{"id":732,"date":"2007-07-01T23:24:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-01T23:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=732"},"modified":"2007-07-01T23:24:40","modified_gmt":"2007-07-01T23:24:40","slug":"convertible-paint-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/convertible-paint-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"Convertible Paint Finished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photo_zoom.gne?id=687875318&#038;size=l\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1019\/687875318_3d39bc9d35.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"Last clear coat done\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I talked to the experts at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paintworldinc.com\">Paint World<\/a> and upon their recommendation, added a third coat of clear to the hood.  That made all the difference to get the repainted hood to match the shine of the fenders.  I had some paint and clear coat left over so I also repainted the rear panel around the taillights and license plate.  Considering I only got a single coat of primer, single coat of color, and single coat of clear on the rear, it looks pretty good.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photo_zoom.gne?id=687875282&#038;size=l\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1405\/687875282_895119bf62.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"Rear done too\" width=\"450\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had the car for just over a year now.  Here&#8217;s what the hood looked like when I started:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photo_zoom.gne?id=701514646&#038;size=l\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1110\/701514646_2e65983bb7.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"Hood before\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the rear panel:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photo_zoom.gne?id=701514800&#038;size=l\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1025\/701514800_63d5bd5c45.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"Dull rear\" width=\"450\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I talked to the experts at Paint World and upon their recommendation, added a third coat of clear to the hood. That made all the difference to get the repainted hood to match the shine of the fenders. I had some paint and clear coat left over so I also repainted the rear panel around &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/convertible-paint-finished\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Convertible Paint Finished&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[48,81,94,194],"class_list":["post-732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmw","category-diy","tag-bmw-cca","tag-convertible","tag-diy","tag-paint"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}