Painted bumper, rough surface

I took the front bumper off my DD and fixed a few scratches, cracks and painted it. Yesterday I learned that 92F is too hot to paint outside in the afternoon sun

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It's going to take 800 grit to get the surface smooth, obviously the clearcoat cured too fast due to the high temperature and didn't 'flow' .... I added slow reducer to the clear to slow it down but it didn't help much.

When I saw that it's not very smooth I added another coat so that there enough clear to wetsand with 800grit, then up to 2000...

It does look better than what I started with on Saturday:


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You just had to take it apart didn't you?

I removed the bumper Saturday and had it back on the car Sunday night. Was actually a lot less work than masking the whole car.
I wetsanded Monday, it looks ok now.... good enough to sell the car :wink: