OK boys and girls, I’m going to chat about cutting and buffing the paint job on your car, this subject is touchy with a lot of people, who think that this step in unnecessary, and this would of course depend on what you want the car to look like when it’s completed, a cut and buffed paint job looks completely different from a non cut and buffed paint job, and yes there is a significant risk to your paint job if the person who’s doing the cutting and buffing has no experience with the process, it can devastate your new paint job, and you don’t need to re-paint your car, so be sure that they know what they are doing.
The first step after you pull the car out of the paint booth should be to unmask it, and then I suggest re-masking the car with clean masking paper, but you don’t really need to do this if you don’t want to, cleaning the buffing compound off of the car will be a lot harder if you don’t mask it again, it just kind of depends on were you want to spend your time, in my opinion it should always be done.
Now that we have that out of the way, before yo mask the car you should wash it, and then blow it off with compressed air to remove the excess water, the car can’t be clean enough before you do this step, now before I explain to you the process of cutting and buffing, I’m going to explain the draw backs of cutting and buffing the car, the reasons why a lot of people don’t like to do it.
1. The potential to da
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