Wow finally someone that goes step by step and shows everything with detailed instructions about time to dry and what to do when little scuffs show. Very informative thank you.
Some things I like to do when it comes to rattle cans and you are spraying outside (THIS IS MY OPINION AND WHAT I DO ON MY OWN CARS): 1.) Cover more than your paint repair area. You can get drop cloths or even drop plastics from Lowe's, Home Depot, Walmart, China Freight for nothing. 2.) Keep the area clean as much as you can, before and after sanding. Really important. If you're working outside, before you lay the primer down, go over everything with a tack cloth or blue shop towel again. 3.) Do LIGHT COATS!!!! Even with primer. DO NOT try and cover everything with one pass/coat. Less is more. Stay consistent with the distance you spray from, motion (left to right), and nozzle work. 4.) Use 600 - 800 grit when smoothing the edges of primer. Don't press hard, even if you have a soft sanding block. Light pressure to medium pressure at best. Slow and steady is key. Clean the area often, usually between sanding. 5.) Once the primer feels smooth to the back of your hand, depending on how many callouses you have, wipe nice and clean with a tack cloth. 6.) Base coat painting, one major thing I disagree with in the video (I did dislike it), is keep your motion from left/right or up/down consistent with nozzle spray. In other words, if I write the spray sound do not do this: Pfffft, Pfft, pffffffffffffffffffffffffffft, pffft, pfft, pfft, pfft, Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft. You want to do this: pfffffffffft, pffffffffft, pffffffffft, pffffffffft, pfffffffft, pfffffffft. Consistency is key, and try to overlap the fan of the spray with the base coat as much as you can. DO NOT try and cover the primer in the first pass, or any other blemishes. Slow and steady. Add more coats. Consistency and patience also helps conserve paint as well. CLEAN the nozzle between paint coats, paint away from the panel (start on paper) then work towards the panel area, then paint away from the panel area onto the paper again. Shake can between coats as well. Important. 7.) When using clear coat, especially 2K, wear a mask, something that blocks out chemicals, not just COVID. The first two coats, keep it light, the dry coat. The following coats, or the wet coat, you can add two or three more coats on top, but be consistent! Follow number 6. Let 15 - 20 minutes between coats. Heat is great, no matter the temperature outside. Keep the heat gun about 10 - 12 inches away, move the heat gun around, do not stay in one spot. 8.) Let dry overnight. If you want to get rid of the orange peel, or God forbid, fisheyes/runs, use 1500 - 200 grit WET sand paper, and LIGHTLY sand the runs, or the orange peel. Barely any pressure needed. Keep the sanding on the affected area only. 9.) Once the wet sanding is done, get a very light cut compound, IE Meguiar's Ultimate Compound works GREAT, and grab an orbital buffer, set to 3,000 RPMs, light pressure, go over the entire you just painted the day prior. Apply a polish/glaze on top, slow speeds, large movement, then wax. Again, this is just what I do on my own cars. Just figured I share what I do. The main thing I disliked about the video was the painting technique. Everything else, not bad at all. But painting technique is VERY important.
This is how I learned to paint exactly, I will say how he is doing it is good enough for most, but not stressing about wearing a mask is a huge thumbs down. 2k for sure, but anytime I spray anything I wear a mask. You can get a decent one on amazon or harbor freight for $30.
Well said. I was cringing when I was watching the inconsistency. Up down left right. I'm new to spraying and god damn...😬 I've learnt a lot from Paint society.... he breaks it down properly and professionally
@@dynajay4106 Have you ever painted a car before? And not spray painted, actual paint gun. If you think that's easy you're welcome to try yourself, but its mainly easy to figure out why labor costs so much for professional painting.
Just did my front bumper on my mustang today. As all car lovers know, a scratch can make you sooo sad. Had a big gouge and other deep scratchs and I hated driving my car, as it a was meant except for those front end scratchs. Got the kit in January, it just got warm enough to do. Followed the video instructions and it came out great!! The clear coat is shiny, and after 24hrs ill apply a coat of wax. Thanks so much for a great product and great how to video!!👍👍👍👍👍
+Roman Max yes it does, just clean all the surface and spray about a ten inch radius from where you touched it up, then polish about a 20 inch radius with some meguiars or mothers wax polish, and you can just use a soft cloth to do that and it should look like new
Idk about this scratch wizard kit, I am amazed the watch how people perform the same results in a multitude of different methods. Really neat to see you genuinely blend the paint and also watching you clear as a final result to match the other end of the bumber is amazing because you have to know your cars paint in order to get that result. I am currently doing some autobody work myself and it is pain staking to get results when you won't settle! Awesome work!
Thank you very much for this, an idiots guide to paint repairs!!!Just followed it exactly having watched it 11 times and taken step by step notes to follow and I can say as a complete novice that this works BRILLIANTLY! I've just managed to get a professional finish on my Subaru. Thank you again!!
