Collisional relaxation and fine-structure mixing rate constants have been measured for the metastable
D doublet
(3D3/2, 3D5/2) of
Ca+ ions in the presence of different neutral gases completing a previous work. Experimental results are given for He, Ne, Ar,
H2, N2, and
CH4. These data have been obtained with a cloud of approximately
105 Ca+ ions stored in a Paul trap at kinetic energies of around 1 eV. The investigated levels were populated by direct excitation of the corresponding $4S\ensuremath{-}3D$ transitions. The involved time constants were determined from the temporal evolution of the fluorescence of one of the resonance transitions, following the optical pumping of the
P level from the
D component. Comparison of our data with other similar experimental and theoretical work is finally presented.