Spots on hood, ok to paint it matte black as a fix?
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Spots on hood, ok to paint it matte black as a fix?
So I recently bought an 03 350z from a guy who owned a performance shop, and it was his brothers car. The car is black, and the paint is in very good condition considering how many miles it has on it. But before the guy sold it to me, I think they kind of did a quick wax, and they hadn't completely cleaned the car, and some kind of tree sap or something is now sealed onto the hood in multiple spots. I have tried washing it with dish detergent to remove the wax and then a clay bar, but the wax will not come off. So I'm thinking about getting it just painted matte black. What do you guys think about it?
Edit: Forgot to put, also want to black out my headlights
Edit: Forgot to put, also want to black out my headlights
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Back in olden times when school buses plied the highways and byways of rural America, little kids would routinely get flattened dashing across the road to catch the bus. By 1939 the problem had grown so bad that a conference was organized to standardize a nationwide color-scheme for school buses. Even though the conference was just a thinly veiled junket to live it up in New York. The color, which was just randomly chosen from the golden hue of a stray pastie from a stripper at a burlesque show, was actually an excellent choice. Extensive studies have shown this shade of yellow (School Bus Yellow) can be detected 50% faster by your peripheral vision than darker hues and 25% faster than lighter ones.
In life sometimes we solve one problem, only to cause another. School busses are operated in the early morning and late afternoon. At these times the low angle of the sun causes glare and visibility problems for the drivers. The sun reflecting off the big high yellow hoods just made this worse. The answer was to paint the hood flat black to absorb the bright, reflected light.
Young car enthusiasts working at government garages are always prone to steal supplies for their hobby. Even though quantities of the bright yellow bus paint were plentiful, the young hot rod drivers didn’t want their rides to stand out during moonlighting runs and such. The alternative was the flat black paint. This worked out ok, as it was kinda bad azz, you could hide in the shadows when up to no-good, and best of all, it hid all kinds of sloppy body and paint prep work.
The gist of this story is, unless you want to look like a school bus driver, or someone who does sloppy body work, stay away from the ‘flat black hood look.
In life sometimes we solve one problem, only to cause another. School busses are operated in the early morning and late afternoon. At these times the low angle of the sun causes glare and visibility problems for the drivers. The sun reflecting off the big high yellow hoods just made this worse. The answer was to paint the hood flat black to absorb the bright, reflected light.
Young car enthusiasts working at government garages are always prone to steal supplies for their hobby. Even though quantities of the bright yellow bus paint were plentiful, the young hot rod drivers didn’t want their rides to stand out during moonlighting runs and such. The alternative was the flat black paint. This worked out ok, as it was kinda bad azz, you could hide in the shadows when up to no-good, and best of all, it hid all kinds of sloppy body and paint prep work.
The gist of this story is, unless you want to look like a school bus driver, or someone who does sloppy body work, stay away from the ‘flat black hood look.
Back in olden times when school buses plied the highways and byways of rural America, little kids would routinely get flattened dashing across the road to catch the bus. By 1939 the problem had grown so bad that a conference was organized to standardize a nationwide color-scheme for school buses. Even though the conference was just a thinly veiled junket to live it up in New York. The color, which was just randomly chosen from the golden hue of a stray pastie from a stripper at a burlesque show, was actually an excellent choice. Extensive studies have shown this shade of yellow (School Bus Yellow) can be detected 50% faster by your peripheral vision than darker hues and 25% faster than lighter ones.
In life sometimes we solve one problem, only to cause another. School busses are operated in the early morning and late afternoon. At these times the low angle of the sun causes glare and visibility problems for the drivers. The sun reflecting off the big high yellow hoods just made this worse. The answer was to paint the hood flat black to absorb the bright, reflected light.
Young car enthusiasts working at government garages are always prone to steal supplies for their hobby. Even though quantities of the bright yellow bus paint were plentiful, the young hot rod drivers didn’t want their rides to stand out during moonlighting runs and such. The alternative was the flat black paint. This worked out ok, as it was kinda bad azz, you could hide in the shadows when up to no-good, and best of all, it hid all kinds of sloppy body and paint prep work.
The gist of this story is, unless you want to look like a school bus driver, or someone who does sloppy body work, stay away from the ‘flat black hood look.
In life sometimes we solve one problem, only to cause another. School busses are operated in the early morning and late afternoon. At these times the low angle of the sun causes glare and visibility problems for the drivers. The sun reflecting off the big high yellow hoods just made this worse. The answer was to paint the hood flat black to absorb the bright, reflected light.
Young car enthusiasts working at government garages are always prone to steal supplies for their hobby. Even though quantities of the bright yellow bus paint were plentiful, the young hot rod drivers didn’t want their rides to stand out during moonlighting runs and such. The alternative was the flat black paint. This worked out ok, as it was kinda bad azz, you could hide in the shadows when up to no-good, and best of all, it hid all kinds of sloppy body and paint prep work.
The gist of this story is, unless you want to look like a school bus driver, or someone who does sloppy body work, stay away from the ‘flat black hood look.
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OP it will look like sh**. But if you want to do it, it's your car. Try buying like 3 cans of black plastidip and spray it on there. Make sure you do 50% coverage as you pass, and do one layer at a time. Heat the cans up by putting them in water on the stove. Before the water reaches boiling temp (and bubbles begin to form at the bottom) remove the cans. Don't let the cans get too hot
That way you can see what it will look like, determine if you want to keep it. If not, just peel it off and get your hood repainted like a normal person.
Also, have you tried goof off to remove the wax?
Unless you plan to rattle can the flat black, I suspect it will cost you just as much to paint the hood flat as to have it painted to match the car. Personally, I think the flat black hood will look terrible.
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LMAO wtf.
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OP it will look like sh**. But if you want to do it, it's your car. Try buying like 3 cans of black plastidip and spray it on there. Make sure you do 50% coverage as you pass, and do one layer at a time. Heat the cans up by putting them in water on the stove. Before the water reaches boiling temp (and bubbles begin to form at the bottom) remove the cans. Don't let the cans get too hot
That way you can see what it will look like, determine if you want to keep it. If not, just peel it off and get your hood repainted like a normal person.
Also, have you tried goof off to remove the wax?
Canadians....
OP it will look like sh**. But if you want to do it, it's your car. Try buying like 3 cans of black plastidip and spray it on there. Make sure you do 50% coverage as you pass, and do one layer at a time. Heat the cans up by putting them in water on the stove. Before the water reaches boiling temp (and bubbles begin to form at the bottom) remove the cans. Don't let the cans get too hot
That way you can see what it will look like, determine if you want to keep it. If not, just peel it off and get your hood repainted like a normal person.
Also, have you tried goof off to remove the wax?
Post pics of what your hood looks like today and we can offer some advice on how to fix it
Yes it will look funny, I would rather paint it gloss black otherwise you will just look like you were too cheap to fix the issue
Yes it will look funny, I would rather paint it gloss black otherwise you will just look like you were too cheap to fix the issue
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