Leave the clear coat to dry for a few days then use some car body polish and a micro fiber cloth to bring a little shine to blend the new clear coat into the old
hey ,if anyone else is searching for how to spray paint a car at home try Corbandy Car Sprayer Crusher (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my co-worker got cool success with it.
I have spent months researching into painting with a spray gun and discovered a fantastic website at Magic Painter Method (google it if you are interested)
Absolutely superb presentation. I had been trying to fix a small area on my number for weeks and everytime I would take off the tape I would see the tapeline and then I would try to resolve that----with the original area needing to be fixed getting bigger and bigger. Finally someone stepped in and explained how to avoid the picture frame effect and how to blend or feather the new paint and clear into the old. Great info and I finally learned something
Also masking up a square shape then priming over it so it creates a hard edge is absolutely pointless and creating more work for yourself, just spray the primer over the general area without any tape then wet sand it smooth
I believed he used the tape to prevent the primer (which is a different color from the base coat) to lay around since he doesn't do the whole bumper. I would have used some soft edge techniques by folding the tape so the hard edges are not showing up that much tho.
I believed he used the tape to prevent the primer (which is a different color from the base coat) to lay around since he doesn't do the whole bumper. I would have used some soft edge techniques by folding the tape so the hard edges are not showing up that much tho.
Ive watched at least ten or twelve videos on paint scratch repair your. video y far is the 100% best! Clear angles and instructions, dude thank you so much! 👍🏻
This is a good instructional video for repairing paint scratches on the car bumper. The process of doing repair is correct for the most part but he skipped some steps that could have make it much better. Second, if he did not wear any respirator/nose mask or protective clothing, that is dangerous for his lung. There are a few of mistakes he made that you should avoid if you are going to do it yourselves. One is he sanded too much of the primer exposing the bondo filler, he should redo the primer coat to cover the bondo before painting the base coat. Second, he should sand the primer so that it does not feather like it did when he painted the base coat. Third, he should mask the rest of the bumper where he did not scrub and the entire hood at east 2 feet from the paint area so that the paint overspray will not land on these areas. Last but not least, the painting should be done in a low dust area, preferring inside the garage with plastic liner to prevent dust from settling on the wet paint, ruining the finish.
Great video...for those people wondering why their clear coat is not smooth, just gently heat the area with a heat gun before applying the clear coat...also helps with the colour coat.
Great results using the kit I ordered. Color match was spot on. But after a year since application, the clear coat has already broken down from UV damage. I’d still recommend the base color but I’d probably use a 2K clear coat instead
This was SO HELPFUL. I just repaired a scratch on my camry 2015 and the video I watched did NOT tell me about the picture frame effect. I have a hilarious looking area now after three days of careful work. Thank you for this video! I will be redoing it again to avoid the very bad picture frame effect.
Great video. I just learned a trick to prevent the hard edge from the tape. Just roll the edge of tape up and helps prevent having to sand the hard edge out
I purchased this "kit" from them and followed the instructions. It looked good for about a month or two. As time went on the clear coat started to fade. Now, a year or so later, it looks worse than it did when I started. I finally took it to a professional paint shop. As they say, "Your results may vary".
Gonzalo Alvarez Jr There’s a reason. This kit supplies a 1K clear coat, not the two part 2k automotive grade clear. Next time you would just need to buy the 2k on amazon and as long as your prep work is good, should last a LOOOOONG time.
Color matches like perfectly! This stuff is great if you follow everything perfectly. I am a noob at this and applied some bondo/filler on the primer and it ate at the primer and ruined my sanding so I will have to redo it again. Lesson learned and for those out there so they wont make the same mistake as me. Stuff works like a charm though. Sanding the primer is the most important process to me so take your time on that and make sure it is smooth cause even the smallest lines will show :O
what a great video, I recently bout a car with a small scuff patch and the quote was expensive watched this video and had a go myself and the result was impressive quite happy with myself :)
I would never use anything but catalyzed two part clear coat on a clear finish. As pointed out below this job isn't finished. Wet sanding and buffing is a must on clear coat.
Thanks for clearly explaining/ demonstrating the steps - I can see what I did wrong now. I didn;t sand out 24", I left the taped area on when I sprayed the base coat and more...
ignore all the experts, good job mate thankyou for the heads up...and if your scratch is bigger , by all means do the whole panel.....quicker and less of a hassle
have a small quarter size dent and scrap in my 2014 300c JVL rear bumper . went to body shop just to see the cost . $800 ! i laughed and left him standing there . thx for all the great vids .
Spray paint goes literally everywhere you need to mask way more of the car then shown in this video. Also no need to mask such a small area with a hard edge when priming you are creating more work then necessary.
