what is high fill when getting a car resprayed?

[admir87]

i know this might be the wrong place to put this but interested in knowing

what is high fill when getting a car resprayed, whats the advantages/dissadvantages?

also what is 2pak paint compared to normal?

and what benefits do you get from baking?

and also have a mates cousin who is willing to spray a calais for $1800. standard mattalic colour, outside only. do you think it i can get a quality job for that price?

[westbad]

i know this might be the wrong place to put this but interested in knowing

what is high fill when getting a car resprayed, whats the advantages/dissadvantages?

also what is 2pak paint compared to normal?

and what benefits do you get from baking?

and also have a mates cousin who is willing to spray a calais for $1800. standard mattalic colour, outside only. do you think it i can get a quality job for that price?

High fill, is a high build primer which is applied to panels that have had repairs done with filler, it fills in all the scrarches left in the filler work before final priming and colour. As for advantages etc.. if you dont use it your paint will sink and you will see rings scratches etc and will generally look shite.

2k (2pak) paint is normal paint lol it is what we have used in the panel shops for years, i personally wont paint anything with acrylic its just an inferior paint and the end finish will be no where near as good as 2k.

There are no benefits from baking really, we use spray booths to bake the cars to speed up the process, 2k paint goes off by a chemical reaction between the hardener and the clear/primer etc heat just speeds this process up.
If you bake a freshly painted car at 70 degrees C for 30 mins it will be touch dry,where as if you let it air dry it would have to be left over night.
2k paint is totally different from acrylic paint, as acrylic paint goes off by way of evaperating the solvents from it, no hardener is needed with acrylic just thinners.

Ive been painting cars for years i finished my apprentaship around 2003/2004 and have been quallified since. I would not paint a car in anything but 2k.

With paint jobs you tent to get what you pay for, buy cheap paint and get shit finish
buy good paint get a pro on the job and you will get a good finish.

hope this helps.

[DannyboyDS]

there is a HUGE benifit to baking, once the paint is touch dry nothing can insert itself in it from the atmosphere.

Other then that i'll shutup now.

Unless your paint is ruined, i'd save the coin. try getitng the car detailed by a pro first.