STEP BY STEP: Fix A Large Paint Chip or Scratch In Your Cars Paint
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ก.ย. 2024
- Welcome to our comprehensive guide on repairing large paint chips or scratches in your car's paint finish. Whether it's a minor parking lot mishap or a deeper scrape, we've got you covered with our step-by-step tutorial. Save money on professional repairs and restore your car's appearance with this easy-to-follow DIY process.
How to use a paint pen on a car scratch?
In this video, we'll cover the following key steps:
*Gathering Supplies:* We'll provide you with a list of essential materials and tools you'll need for the repair.
*Preparation:* Understand the importance of proper cleaning and surface preparation to ensure a smooth, long-lasting finish.
*Filling and Sanding:* Watch as we demonstrate how to fill in the chip or scratch and sand it down for a seamless result.
*Painting:* Get tips on choosing the right paint and applying it evenly to match your car's color.
*Clear Coat:* Learn about clear coating and the final steps to make your repair virtually invisible.
With $20 and a little bit of patience, you can restore your car's paint job and maintain its resale value. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with more informative car care tutorials like this one.
If you have any questions or need clarification on any step, please leave a comment, and we'll be happy to assist you. Thanks for watching, and happy DIY car repair!
Tip: Mix the white base with the clearcoat, then apply 2 or 3 final coats on top. It will match. Also, use 1000 grit min. 400/600
is way too harsh and will take out your factory paint in no time.
People don't seem to realize that producing paints with color consistency is nearly impossible. Great video, rust prevention is really important.
DO NOT sand your car with 400 grit people please.... Also, how do you miss the easiest/most useful part of this process? A little bit of compound and polish!!! Doesn't even require power tools, just hand compound, hand polish, and itll look 10x better than what you have now.
Thank you - my dad scratched his car and asked me to fix it (I has no clue but feeling braver now !) 👍
You did a great job explaining this! Now to put it into action on my vehicle!
That will probably hold up, but when things go down to bare metal, you should etch or put some type of direct to metal primer on there.
Great video. Learned a lot. Time to touch up the Caddy now.
Thank you so much for this detailed demonstration. Super helpful!
Never use any thing lower then 1500 on clear coat it will leave deep scratches on white you can get away with using 1000 but any other Color you will see deep scratches an buff the whole panel to blend the repair
Once the surrounding clear gets decontaminated it'll look better. Back of the car is usually covered in dirt and brake dust.
Great job! Looks much better!
Great, Canada always presents the best of informative people eh.❤best regards 🇨🇦
Thanks for the excellent video, truly helps.
Thabk you from Australia. Very helpful
Quick tip for gm cars…. Inside the glove box there’s a “ service parts identification “ sticker and at the bottom left corner there will be
“ BC/CC U 726S “ that was an example of a Silverado I just did yesterday. But if not all then most Gm cars will have it there.
@JayOnOneWheel Quick tip for *modern GM cars*.... Where he showed the QR Code is the exact location for this information, on the B-pillar. All aforementioned codes are embedded in the QR code and beneath the QR code (where the paint code is also embedded) on his 2017 year Chevy Bolt it states 8624 which is the paint code for Summit White for this vehicle. Your information would have had someone going on a wild goose chase - where he found the paint code is where it is located and the car only came in one option for white that year. The days of the RPO code sticker being in the glovebox is most often a thing of the past and is typically (if found there) is typically a carry-over from legacy models and not something expected to continue (see aforementioned information on option QR code which is standard on GM vehicles 2018+).
Don't put it in your glove box, the heat that builds up in your car during the summer will ruin it
Thank you so much for this video متشکرم از شما آقای محترم
Very good instruction video, I think if you had finished off machine polishing the area , it would have been even better!
I completely agree. I could have done a much better job. The goal is to clean it up, before it rusts. As long as you can walk past it and not notice the repair, its a win.
I'd put another sticker back in it's place
I did consider getting a new sticker, but it is important to clean up the paint before the sticker goes on. The goal is to clean it up, before it rusts. As long as you can walk past it and not notice the repair, its a win.
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Great vid, very helpful. What do you do if your paint came out patchy after sanding? Also, I've seen people use polish after sanding? Will that help? Thanks from Japan
Did you wet sand or dry sand?
Amazon is your friend for 1000+ grit paper and you can use a pink eraser to wrap your sandpaper over to make a sanding block.
Auto parts stores in town sell every kind of sand paper needed for this.
wouldn't it be better to have used filler primer on that before you did the paint to build that up better.
You lost the world at using a razor blade instead of a rubber wheel and 100 grit. If you're watching, just don't do any of this. Find another video, please.
I know some police officers used to cover scratches on their radio car with whiteout.
