a hard colour!! Gecko Green (488) it is crazy hard because of the mattelic in it as well lol

Am I the only one who likes the way Alex says "very" 🤷🏼 I love hearing him say it😄

Most I would ever do myself with a rattle can is a mirror housing. The small area and curved surface hides all manner of sins, and the gap from the painted bodyshell allows a degree of colour mismatch. Done a few of these now (on older cars) that look more than acceptable. For absolutely everything else, just pay a body shop.

It's still a pleasure to watch CT or AA Alex and Taylor are motoring comedians

You need to do a DIY wrap!!