Thanks for the video gives me confidence in my DIY. I’ve got a driver side door that I need to spray and the local body shops say they have to do the whole side of the car which is just a money grabber because I just want the door done so I want to do it myself
Good work mate. But with the masking tape when U taped around the repair before U applied primer you can save a lot of sanding by only sticking the tape down hard on the outside edge furthermost away from the repair. You don't stick the edge of the tape down next to the repair so that this edge of the tape is lifted & curled up a little and it does not leave a defined sharp edge on the primer. You can do it with paint and clear as well and the paint or clear automatically feathers itself out and blends in without a defined sharp edge.
Incredible result, didn’t even use compound or polish! Real pro job. Amateurs out there, make sure you getting scrubbing compound too, and a final polish
I read everywhere that you have to clear coat the entire panel. But I see dozens of videos like this where that is not being done. Will this show an edge? Or look bad over time? If there is an edge in the clear coat, can it be buffed out?
Just out of curiosity... What happens when skipping primer on a case like this? I have an area 1/2" wide, 2" long, to do. It's black plastic underneath (not metal).
Probably will peal off over time, something that was not mentioned in the vid is that when you paint bare plastic you will need to apply a coat of adhesion promoter then the rest of the steps
Pretty good, would have used adhesion promoter but nice and clear and easy to follow. I'm not trying to be a smart ass expert either, I'm trying to learn, and I learned about adhesion promoter watching another video, just mentioning to help someone else who might read this.
Awsome job, if i'm not mistaken it's the first time you are scuffing as a first step. 3 qustions if i may: 1.Why do you apply 4 coats? earlier you have said that 3 coats are enough for metalic paint 2.Does blending mean scuffing before buffing out and then applying clear coat over the scuffed area ? 3.What kind of putty do you use, does if contain hardener ?
1. 4 coats were necessary to cover the primer 2. Blending means applying paint so it appears to transition smoothly from old paint to new paint. 3. The putty uses no hardener.
A PROFESSIONAL body shop told me they couldn't do a small area of the bumper , that they would have to paint the whole bumper and they call themselves professionals. I laughed in they face.
Nice tutorial especially not masking tip which I speak from experience went a bit arty my self clear on my spoiler good masking edges. Look fwd to this on my small clear coat errors on my car. Only thing I would say I think you should be wearing a mask and gloves/goggles. Oh and possibly I will wet sand clear coat to merge too.
I do find it interesting when you read this section and you see it full of comments from people instructing on how to ‘really’ do it or how to do it better. My thoughts are, if you already know how to do it better why are you watching an instruction video
I bought a used car and it runs well.i took it recently though the car wash and it looks like the previous paint job just came off . I have three paint free spots .i can clearly see the metal, what step should I begin ? And thank you for this video,
thank you thank you for that! 1st I watched your vid on fixing a panel with aerosol products, then the blending one. I've got a diy job going in my carport and with help like you provide I feel it's going to be as good as it can be without going to a professional. Very clear and informative, keep up the good work. Reply ·
Thank you very much for this video. I would not do this repair myself - but I always wondered how to use those spray cans I saw in Canadian Tire stores (in Canada). This is the first video I found which shows how to clearly!
reading the comments here is quite disheartening. I plan on doing this (almost no experience with paint, limited automotive experience) on a 14-year-old car that has been dinged, scuffed and scratched pretty much everywhere in small patches. The quote I got from an indy was between $800 to $1000 and the car itself is worth maybe 5k all together. So for all the experts here that found the numerous faults, how would you do this differently, because It makes no sense to me to pay 20% of the car's cost to repair the paint.
Do not listen to everybody. You know it, if you take your care to professionals they will do the same but ask you to give them your house. It is an excellent help and satisfactory if you have a car worth less than $8-10000. They think that the richest people in the world are watching youtube to repair their cars? Damn idiots. Here are people who do not have money to spread all over the place. Just follow step by step how this video shows it.
@@1semiauto by not framing it out with tape you just control the spray to focus on the main area and feather the spray outward around the "edges" of the repair area, then wet sand and clear
I've followed all of these instructions to repair some bad scratches on my Clio, looks great although I'm at the point where I have completed the clear coat but the finish isn't looking as glossy as the rest of the car. Will polishing it bring it out more or do I need a glossier type of clear coat? Thanks
+James Smith well to make it glossy again make sure to apply two layer of clear coat and wait for 30mins or so then spray warm piss on that area to make it same as other paint
+James Smith If you have "fuzzy spots" that means some of the paint went on wet and some went on "dry". Lightly wet sand with 1500, dry thoroughly, and spray clear again. If your clear goes on "wet", it may dry a bit dull depending on the quality and drying environment of the clear. Wet sand with 2000, then 3000, then compound or polish. You can do all those by hand. Practice on a test panel or cardboard to find how close and how fast you need to move the gun/can to get "wet" finish without getting runs or sags. Stay gold
good job . Only problem You didn't use clear blend or fade out . Where you didn't spray the clear coat on the back of bumper the clear coat you sprayed will leave a haze from the over spray where it meets the original clear coat . you would have to clear the whole bumper or use a clear blend. Not trying to critisize but if people attempt this they should be aware of over spray hazing original clear.