Ha ha the reflection shows a guy walking across the street distracted me.
How long did you wait to first sand after doing the last coat of paint ?
Your paint code is under the QR code on the manufactur sticker, yours is 8624 - Olympic White
Summit White is the *actual* color. 2017 Chevrolet Bolt only came in one white and it was Summit White. This same number is also embedded in the QR code.
How about primer? Is that essential for rust prevention?
If it’s a deep scratch then yeah put primer on first
Thanks! I could do that!
Go for it!
It looks easier than you think
@@Chosen1510 It's not rocket surgery when done on a white vehicle. :)
What happened to the final polish by hand?
Thank you.
It's very easy within your reach to have continue to have sanded the clear coat flush, then polish with a cloth and some compound by hand.
Can one use spray paint instead of a pen?
Shouldn't you use primer on bare metal and then use paint?
Never take anything to the dealership(stealership).
Never sand with metal sand paper without using water during sanding. Pass several incresing sand paper grit that is 800, then 1500, 2000 and even 5000 if you want. Finally polish with any polishing liquid or crean. These steps will make de difference.
This is poor advice as the purpose of wetting the surface when sanding is purely to prevent the paper from clogging and on such a small area, dry sanding the metal to clean any rust off and to texture the surface for paint adhesion is fine. 5000 is superfluous for such a repair and also poor advisement.
What about a plastic bumper chip
I am working on a similar sized repair on the hood of a customer's car. I'm a detailer not a body repair guy. Color is white like in your video and the paint touch up I got from the dealer is not a good match. My repair is level with the surrounding paint, I used clear after dry, but the clear did not level well at all. This made me decide to wet sand the clear, but even after a full 24 hours to cure, the clear flakes off as I try to sand. Have tried twice. Any advice? The paint alone does not have enough shine especially right on the front of the hood, it really stands out.
try to mix some paint with clear cote 1:1 and do 2 to 3 layers, sand it out with 1000 grit. Buff it with cutting compound by hand or with polishing mashine.
I wouldnt use anything lower than 1500 grit paper on car paint. Id use 400 on wood but not on paint, unless you are trying to go back to bare metal for.a respray. Also polish as the final step
Wait… a RAZOR BLADE?? No. No no no no no. $5 will get you a ton of *plastic* edged scrapers designed just for this.
That surface that youre scuffing, i could swear is the E coat... but im here because i dont know that much
How much does it cost buy those paint pen from dealership?
Usually $20-$30 depending on dealer, they can also be found online.
Those dealer touchups never match . those aren’t very good repairs. They’re just good to cover up the dark spots.
Agreed - The goal is to clean it up, before it rusts. As long as you can walk past it and not notice the repair, its a win.
Okay nooooooo :( first sand it down with a 1000-1500 grit than wipe it down with alcohol then PRIMER then a few coats of paint then wet sand with 2000 grit then 2500 grit lastly 2-3 layers of clear coat wet sand with 2500 -3000 grit between each coat.
It's not a block Inside of paint. It's a marble or a bb
Great job but at the end it's still unfortunately a Chevy.....
What a completely non-constructive comment. Epitomizing what it means to be a waste of bandwidth. Trolls and fanboys are so cliche, it's 2024.
Fact is You stuffed up😂
Razor blade on paint 🤔
It was better before, before clear coat
Why didn't you take a buffer to it afterwards? That looks horrible actually. With a buffer you'll buff out the obvious looking patch job you did. The difference in the shade of white paint isn't the issue.
White paint from Chevy is known to be complete ass! 💀
ummmmm NEVER use a razor on paint. EVER. This is why.
Step 1. NEVER remove a sticker with a razor blade. NEVER!
Why would I take advice from a guy that took a razor blade to a cars paint job?
Paint does NOT match mate
...which I mentioned :) The goal is to clean it up, before it rusts. As long as you can walk past it and not notice the repair, its a win.
Fix looks pretty good to me
Touch up paint will NEVER match. Closest you’ll get is maybe 95%.
The code is in the glove box
While it makes for a good video because it's the least possible reflective color and also in the shade (thus preventing any reflections... it's better to not cut an inch of your paint away to bare metal with a razor blade. It hides the damage unless you're looking for it but any sort of a darker color and this large gash would be more noticeable than it already is.
Instead of wood you can use a dry sponge
Wrong. The paint code is in the glove box on a sticker.
hey there, can you tell me where i can find the materials that you have used to repair the paints? i am from Canada. So the direct link of Amazon or any reference would be appreciated
That paper was far too harsh....Should've started at 600 and finished on 2000....Final step should 've then been a polish with a medium compound for a showroom.finish...No way would you have seen any difference against the original paint work then....It looks ok tho.