Why do You Paint Your Car?

Series Summary

Every car gets paint chip damage at some point. What do you do when it happens? You can take your car to the auto body shop to get painted or you can fix the paint damage and paint your car yourself. Painting a car is not easy but it is certainly not impossible to learn how, especially if you have an expert show you how to repair car paint damage. If you would like to learn how to repair car paint damage on your own car, you can learn for free from our experts.

In this free how-to video series, learn how to repair car paint damage from Doug Jenkins and his crew of mechanics and car restoration experts. They will teach you all the steps you need to know to repair paint damage such as paint chips. They will demonstrate how to sand out car paint damage, how to mix body filler, how to apply body filler to paint chips, how to scuff old clear coat to apply new clear coat, how to apply clear coat to a car, how to match touch up paint to original paint, how to clean your car before painting, how to spray the base coat of car paint, how to spray metal flake paint on a car, how to mix clear coat, and finally how to buff a new paint job.

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Doug I work with 20 great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and we are going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. In this clip we are going to talk about why you paint your car. A car is made out of metal or fiber glass. You paint it to primarily protect it and secondary to make it look awesome. This is a awesome looking paint job but paint if easy to damage, and this one has been damaged right here. This 32 roadster was painted with a multi step process. It has flames, it has color fades, it has metal flakes, and it got chipped over here on top of the grill shell and so you can see where it a little bit gray. It went right down to the primer so this is not a repair that you can do with just a touch up brush and a little dab of clear. You would always be able to see it then so we have to sand this down, respray the whole thing and try to blend in with the rest of the paint. The part of the car that got damage is the grill shell. It goes around here and hold the grill in place. You saw that it was painted dark maroon color. That is done by putting a base color on and then some metal flakes and then we sprayed some candy over the top to dual the flake a little bit. But it starts with the maroon color and fades back gently all the way to the yellow and the white tips there. We have to be able to match that color exactly in the front in order for the repair not to show. "