I Completely Ruined THIS Paint Job

The honesty is what gets me. Even the best painter has issues. Keep being real

Honestly.. This is the stuff i like to see..... Proves That even the professionals have issues too... 99% of youtube is just videos of everyone's best work.. Not many people show the other side of it... The issues that they face etc....

I am the drunkest I’ve ever been off Jack Daniel’s and your video is helping me stay awake to sober up before I sleep so I don’t throw up, thank you

this makes me feel better knowing even a master can have a bad paint day. thanks for posting

I’ve had this happen when I had too much air being pulled from the booth that I built in my garage. It kept happening no matter what I did until I changed up my fan setup to be positive air pressure inside the booth. Turns out I was pulling in dust through and over the panels/car to my extractor setup. Once I installed a a high static pressure fan and filter to keep positive pressure, that went away. I didn’t think that there was that much dust in my garage, let alone able to get in through the zippers and seals around the filters.

I worked at a limousine factory years back, and some dude at the other end of the shop which was almost 200 yards away was using some silicone caulking, and the paint shop guys came screaming down to the other end of the shop asking who the F*** was using silicone!?!? That far away, and still got tons of fish eyes in the paint even though it was in a paint booth.

Brian, I recently painted an 03 Accord and sealer, base both looked phenomenal. Then, when I laid down clear I had hundreds of fisheyes. Turns out it was my air compressor. Even though I had a wall mounted oil/water separation system there was oil or something getting in my lines. I boiled it down to being an oil driven compressor. Once I switched and got an oil-less compressor, the redo looks great. Thanks for all you do, your inspiration and the reminders that we will all have issues when painting cars.

For us starting out, its good to see a do-over scenario because for most of us its a certainty.

Those fish eyes look like moisture. I use the 3M full face mask when clearing and I've had condensation drip from the face nose area before from breath. I also use a dedicated hose for painting that I never connect to a non filtered non dried air source. I also started using an in-line air filter on the hose at the gun, just to be sure there's no dirt or moisture coming out of the dessicant filter on the wall. I'd also spray down that floor with water using a garden chemical sprayer...

I installed one of those Eastwood filtration setups and had the same problem. Disconnected it and used a different filtering setup that was more janky but the problem went away. I’m planning on disassembling the Eastwood filter to see if I can see what’s wrong. I love their paint products, though.

Thanks Brian. Showing the problems and working through them is the best part of the channel and keeps me coming back to learn.

I really like the setup but that blower near the floor will circulate dust particles

Man, I've watched a ton of your videos... but this one, with a very relatable problem, an investigation into what did it coming soon, THAT'S what got me to subscribe. Thanks for what you do, brother!

You gotta be kidding me! I sprayed my car with single stage today and had similar disaster. Fisheyes all over the place. But, I have plenty of paint still, so I'll try again. Thank you for honesty, seing those perfect results all the time makes me lose hope that I can do it. Your videos, just motivate me to try again and get better.

I was working at a high end custom paint shop a few years ago and the painter had to get up at like 3am to paint because it was so hot in the summer that he kept getting solvent pop on expensive builds and had to go back and redo it. These are the things that can happen and it sucks but it's a lesson in life. Always glad to see you show the reality of things.

Best paint video I've seen in years! Thank you for sharing, it's always a huge heartbreak when it happens to us.

So glad you posted this. I've been painting for 25 years, and I STILL have problems every now and then with contamination and fisheyes. One thing you mentioned that helps is allowing the first layer to kick before spraying on a heavier 2nd and 3rd layer. Sometimes I will shoot and have a PERFECT finish, and my confidence soars. Then I'll turn right around and get fisheyed all to hell. It is frustrating! I take notes on every shoot, when things go wrong and also when they go good. It helps. But I've come to learn that there's always the possibility that you get contamination from somewhere unexpected, and you just have to bite the bullet, sand it, and reshoot!

I think if you're used to a finely tuned professional setup - a perfected system of doing it - you forget the system is avoiding certain problems. When you go DIY at home you realize the struggle for good results is real.

When you added the 2nd blower right before you cleared. Is it possible it added contaminants into the booth, from whatever is sitting in that cabinet next to the blower?

Might try a little fisheye eliminator in you clear. I've use it before even just on the second coat and it allowed the clear to fill the fisheyes enough to save the job. Some of those were pretty deep. I'm sure you probably don't use anything with silicone in that garage but that would do it.