Most of the DIY scratch repairs suggest Wet Sanding soon after cleaning. Why does your method not wet sand before applying putty? When is it best to wet sand versus not wetland?
Great video but if you're doing 2k clear coat which is the best kind to get for autos, you'll need a mask. Generally I wear a mask whenever I spray paint no matter what the situation.
What about where the new clearcoat meets and goes over the shiny Unscuffed old clearcoat toward the front of the bumper? what’s to stop the new clearcoat starting to peel where it overlaps the shiny old clearcoat ?
This is the very exact video im looking for. Can I ask how long is the drying time and also temps? I don't have an enclosed garage to do this and needing to fix a rust spot
Can I wet sand a scratch then spray the touch up paint over scratch? In other words is it ok if the outside areas of touch up spray cover some of the clear coat already on the vehicle..then spray clear over all of it? Probably confusing
How did you avoid clear coat overspray on the unscuffed area to the left of the 24 inches from the paint area. When spraying the clear coat, once you get to the border of the scuffed and unscuffed area, some of it is bound to land on the unscuffed area and create a haze so how did you go around that?
The only other advice I'd throw in is always use two part automotive clear coat. It's way harder and doesn't get foggy from sun light. Little more expensive but definitely worth it.
I had sand a small inch of paint off my passenger door and left a white patch. Can I use the same method in this video for that small white patch? But without the puddy of course because it’s not a hole or anything but just paint came off. So I apply the color matching my car and then apply clear coat on it? And what do I need to do to make sure I blend it in with the rest of my door? Apply polish?
I tried this, in less than a year the paint and clear coat Cracked and split away...and yes I did the prep work. I ended up sanding and buffing it all off.
Wow finally someone that goes step by step and shows everything with detailed instructions about time to dry and what to do when little scuffs show. Very informative thank you.
Some things I like to do when it comes to rattle cans and you are spraying outside (THIS IS MY OPINION AND WHAT I DO ON MY OWN CARS):
1.) Cover more than your paint repair area. You can get drop cloths or even drop plastics from Lowe's, Home Depot, Walmart, China Freight for nothing.
2.) Keep the area clean as much as you can, before and after sanding. Really important. If you're working outside, before you lay the primer down, go over everything with a tack cloth or blue shop towel again.
3.) Do LIGHT COATS!!!! Even with primer. DO NOT try and cover everything with one pass/coat. Less is more. Stay consistent with the distance you spray from, motion (left to right), and nozzle work.
4.) Use 600 - 800 grit when smoothing the edges of primer. Don't press hard, even if you have a soft sanding block. Light pressure to medium pressure at best. Slow and steady is key. Clean the area often, usually between sanding.
5.) Once the primer feels smooth to the back of your hand, depending on how many callouses you have, wipe nice and clean with a tack cloth.
6.) Base coat painting, one major thing I disagree with in the video (I did dislike it), is keep your motion from left/right or up/down consistent with nozzle spray. In other words, if I write the spray sound do not do this: Pfffft, Pfft, pffffffffffffffffffffffffffft, pffft, pfft, pfft, pfft, Pffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffft. You want to do this: pfffffffffft, pffffffffft, pffffffffft, pffffffffft, pfffffffft, pfffffffft. Consistency is key, and try to overlap the fan of the spray with the base coat as much as you can. DO NOT try and cover the primer in the first pass, or any other blemishes. Slow and steady. Add more coats. Consistency and patience also helps conserve paint as well. CLEAN the nozzle between paint coats, paint away from the panel (start on paper) then work towards the panel area, then paint away from the panel area onto the paper again. Shake can between coats as well. Important.
7.) When using clear coat, especially 2K, wear a mask, something that blocks out chemicals, not just COVID. The first two coats, keep it light, the dry coat. The following coats, or the wet coat, you can add two or three more coats on top, but be consistent! Follow number 6. Let 15 - 20 minutes between coats. Heat is great, no matter the temperature outside. Keep the heat gun about 10 - 12 inches away, move the heat gun around, do not stay in one spot.
8.) Let dry overnight. If you want to get rid of the orange peel, or God forbid, fisheyes/runs, use 1500 - 200 grit WET sand paper, and LIGHTLY sand the runs, or the orange peel. Barely any pressure needed. Keep the sanding on the affected area only.
9.) Once the wet sanding is done, get a very light cut compound, IE Meguiar's Ultimate Compound works GREAT, and grab an orbital buffer, set to 3,000 RPMs, light pressure, go over the entire you just painted the day prior. Apply a polish/glaze on top, slow speeds, large movement, then wax.
Again, this is just what I do on my own cars. Just figured I share what I do. The main thing I disliked about the video was the painting technique. Everything else, not bad at all. But painting technique is VERY important.
agree with everything here
This is how I learned to paint exactly, I will say how he is doing it is good enough for most, but not stressing about wearing a mask is a huge thumbs down. 2k for sure, but anytime I spray anything I wear a mask. You can get a decent one on amazon or harbor freight for $30.
