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That was just to show the technique I used with the spray paint can. Go fast and close and get it wet with overlapping passes. Spray all the way across and don't trigger on or off unless the can is moving. Keep the fuzzy edge small and the rest wet because it won't get any smoother as it dries. The coat I applied in this video was the second, there were three. All the same.
If you know how to do the rest, you're all set now and can stop reading to go fix the car.
I have painted lots of cars professionally and this is the simplest way I know to end unsightly sun damaged clearcoat on black 97-03 GPs. No clearcoat is applied in this repair, only one can of paint is needed. Only the bad area is repainted and you will need to buff this after it dries, for best appearance.
Here is a step by step picture story to help explain how I did this-
This is what I bought for the job. It had a messed up nozzle. I swapped with another similar spray can and it worked fine after that. Did a couple other areas too.
This was my bumper- I had already tried buffing, and on the right half, sanding with 1200 grit also. I got a shine on it but the white marks where the clear is almost gone still stand out. All I wanted was for it to be black and shiny there.
Hopefully yours isn't too far gone, mine was not. Sanding and priming would be needed if the paint layer is broken up badly. I chose to just bury it in black.
This is one "coat", dried. That nozzle messed me up so I quit and came back to it a week later. As you can see, its black but the roughness still shows.
I have cracks at this corner. Those won't hide completely. This is how it looked after a week, with no buffing.
Stay tuned for the exciting conclusion.
