How to Paint your car with U-Pol Raptor

My Disco 1 paint was burnt from the sun, it looked bad and I didn’t like it that way.

Since the day I bought it I planned to paint it, first, I thought about regular car paint, when I went to the store to buy it I suddenly saw the Raptor and asked about it. Making a long story short, I ended up with 4 bottles of U-Pol Raptor…

That is how my 1998 tdi300 Discovery looked like before the paint job:

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Using Raptor is easy, you have to sand the car till the varnish is off, no need to get to the metal, clean it well, protect the windows/wheels/ any other part that you don’t want to be painted and spray…

I used #120 – #240 sanding paper and then #360, if you are going to paint with regular car paint, you will need to go as high as #800 and maybe more, U-Pol Raptor allows you to work on surfaces which were not smoothed by #800 sanding paper, 240-360 will do the work as well.

Here is my Discovery during the sand job and right before the painting:

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When you finish the sanding job, clean the surfaces with a #21 thinner and a rug that won’t leave fibers.

Here is the Disco during the paint job:

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The texture of the Raptor is being set by the spray gun and the air pressure that you use. In order to achieve a light grainy texture, I used a 1.7mm spray gun and 28PSI. I painted with 2 fast layers.

Here is the result:

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Today, it is more than year and a half since the painted was done, I’m very happy with the results. The paint still looks good, hardly scratched.

Only Downside is that the mud sticks much better to the car now 🙂