Well said. I was cringing when I was watching the inconsistency. Up down left right.
I'm new to spraying and god damn...😬
I've learnt a lot from Paint society.... he breaks it down properly and professionally
@@daleclarke9505 Oh hell yeah, big props to Paint Society.
wish you wouldve got here sooner, I messed up on the correctness
Despite what the many "experts" here have written I found this video to be easy to follow and informative...thanks.
Uy
Me too
Barely noticeable uneven coat for hundreds of dollars less OR leave it in someone else's hands for a fortune.
Looks good to me.In fact I followed this advice and got a great result, without paintshop prices.👍
@@dynajay4106 Have you ever painted a car before? And not spray painted, actual paint gun. If you think that's easy you're welcome to try yourself, but its mainly easy to figure out why labor costs so much for professional painting.
Just did my front bumper on my mustang today. As all car lovers know, a scratch can make you sooo sad. Had a big gouge and other deep scratchs and I hated driving my car, as it a
was meant except for those front end scratchs. Got the kit in January, it just got warm enough to do. Followed the video instructions and it came out great!! The clear coat is shiny, and after 24hrs ill apply a coat of wax. Thanks so much for a great product and great how to video!!👍👍👍👍👍
I have used just auto paint to touch up scratches but the Finnish look not as Shiny as the rest of the paint does the clear coat help with that .
+Roman Max yes it does, just clean all the surface and spray about a ten inch radius from where you touched it up, then polish about a 20 inch radius with some meguiars or mothers wax polish, and you can just use a soft cloth to do that and it should look like new
Has the repaired bit fared well after a while? No clear coat fade or w/e?
Idk about this scratch wizard kit, I am amazed the watch how people perform the same results in a multitude of different methods. Really neat to see you genuinely blend the paint and also watching you clear as a final result to match the other end of the bumber is amazing because you have to know your cars paint in order to get that result. I am currently doing some autobody work myself and it is pain staking to get results when you won't settle! Awesome work!
Thank you very much for this, an idiots guide to paint repairs!!!Just followed it exactly having watched it 11 times and taken step by step notes to follow and I can say as a complete novice that this works BRILLIANTLY! I've just managed to get a professional finish on my Subaru. Thank you again!!
And you'd be an idiot to do it
@@octaneartllc got no balls
@@octaneartllc you’re in idiot . This man did his own work himself . Props to him .
Leave the clear coat to dry for a few days then use some car body polish and a micro fiber cloth to bring a little shine to blend the new clear coat into the old
hey ,if anyone else is searching for how to spray paint a car at home try Corbandy Car Sprayer Crusher (do a search on google ) ? Ive heard some extraordinary things about it and my co-worker got cool success with it.
I have spent months researching into painting with a spray gun and discovered a fantastic website at Magic Painter Method (google it if you are interested)
I've been studying spray painting and found a fantastic resource at Magic Painter Method (check it out on google)
I can bring the new clear right up to the old clear?, no clear blend with blender where the new meets old clear?
@Leonel Eduardo stfu
Absolutely superb presentation. I had been trying to fix a small area on my number for weeks and everytime I would take off the tape I would see the tapeline and then I would try to resolve that----with the original area needing to be fixed getting bigger and bigger. Finally someone stepped in and explained how to avoid the picture frame effect and how to blend or feather the new paint and clear into the old. Great info and I finally learned something
Same fucking here! What was the size of a quarter turned into an area 3 inches long. Fml.
Brilliant video, clear and simple. Also no annoying music. Great job 👏
This is the video I’ve been looking for. Other videos would recommend painting the entire car. Com on this is TH-cam
Also masking up a square shape then priming over it so it creates a hard edge is absolutely pointless and creating more work for yourself, just spray the primer over the general area without any tape then wet sand it smooth
What was used to scuf the area at the beginning? (Not sand paper, right?)
agree with you, as I just fucked up
@@jianrenyang9558 i think it is a scuff pad like very fine, probably 600
I believed he used the tape to prevent the primer (which is a different color from the base coat) to lay around since he doesn't do the whole bumper. I would have used some soft edge techniques by folding the tape so the hard edges are not showing up that much tho.
I believed he used the tape to prevent the primer (which is a different color from the base coat) to lay around since he doesn't do the whole bumper. I would have used some soft edge techniques by folding the tape so the hard edges are not showing up that much tho.
