I am planning on painting the hood of my car. I was told by someone that I needed to wet sand my hood before I paint it. Would something like this work?

http://www.autobodytoolmart.com/p-12829-15974.aspx

 

800 grit paper. Don't bring it down to the metal. Prime it, wet sand, paint it and wet sand it. Don't use any wax or compounds for about two weeks to allow the paint to cure.

 

what the hell is 800 grit gonna do as far as prep.. your being way to gentle, and there is no reason for primer if theres no body work that needs done to the hood unless he's got some kinda drastic color change goin on and wants to conserve paint!

for the OP if you really don't know what your doing, take it to a body shop. If you wanna learn, go research from some reputable source rather than listen to people that don't know what they are talking about.

There would be way more details needed from you for anyone to give you proper instruction on here anyways.

 

You don't need to strip or sand the paint off, just make it a little pourus to allow the paint/primer to stick and cure. 800, or even 600 will do it.

OP, are you using a spray can, or a paint gun to do this?

x2 on the body shop if you've never really painted before. A "top notch" state of the art shop is going to charge you a couple hundred bucks, but a local mom and pop's type shop will do it for about $100 and it can/will look good.