I just painted my 924 last summer in my driveway, and it turned out great. I figured spending $300 in paint and $200 on a quality spray gun was much cheaper than the quoted $5000 at most body shops to have it done.

I smartest move I made was building a spray booth out of 2X4's and a roll of poly. Cut square holes on each end and taped furnace filters to them. Don't skimp on the prep work. It took weeks of sanding filler! (Yes, I'm a rooky)




And look at that shine! Although I would recommend a clear coat for longer protection (which I regret not doing).

 

Got any more pictures of your car in process?

 

As per your request...

 

 

I can't seem to post any more pictures. Is there a limit to how many you can post? I just comse up blank.

 

Trial #2
Here's a few more (if they work this time).

 

What about only painting part of the car and color matching. The rear bumper area on my car where the porsche decal is has surface rust which I have been putting off. My car is white so hopefully its easy. Is it hard to match colors? Is it a Porsche only color?

 

Alpine951, Take your gas filler pannel off and bring it into a paint store to match. They can usually do a 98% match or better. Your options are to spray just that area and blend the new paint in with some tedious sanding, or paint the whole rear pannel.

 

I would probably do the whole rear since my car has that plastic red Porsche panel between the brake lights and there is rust behind it. Plus the TURBO scroll on the rear panel has some rust under it and there is rust under the hatch weather strip. Is there anything special that needs to be done because its a Porsche? Special kind of paint? I guess not since some have done the spray can. I am just wondering if I got some of the instructional dvd's or books that it what I learned from them would be OK on my car.

 

That seems weird to me that your car has all of that rust...was it ever in a wreck that you know of?

 

PPI showed no signs of a wreck but defeintely a repaint.

 

ah. they probably sanded down to the bare metal... which is a HUGE no no on these cars...

 

You will want to determine what kind of paint is currently on your car. You are usually safe spraying an acrylic enamal paint, but be careful if you choose to spray a lacquer paint. Rub a bit of lacquer thinner on an inconspicuous part of your car to see if it reacts (suggesting an enamal based paint). Most modern paints are polyeurothane, which I would commend spraying, because of durrability.

Robert has a good point. The cars are all galvanised, and shouldn't rust. I had bare metal showing, and there was no rust to be seen on my car before I started.

 

Thanks for the shots!

 

How do you determine what is the galvinising layer and what does it look like?