M5 Tilt nose update #8 more color 

The nose of an M5 has a seemingly endless amount of small sections. Body and paint on all these sections continues but is tedious and slow. The insides of the doors are now blue, and some nose sections are now blue.

We are using a single stage urethane, followed by PPG 2021 clear. We could buff out the single stage, but we like the sharp shine of the clear, and it protects better.

We have used other brands of clear when a customer requested it, but had to give that up. The cheaper brands do not lay down nicely, do not have very much solids, tend to  be watery, don't cover as well, and have a yellow tinge to them. You will use more of a watery paint than a high solids paint, so there is a false economy going on there. 

For your clear, or plain single stage if that is what you select, lay down 3 coats. Each coat is about 1 mil, and you will sand off 1 mil in the buffing process. If for some reason you have to go back to re-clear something, you can either use scotch brite pads to scuff the hardened paint, or if you have maddening nooks and crannies, scuffing will make you crazy. In that case we use PPG Blend-Ease in the mix, it is a special solvent and will bite into the paint beneath without scuffing. All the major paint makers have some type of blending agent. It doesn't take much Blend Ease at all, and it will make your paint thinner, so be careful for runs.