Ive watched at least ten or twelve videos on paint scratch repair your. video y far is the 100% best! Clear angles and instructions, dude thank you so much! 👍🏻
This is a good instructional video for repairing paint scratches on the car bumper. The process of doing repair is correct for the most part but he skipped some steps that could have make it much better. Second, if he did not wear any respirator/nose mask or protective clothing, that is dangerous for his lung. There are a few of mistakes he made that you should avoid if you are going to do it yourselves. One is he sanded too much of the primer exposing the bondo filler, he should redo the primer coat to cover the bondo before painting the base coat. Second, he should sand the primer so that it does not feather like it did when he painted the base coat. Third, he should mask the rest of the bumper where he did not scrub and the entire hood at east 2 feet from the paint area so that the paint overspray will not land on these areas. Last but not least, the painting should be done in a low dust area, preferring inside the garage with plastic liner to prevent dust from settling on the wet paint, ruining the finish.
Great video...for those people wondering why their clear coat is not smooth, just gently heat the area with a heat gun before applying the clear coat...also helps with the colour coat.
Great results using the kit I ordered. Color match was spot on. But after a year since application, the clear coat has already broken down from UV damage. I’d still recommend the base color but I’d probably use a 2K clear coat instead
I just did this and to my surprise I somehow had it come out looking pretty good. Thanks, I couldn’t have done it so well without your video!
This was very helpful and matter of fact. Thanks a ton! I was shocked at my own outcome. Not perfect but way ahead of expectations. 🙂
This was SO HELPFUL. I just repaired a scratch on my camry 2015 and the video I watched did NOT tell me about the picture frame effect. I have a hilarious looking area now after three days of careful work. Thank you for this video! I will be redoing it again to avoid the very bad picture frame effect.
Great video. I just learned a trick to prevent the hard edge from the tape. Just roll the edge of tape up and helps prevent having to sand the hard edge out
I purchased this "kit" from them and followed the instructions. It looked good for about a month or two. As time went on the clear coat started to fade. Now, a year or so later, it looks worse than it did when I started. I finally took it to a professional paint shop. As they say, "Your results may vary".
Gonzalo Alvarez Jr There’s a reason. This kit supplies a 1K clear coat, not the two part 2k automotive grade clear. Next time you would just need to buy the 2k on amazon and as long as your prep work is good, should last a LOOOOONG time.
that you edited so without yap yap bs,
concise and to the point made ur clip great.. Thank you..
Color matches like perfectly! This stuff is great if you follow everything perfectly. I am a noob at this and applied some bondo/filler on the primer and it ate at the primer and ruined my sanding so I will have to redo it again. Lesson learned and for those out there so they wont make the same mistake as me. Stuff works like a charm though. Sanding the primer is the most important process to me so take your time on that and make sure it is smooth cause even the smallest lines will show :O
what a great video, I recently bout a car with a small scuff patch and the quote was expensive watched this video and had a go myself and the result was impressive quite happy with myself :)
I bought the kit, took my time, redid the sanding and putty until it looke perfect, and am a happy customer.
can you show me before and after? what color did you repair?
The most helpful video I have come across on TH-cam to deal with this issue Many thanks
Peter
love quick, no nonsense tutorials like this
Best video I've seen out of about five. Nice and clear and not rushed. Well done.
nice...im in the biz myself...Love the way the clearcoat did not run..Always a challenge when working outside with a can.Cheers.PGM
Helpful but wear a mask bro. You just painted and primed your lungs too.
safety first
Clear, concise, no meanders to muddle the message. An info packed, very helpful video.
I would never use anything but catalyzed two part clear coat on a clear finish. As pointed out below this job isn't finished. Wet sanding and buffing is a must on clear coat.
Thanks for clearly explaining/ demonstrating the steps - I can see what I did wrong now. I didn;t sand out 24", I left the taped area on when I sprayed the base coat and more...
Great work man I bumped the side of my car as I was trying to park my ride. I will use your steps! Thanks!
This was so informative and straight to the point. Thank you ☺️
Liam below - you must remember this is for laymen DIY like myself - So thank you ScratchWizard for this video - very useful to know.
ignore all the experts, good job mate thankyou for the heads up...and if your scratch is bigger , by all means do the whole panel.....quicker and less of a hassle
have a small quarter size dent and scrap in my 2014 300c JVL rear bumper . went to body shop just to see the cost . $800 ! i laughed and left him standing there . thx for all the great vids .
Spray paint goes literally everywhere you need to mask way more of the car then shown in this video. Also no need to mask such a small area with a hard edge when priming you are creating more work then necessary.
joe bloggs exactly what I was thinking
How exactly ? If it’s smaller area to sand down? Then if u prime a bigger area u need to sand more down ?
Great video. No rambling, short, and to the point.
Great video. Simple and to the point without all of the BS.
Thanks for the video gives me confidence in my DIY. I’ve got a driver side door that I need to spray and the local body shops say they have to do the whole side of the car which is just a money grabber because I just want the door done so I want to do it myself
Thankyou for taking your busy time to show us how...Really appreciate...
Excellent tutorial. Very thorough, good pace, clearly explained. Thanks.
Good work mate. But with the masking tape when U taped around the repair before U applied primer you can save a lot of sanding by only sticking the tape down hard on the outside edge furthermost away from the repair. You don't stick the edge of the tape down next to the repair so that this edge of the tape is lifted & curled up a little and it does not leave a defined sharp edge on the primer. You can do it with paint and clear as well and the paint or clear automatically feathers itself out and blends in without a defined sharp edge.
