Designed for versatility, the Aerosol Essential Kit provides Colorcoat and Clearcoat—ideal for repainting parts or extending your current project.
In this video, we're going to show you how to fix a mismatched color. While we always recommend doing a test card, sometimes accidents happen. In this case, this color does not match the original color.
This can happen for a number of reasons. Maybe we made a mistake and sent you the wrong thing. Maybe someone ordered the wrong thing.
Regardless, we're gonna show you how to fix it. In this case the entire mirror was Clearcoated. We're not going to be concerned with removing the paint.
We're only going to scuff it up and respray it with the correct color. The easiest way to do that is to use 1000 grit sandpaper, a cup of water and wet sand it. What we're doing here is just removing the gloss.
You just want to scuff it up. You do not want to get down into the white Basecoat. We're going to paint over the current Clearcoat.
We've scuffed the entire area. There's no need to reprime. This is perfectly fine to paint color directly on this scuffed surface.
We're just gonna use a tack cloth to clean it off and then we're going to apply our first coat of color. Now we're ready for our first coat of paint. The entire area has been scuffed up.
Meaning that the gloss is gone. We've also put this little roll of tape underneath here, just so I can get good, even coverage all the way around the mirror. This mirror cap happens to be Tesla Catalina White.
The entire mirror will be a solid white color when we're done. Now going to apply our first coat. Hold the can about 8-12" away from the object.
Even strokes all the way around. I like to do the edges first and then come back and thoroughly coat the entire area. We'll let that first coat dry.
One thing you want to remember. Always carry the can beyond the area you're painting. Start before the area and end after.
That will ensure that the fan spray is even and uniform across the entire piece. Once the first coat is dry, which is usually about 15-20 minutes or you have a uniform matte finish. You're ready for the next coat.
Now that we have good coverage, you can see both sides are the correct color. We're ready for a Clearcoat. We're gonna let that dry.
While it can be frustrating if you've finished your paint job and the color comes out incorrectly, you can see that it's easy to repair.