How to paint a car with your own hands in the garage - practical tips

Car painting is required, if the old paintwork has scratches, since, or just want to change the color of the car. Before doing this work you need to ask yourself a question: and am I willing to spend a lot of money, sending the car to the car service for painting? If not, you can do car painting work with your own hands. And in compliance with the sequence of stages and the choice of quality paint, primers and putties a successful result is provided to you.

Painting the car body in the garage

Tools

To paint a car with your own hands, you will need, primarily, find premises for these purposes. The best option would be a car garage: painting a car indoors, you will avoid the deposition of dust and insects on freshly applied paint.

The equipment will come in handy:

• spotlight. If you are painting a small area, you can do with an extra lamp. You can also use a spotlight to heat the room, accelerating the drying of the soil or paint;
• Bulgarian. You will prepare the surface for painting, removing the old layer of paint to the bare iron of the machine. This device can act as a polishing for the body and will help to cope with grinding much faster;

The Bulgarian will help to cope with grinding of a body of the car

• sandpaper. Will be useful for processing small sections of the car body with your own hands or will be a full-fledged replacement for a grinder. It is necessary to take for processing at least 2 see paper: small- and coarse-grained;
• plane or wooden beam, where you can attach sandpaper;
• constructional (industrial) hair dryer. Will be useful for removing stickers, molding and other styling elements. exept this, required to accelerate the drying of the surface;
• glasses, respirator (painting mask) and gloves. Provide protection of respiratory organs and eyes from hit inside paint and varnish materials and the smallest particles of metal dust, which is formed during grinding;
• spray gun. This product can be applied with a primer, putty (pre-diluted with solvent) and paint, reducing the cost of time and effort;

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With the help of a compressor and an airbrush we will apply paint to the car

• compressor. The airbrush at work also is connected to it. The usual automobile compressor will be suitable for household use, to which you need to buy filters for oil and moisture.

As for consumables, then at different stages of the work you will need:

• shampoo;
• degreaser;
• putty for leveling the surface;
• primer;
• paint.

If you do not paint the whole car, and its components, then plots, which you will not process, it is best to close to avoid contamination or damage. This can be done with the help of film and masking tape. It is also important to close the elements of the brake system.

We cover all places with a film on which we will not put paint

preparatory process

Arranging and removing dust from the garage for painting, take old car parts or a sheet of steel, to try with your own hands to spend a full cycle of painting, including preparatory stages of grinding, washing and priming.

This will help you determine the best distance for the application of consumables, grinding quality and understand, how much time will be spent, to paint the car "really".

The algorithm for preparing the car for painting with their own hands is as follows:

• Wash the car, then wipe thoroughly and dry. After drying, apply degreaser, which will provide excellent adhesion of the paint composition.

Degrease the car before painting

• Remove the individual body parts (moldings, spoilers). For convenience and prevention of hit of paints and varnishes on not painted surface it is better to remove and paint separately a door., hood and other components.
• Start removing the previous paintwork. This will ensure the durability of the newly applied paint and prevent the manifestation of its old layer in the event of chipping or scratching.. For trouble-free removal, you can apply a special paint remover. It will swell after a while, and the material peels off easily from the surface.
• Even if at the previous stage you used a special tool and did not remove the paint with a sander, you will still have to use them at the stage of rust removal, putties and primers. You must remove all substances applied to the metal. Bare metal should not be left untreated - work should be resumed as soon as possible.

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