Great tutorial! Of course it won't be as good as a professional body shop job but did the trick on my 22 year old car.
Incredible result, didn’t even use compound or polish! Real pro job. Amateurs out there, make sure you getting scrubbing compound too, and a final polish
Great video. I’ve tried this on two cars now, works really well.
Just used this method again and works great! Thank you
Verrrry nice man! At first when you said sand a whole 24" around I went🤔 but then it made sense.. for blending purposes!
You deserve your 1.3 million views. All around excellent video.
very good video. Simple and to the point. Ive searched high and low for a simple video and people make it to complicated.
From someone who has never done this, looks good to me.
The Ice man Series if younhave never done it, it looks good. But if,.... he paints so much more then necessary. No mask, no gloves, horrible.
I think this is a great video. For the money this is a great result instead of paying top dollar for a professional painter. Thanks
Bruh, every time he ended a sentence with an exhale I thought he was bored as hell...like “I hate doing this” LOL
Decent job that mate, got a bit of patch work to do on my Beemer and I shall be following this.
What about wet sending the clear coat? No buff?
You don’t wet sand clear. No sanding after the first pass of clear unless you have something seriously wrong.
@@shimarlie1 some people do with multiple layers of clear but yea generally you would just polish then wax after
Just the video I have been searching for, straight to the point without all the bullshit shouting and dancing around, thank you
I read everywhere that you have to clear coat the entire panel. But I see dozens of videos like this where that is not being done. Will this show an edge? Or look bad over time? If there is an edge in the clear coat, can it be buffed out?
Neat job! Loved the way you presented it (not much useless talking)
Thanks!
Just out of curiosity... What happens when skipping primer on a case like this? I have an area 1/2" wide, 2" long, to do. It's black plastic underneath (not metal).
Probably will peal off over time, something that was not mentioned in the vid is that when you paint bare plastic you will need to apply a coat of adhesion promoter then the rest of the steps
Excellent video, very simple and to the point, well done
Pretty good, would have used adhesion promoter but nice and clear and easy to follow. I'm not trying to be a smart ass expert either, I'm trying to learn, and I learned about adhesion promoter watching another video, just mentioning to help someone else who might read this.
No need for adhesion promoter on previously painted surfaces.
Awsome job, if i'm not mistaken it's the first time you are scuffing as a first step.
3 qustions if i may:
1.Why do you apply 4 coats?
earlier you have said that 3 coats are enough for metalic paint
2.Does blending mean scuffing before buffing out and then applying clear coat over the scuffed area ?
3.What kind of putty do you use, does if contain hardener ?
1. 4 coats were necessary to cover the primer
2. Blending means applying paint so it appears to transition smoothly from old paint to new paint.
3. The putty uses no hardener.
A PROFESSIONAL body shop told me they couldn't do a small area of the bumper , that they would have to paint the whole bumper and they call themselves professionals. I laughed in they face.
Nice tutorial especially not masking tip which I speak from experience went a bit arty my self clear on my spoiler good masking edges. Look fwd to this on my small clear coat errors on my car. Only thing I would say I think you should be wearing a mask and gloves/goggles. Oh and possibly I will wet sand clear coat to merge too.
I do find it interesting when you read this section and you see it full of comments from people instructing on how to ‘really’ do it or how to do it better. My thoughts are, if you already know how to do it better why are you watching an instruction video
Can you tell us what brand of filler you used? That red putty from the tube.
I bought a used car and it runs well.i took it recently though the car wash and it looks like the previous paint job just came off . I have three paint free spots .i can clearly see the metal, what step should I begin ? And thank you for this video,
This is a really neat video. Good working practices, except spraying outside on anything other than a totally windless day.
I ordered a bottle of paint and clear coat, is a primer required?
Don't be afraid to wet sand that "fuzz" area out.....wet sanding is it's own lubricant and you'll get a smoother finish.
thank you thank you for that! 1st I watched your vid on fixing a panel with aerosol products, then the blending one. I've got a diy job going in my carport and with help like you provide I feel it's going to be as good as it can be without going to a professional. Very clear and informative, keep up the good work.
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What grit sandpaper is used for scuffing 24" around scratch?
I'd put 3 coats of clear coat then after a few days buff it with rubbing compound to bring out a smooth shine then wax.
Great video step by step and it worked like a charm
Great vid mate cheers from Australia.
Thank you very much for this video. I would not do this repair myself - but I always wondered how to use those spray cans I saw in Canadian Tire stores (in Canada).
This is the first video I found which shows how to clearly!
