![]() This is when you put on your first coat of slow reducer and let it dry off. Your first pass of clear goes up to the first orange tape line and covers the silver basecoat. ![]() I used some orange tape so you could more easily see when and where I applied a coat of very thin slow reducer with 5 percent catalyzed clearcoat added to it. I first prepped the area to blend beyond my silver basecoat by buffing it, then wax and degreasing it. ![]() The photos in this article show a job I just did where I used this technique. The trick is to soften up the factory clear enough to actually melt the two together. You need to blend into the sail panel, otherwise you have to clear the entire roof and the opposite quarter panel. Painting a quarter panel on some cars that don’t have a break line is the classic reason why you need to know how to do this.
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