[962porsche]

there are many reasons why at my shop we will not soda blast metal bodied cars . the cost of the soda media is about 20 more than other types of blasting media .
if you plastic media blast a metal bodied car it does not warp panels any more than soda blasting will . if you fall asleep holding the blaster in one spot for a long time then yes you can warp some thing .
for the most part soda will not harm things like chrome ,glass and so on . but heres the thing about that . if your stripping a cars down to bare metal don't you want to remove all that crap any way ???? now if you are do you want to spend all the time doing so with the car now sitting in bare metal ? or do you think your going to etch prime it with all the parts still on the car . if you go that rute then you will have to go back and resand and reprime were all the parts were left on the car . and that would be a total waste of time and money .
the thing with soda blasting is it's not going to remove any rust on the steel bodied car . so you will then have to change out the media to another type to remove the rust .
there is a time and place for all types of blasting media . the thing with soda blasting is to many people think thats the best way to go on there metal bodied car . that thinking is totaly wrong ! only if you want to remove the finish from a car is it the media you use . but again you don't know what is under the finish on a metal / steel bodied car 99 times out of a 100 you will find rust areas you did not see because it was covered by the finish on the car .
3 weeks ago a customer had the nose of his car soda blasted because there were 1000's of stone chips . when he told me his friend will blast it for him at a good price . i was like what ever ? have him do it then . when i got the car yep great job all finish is off the car now what would you like me to do with the 1000's of little rust spots that the soda could not remove ?
we then had to do just what i told him needed to be done and thats we will remove the panels and blast them with plastic media . so even with the great deal his friend gave him it was a waste of money .
there is a time and place for all blasting mideas but 99% of the time soda is not the best media for a steel / metal bodied car .
i should also add that if you think there is less clean up from soda blasting think again ! my soda blaster uses water along with the soda media . it will take a years worth of rain storms to wash the soda away .