Hi do you think the stuff from canadiantire is quality ? I am planning to repair my car and looking wich store to buy .
reading the comments here is quite disheartening. I plan on doing this (almost no experience with paint, limited automotive experience) on a 14-year-old car that has been dinged, scuffed and scratched pretty much everywhere in small patches. The quote I got from an indy was between $800 to $1000 and the car itself is worth maybe 5k all together. So for all the experts here that found the numerous faults, how would you do this differently, because It makes no sense to me to pay 20% of the car's cost to repair the paint.
Do not listen to everybody. You know it, if you take your care to professionals they will do the same but ask you to give them your house. It is an excellent help and satisfactory if you have a car worth less than $8-10000. They think that the richest people in the world are watching youtube to repair their cars? Damn idiots. Here are people who do not have money to spread all over the place.
Just follow step by step how this video shows it.
I would try to prevent the hard edge when priming...just my two cents worth.
How?
@@1semiauto check this video out th-cam.com/video/L8hoOQD6lvg/w-d-xo.html
@@1semiauto by not framing it out with tape you just control the spray to focus on the main area and feather the spray outward around the "edges" of the repair area, then wet sand and clear
I've followed all of these instructions to repair some bad scratches on my Clio, looks great although I'm at the point where I have completed the clear coat but the finish isn't looking as glossy as the rest of the car. Will polishing it bring it out more or do I need a glossier type of clear coat? Thanks
+James Smith well to make it glossy again make sure to apply two layer of clear coat and wait for 30mins or so then spray warm piss on that area to make it same as other paint
+James Smith If you have "fuzzy spots" that means some of the paint went on wet and some went on "dry".
Lightly wet sand with 1500, dry thoroughly, and spray clear again.
If your clear goes on "wet", it may dry a bit dull depending on the quality and drying environment of the clear. Wet sand with 2000, then 3000, then compound or polish. You can do all those by hand.
Practice on a test panel or cardboard to find how close and how fast you
need to move the gun/can to get "wet" finish without getting runs or
sags.
Stay gold
This was very informative and detailed. I appreciate it even if I don’t end up doing all that lol
never leave tape edges should always fold the tape first before applying primer
Just found that out the hard way
i been looking at this set on ebay for a while and after this video in buying. in hoping to get into autobody school and ur video was fun to watch.
u can use a 800 or 1200 of that paper (whatever u call it) to smooth it more
Grit
good job . Only problem You didn't use clear blend or fade out . Where you didn't spray the clear coat on the back of bumper the clear coat you sprayed will leave a haze from the over spray where it meets the original clear coat . you would have to clear the whole bumper or use a clear blend. Not trying to critisize but if people attempt this they should be aware of over spray hazing original clear.
U can see the scratches showing through. U don’t stop with 220 grit. U have to use 320, then 400, then 600, then 800 b4 u prime.
Most of the DIY scratch repairs suggest Wet Sanding soon after cleaning. Why does your method not wet sand before applying putty? When is it best to wet sand versus not wetland?
Great video but if you're doing 2k clear coat which is the best kind to get for autos, you'll need a mask. Generally I wear a mask whenever I spray paint no matter what the situation.
What about where the new clearcoat meets and goes over the shiny Unscuffed old clearcoat toward the front of the bumper? what’s to stop the new clearcoat starting to peel where it overlaps the shiny old clearcoat ?
Great video thanks, really clear directions and very good results.
Is the scuff pad like the rectangle pads you use on dishes?
No issue with applying clear over base overspray in the scuffed/not repainted areas?
This is the very exact video im looking for. Can I ask how long is the drying time and also temps? I don't have an enclosed garage to do this and needing to fix a rust spot
Nice tutorial sir! First i made that picture frame effect mistake, but now I hope that I will get better results :)
Can I wet sand a scratch then spray the touch up paint over scratch? In other words is it ok if the outside areas of touch up spray cover some of the clear coat already on the vehicle..then spray clear over all of it?
Probably confusing
How did you avoid clear coat overspray on the unscuffed area to the left of the 24 inches from the paint area. When spraying the clear coat, once you get to the border of the scuffed and unscuffed area, some of it is bound to land on the unscuffed area and create a haze so how did you go around that?
sand the area down with superfine sandpaper 2000 - 3000 grit wet sand gently, buff and polish
Can Scratchwizard spray paint kit be used on "plastic" bumpers, like a 2007 Honda Civic for instance? Was the bumper in the video made of "plastic"?
Nice job but you should use a respirator especially when using clearcoat.
The only other advice I'd throw in is always use two part automotive clear coat. It's way harder and doesn't get foggy from sun light. Little more expensive but definitely worth it.
I had sand a small inch of paint off my passenger door and left a white patch. Can I use the same method in this video for that small white patch? But without the puddy of course because it’s not a hole or anything but just paint came off. So I apply the color matching my car and then apply clear coat on it? And what do I need to do to make sure I blend it in with the rest of my door? Apply polish?
I tried this, in less than a year the paint and clear coat Cracked and split away...and yes I did the prep work. I ended up sanding and buffing it all off.
Did you use the same kit?