How to Clean a Car Body Before Painting

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Part of the video series: How to Custom Paint a Car

Summary: Use wax and grease remover to clean a car body before you give it a custom paint job; learn how from our expert custom-car mechanic in this free auto-restoration video.

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By Doug Jenkins
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Doug Jenkins runs Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods in St. Louis, where he restores classic cars and creates mild to wild custom street rods. He races a 1972 Corvette in the SCCA...read more

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"Hi, I'm Doug, I work with 20 great guys in Saint Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and we are going to do some work for you on Expert Village. I said it is important to have everything clean, we have these really expensive paper towels. Tony is getting everything ready to kind of a routine that he goes through with every paint job. We start with waxing grease remover. You buy it in a can and you put in this little pump sprayer and he gets it really wet with that so it soaks in really good and remove any wax or grease. Really anything so much as you have some fried chicken on your hands and you touch the car at one point. If some guys sneezes and touches with greasy hands from working on a car. Honest to goodness hair gel, underarm deodorant. All that sort of stuff raised the paint so he is going to clean and clean it before he paints it. "

eHow Article: How to Clean a Car Body Before Painting