Beginner's Guide: How To Paint A Car At Home In 4 Easy Steps - Eastwood

Broken down into 4 easy steps, this is the definitive guide to achieving professional results while painting at home in your garage or driveway. Let's get started!

Since 1978 Eastwood has been supplying products to the people who want to do the job right. Eastwood offers a complete line of hand tools, welders, plasma cutters & accessories, metal working tools, powder coating supplies, paint and paint guns, specialty paints and hard to find products, all for the DIY-er. Eastwood has all the tools and supplies you need to restore your car, truck or motorcycle.

How to paint a car at home! Learn every step from bare metal to color sanding and buffing. We teach you how to block sand, how to apply body filler, how to sand body filler, how to spray primer, how to spray high build primer, how to sand primer, how to spray basecoat with an HVLP paint gun, how to spray clear and how to color sand and buff to get a perfect finish. We even show you all the tools you need to paint a car.

How to paint a car yourself.

[juantriumph]

I love these videos. I followed his instructions to a T. Started in October 2017 and now it's October 2019. Many milestones have passed....lost my job, wife left me, lost 60 lbs...but I'm now onto my second door! So yay me!

[michaelcolbert]

Thank you so much for this detailed, step by step instruction. You have convinced my husband to take his car in to a professional to get painted. Again, thank you.

[cvspvr]

legend has it that if you visit the eastwood company workshop, you can hear the ghosts of all the workers who died before they could finish sanding their door

[Carguy-spxj]

This is probably the best automotive comment section I have ever seen. Y’all got me crying over here🤣🤣

[rorschacht]

My great great grandfather started this process and it has been passed along every generation, I was brought up by my dad with this door helping him sand every day. We reached step 3 today, but no time for celebration, we must sand more. My life is just that...that door... there is no end... For the love of God send help, please.

[hardwod]

True Story: This man was 18 when he started the process of painting the door. He is now a proud father and grandfather. His two kids have started families of their own and begun the simple 4-step process of painting a car door too. God bless them.

[boxingproff]

Now this guy is a professional. Skips no steps, no matter how small. He is extremely detailed in his work, no imperfection is too small to over look.

[moparfan]

When you are done you can see the reflection of a penny in your new paint job, because that's all you'll have left. But seriously, now I understand why a nice paint job cost so much.

[erichroberts]

after 5 years, 20k in equipment and schooling, i finally finished my door.
thanks Eastwood!

[blitzz]

"4 Easy Steps"


4 easy steps has left the room

[LEODIVINE]

I came here with some confidence. Now I have zero confidence

[nevillesommerfeld]

Sands panel 19 times, uses tack rag 43 times to remove impurities. Paints panel outside and has a bird walk all over it.👍

[Nox]

19:45 that _"no big deal, just apply 2 more coats of clear"_ with that faint smile on his face looked so sadistic...

[chasey]

Been following this guide for the past 4 months while I fully restore my 240sx. I'm at the wet sanding stage for my clear coat. For everyone saying there is too much sanding, its really not that bad. Took about 14 hours to block the entire car to prep for base and my god did this ever turn out spectacular. Thanks Eastwood!

[flyurway]

I've been painting cars for 43 years ... done 6 so far!

[emmettjesse]

Thanks so much for this video. I am restoring an 88" Ford F150 for my son who is in the Army. I haven't painted a car in over 50 years and your clear instructions are exactly what I need.

[sliceofbutter]

Now that we are quarantined, I might have enough time to finally paint my whole ca.... i mean door.

[stephenbray]

When you buff through the clear no problem just start all over a gain.

[russsmith]

I love to see people take the time and use their craftsmanship in a way to achieve beyond believable results. I purchased my 2002 Ford F150 lightning with 4000 miles on it under the assumption that that he had never been wrecked before I was wrong, it was beat the pieces, including the roof that I found out many years down the road. . I would be honored to have someone like you finally fix it and take it back to the original shape. My health is dwindling fast and I’m gonna give it to my daughter because she loves anything low bad and fast and she spent 11 hours and 500 miles every other weekend in it back-and-forth to pick her up for 14 years in my truck. She loves it and she will be heartbroken to know that it has been wrecked and I spent all this you’re trying to take care of it as best as I could. Now at 280, 000 of miles road rash from the interstate I went through and replaced everything moving underneath it as far as all the suspension wise goes but the paint is rough. I’m gonna try to repaint it and do the best I can by watching your videos over and over and over. It’s nice to see somebody take their time and do things the right way. That’s funny because that’s the email address I have is the right way 55. so wish me luck. Thanks again.

[CharleswoodSpudzyofficial]

You guys are complaining that it will take too long to finish, but it only took this guy 24 minutes. Y'all are a bunch of babies