Front bumper dull look

[Steve McF]

I recently did a bit of bumper painting on my son's Focus. When I got the paint for that, I got a rattle can for the Saab as well as I have to paint an Aero front spoiler lip, and a cover for my sharkfin aerial.

However, the front bumper has dull paint in areas that I suspect have been previously been rattle-canned. So I am wondering if I am better off rubbing the surface down and spraying with my mixed rattle can when I do the spoiler lip and sharkfin cover, or rubbing down the existing paint and just lacquering it?

Any tboughts/recommendations?

[sgould]

As you car is plain black and not metallic, you may get away with some rubbing compound and a coat of lacquer.

[Steve McF]

That's what I'm wondering. Got to be worth a go. If the base coat starts to come off, then I revert to plan B with my 170 black rattle can

[Steve McF]

Was just looking at this again.....still a job I want to do, but what I found with the lacquer on my son's Focus was that it didn't come up as shiny as the original bodywork adjoining the bumper.

Is it just a case of adding more layers of lacquer before a thorough polishing, or are there different types of lacquer, some of which give off a better shine/finish?

[carrera]

There are different grades of clear lacqueer

I got a better one from my local motor factors. Applied better, finer spray pattern, much better finish, about £8 / can rather than £4.50, but worth it

[Steve McF]

Do you know what that was called?

I might wander down to Paintstore and see what they recommend.

[sgould]

The lacquer I got from https://www.paints4u.com  is still shiny after several years.

[carrera]

I can't, but a quick image search did the job