• Hot rod owners love to color-sand their vehicles.Motor - Hot Rod image by Jeffrey Zalesny from Fotolia.com
  
  Painting your vehicle can be both challenging and rewarding. After you have painted and gotten the color and look you want, you will need to color-sand the final clear coat in order to have a beautiful, shiny exterior. Sandpaper and water are the tools needed to color-sand. This is also called wet sanding. Color-sanding is not difficult , but it can be time consuming. Different techniques applied to your vehicle when you are color-sanding are actually different shaped tools, wrapped in sandpaper that will be needed for different parts of your vehicle.
  
  

Sanding Blocks

• Hotrod.com suggest 600-grit sandpaper in the form of a square, wooden block as one of the best ways to begin color-sanding your vehicle. While the 600-grit sandpaper will work for most of the vehicle, it is important to have different grits available for different parts of the vehicle.
  
  

Duro Blocks

• Duro blocks are rounded, cone-shaped rubber pieces that are wrapped in sandpaper and used to color-sand hard-to-reach areas of your vehicle. Duro blocks may be used around your headlights or taillights
  
  

Foam Blocks

• Foam blocks are a good technique to use when color-sanding the large, rounded areas of your vehicle. Over your wheel wells near your bumper is a good location for using a malleable foam sanding block. The foam will bend with the curves of the vehicle.
  
  

PVC Pipe

• PVC pipe can be used to get into some flat areas on your newly painted vehicle. Wrap a half-inch PVC pipe in sandpaper and glue a handle on it for ease of use. This technique would be useful in areas like a hood of a car that may have a lines or grooves that are otherwise hard to reach.