Amount of paint needed

[Nigel2]

Assuming a complete respray, what quantity of paint and primer/filler will roughly be needed to do the complete exterior of a saloon. I don't want to order too much but as the final colour will have to be mixed but I would be mad if I was 1/2 litre short!! Will be dome in 2k. Thanks - (apologies if this has come up before but I cannot find a thread thay gives any indication).

[jonathon]

If you have removed all panels,have every part down to its component form and you are spraying the inside and out of each panel, then I would suggest 2L of etch primer , 4 liters of high build primer and 4-5 liters of top coat.Your paint supplier will sort the relevant amounts of thinners and activator. If you are going for a top quality finish, or just a quick route to achieving your body prep finish, then use Re-face this is a polyester paint, which is designed to fill any air holes in filler or slight imperfections in the panel surface, this we normally dry flat, having applied around 4-5 coats. Use 240 production paper and a guide coat to achieve a true flat surface. After this apply your high build primer normally we apply 4-5 coats, guide coat again then wet flat down with 800 before applying 4-5 coats of top coat. This final paint is flat down wet with 1500 then 2000 and then a final wet D/A with 3000 discs, the whole lot is then machine cut and polished to a flat mirror finish.
If you use the Re-face do not use etch primer underneath.
Hope this helps.

[Nigel2]

Brilliant Jonathon, this gives me all the information I asked for plus 'extras'. Thanks -
Nigel