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      05-30-2025, 01:12 PM   #7
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Any suggestions on the different grits of sandpaper?
The trick is to wrap paper over horizontal block that overlaps the repair area. Then hold the block as horizontal to paint plane as possible.
This way you sand only over the touched-up paint spot, and not the healthy paint areas. Start with wet-sanding, and Go Slow!

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I do have 3000 grit and aggressive 120, 220 which is how I originally screwed it up...
Anything more coarse then 400 (really more than 800) is way too crude for car paint.
Start with 1500, and see if that does the trick. If not, go one level more coarse, or just go slow!

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