Paging Tonar: Spraying over yellowed clearcoat?

[swarfrat]

Way OT - but since we have paint gurus here, and Leo used automotive paint....

One of our cars is  almost 10 years old,  high mileage car. Deer t-boned us a few months ago, but was kind enough to constrain her damage to the front quarter panel. $75 shipped. I painted it with duplicolor, was looking good... until I got to clear coat. Clear coat is a bit too thick, and yellowed. I was hoping to just knock down the thickness of the clear coat with 600, but I'm giving up on that...

So my question is... can I spray color over clear, then follow up with a lighter clear coat? (Fender has never left garage - still in the painting stage).  Given the age and role in life of this car...

I guess anything is better than crumped steel and rust, and this is better than a wrong color fender from a junk yard. But since the car is white white artic bleached white - (underneath the grime)  - I was trying to make it look as nice as a rattle can job can be.

suggestions?

 

[Nightclub Dwight]

Oh, so we're talking about a Fender here.  Sounds like you need to relic it to appear vintage.

I don't have anything useful to add to the info base, just thought the parallels were funny.

 

[Tonar8352]

I would check with the manufacture of the clear to see if it OK to over spray. I would think if you scuff sand it and you have good adhesion to the color coat it should be fine but I do not know the products.  They should have a phone number on the can for a help desk.