Hi all, i am getting to the point where i have my engine bay dry fitted and i am wanting to start paint striping the car to see what's underneath...

Has anyone use paint striper and what have you found works well?

Any will do. Just put it on thick, and don't let it dry out. I've heard of people wrapping the panel with cling film so all the nastiness in the stripper can do its job. Getting a good scraper also makes the job easy.

i bought paint stripper from supacheap worked fine.

POR 15 very very very good stuff !!!

I always rough out the paint surface first with gritty sand paper so the stripper has somthing to grip to and it work fairly well. I think i used K and H pink tin or maybe it was brown?

yep, strippers like it rough. It helps with intercoat penetration and speeds things up.

I used some industrial stuff from my local paint shot that supplies all of the local panel beaters, awesome stuff and from memory it was around the 25 dollars fro 4 litre mark.

thanks for all the info so far...

how much paint striper would i need for the whole ute?? any idea?

This is just my 2c, but I've had trouble over the years with paint stripper never totally getting removed, and paint eventually peeling, or bubbling here and there.

It's not cheap, but I honestly reckon sandblasting (or blasting with some sort of abrasive media) is a far better bet. The paint seems to go on better and last longer.

I don't have any 20 year old paint jobs to compare it to, but I am talking about 5-10 years sort of thing.

i always though that sand or soda blasting was the way to go also.
but i have been talking to a few panel beaters, quite good ones i might add, and they have all said that paint stripping, although more mucking around and annoying, is probably the better way to go.

They also added that if the person doing the blasting is not very good he can do more damage than good...