Thread: What method do you use to strip your car?

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I use aircraft stripper if I want to go down to bare metal. Works great in the heat. Summers in the midwest can get in the high 90s on average and at that point you watch the paint, primer, and any plastic filler bubble up as you brush it on.

you say it`s been painted once before .. how old is the paint ? .. even old paint can still be good paint .. i dint take my stang down to bare metal and have never taken any car iv`e done all the way down cept where damage needed to be fixed ..

8 inch pad on an air sander, that I can run slow. 36 or 40 grit. strip the corners by hand with 40 or 80 grit.

I can strip the car in one day... and it's already sanded for primer. Uses less than a box of sanding discs.

Then I metal prep and bury it in primer.

Great adhesion... low materials cost... minimal hours... no problem with stripper residue affecting the paint... what else do you want? :-)

(Do not use this method on fiberglass. LOL!)