STEP BY STEP: Fix A Large Paint Chip or Scratch In Your Cars Paint

Welcome to our comprehensive guide on repairing large paint chips or scratches in your car's paint finish. Whether it's a minor parking lot mishap or a deeper scrape, we've got you covered with our step-by-step tutorial. Save money on professional repairs and restore your car's appearance with this easy-to-follow DIY process.

How to use a paint pen on a car scratch?

In this video, we'll cover the following key steps:

**Gathering Supplies:** We'll provide you with a list of essential materials and tools you'll need for the repair.

**Preparation:** Understand the importance of proper cleaning and surface preparation to ensure a smooth, long-lasting finish.

**Filling and Sanding:** Watch as we demonstrate how to fill in the chip or scratch and sand it down for a seamless result.

**Painting:** Get tips on choosing the right paint and applying it evenly to match your car's color.

**Clear Coat:** Learn about clear coating and the final steps to make your repair virtually invisible.

With $20 and a little bit of patience, you can restore your car's paint job and maintain its resale value. Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell to stay updated with more informative car care tutorials like this one.

If you have any questions or need clarification on any step, please leave a comment, and we'll be happy to assist you. Thanks for watching, and happy DIY car repair!

[KSGT]

Tip: Mix the white base with the clearcoat, then apply 2 or 3 final coats on top. It will match. Also, use 1000 grit min. 400/600
is way too harsh and will take out your factory paint in no time.

[Jamesp-uwgf]

People don't seem to realize that producing paints with color consistency is nearly impossible. Great video, rust prevention is really important.

[rawcasts]

DO NOT sand your car with 400 grit people please.... Also, how do you miss the easiest/most useful part of this process? A little bit of compound and polish!!! Doesn't even require power tools, just hand compound, hand polish, and itll look 10x better than what you have now.

[jjt]

Thank you.
It's very easy within your reach to have continue to have sanded the clear coat flush, then polish with a cloth and some compound by hand.

[edify]

You did a great job explaining this! Now to put it into action on my vehicle!

[tonyinit]

Thank you - my dad scratched his car and asked me to fix it (I has no clue but feeling braver now !) 👍

[KEVINBRIGHTSUN]

Thank you so much for this detailed demonstration. Super helpful!

[Jus-Too-Smoove]

Great video. Learned a lot. Time to touch up the Caddy now.

[ET-vjzc]

Thanks for the excellent video, truly helps.

[johnoh]

Thabk you from Australia. Very helpful

[wellh]

Great, Canada always presents the best of informative people eh.❤best regards 🇨🇦

[mikez]

That will probably hold up, but when things go down to bare metal, you should etch or put some type of direct to metal primer on there.

[GingerArchey]

Never use any thing lower then 1500 on clear coat it will leave deep scratches on white you can get away with using 1000 but any other Color you will see deep scratches an buff the whole panel to blend the repair

[JayOnOneWheel]

Quick tip for gm cars…. Inside the glove box there’s a “ service parts identification “ sticker and at the bottom left corner there will be
“ BC/CC U 726S “ that was an example of a Silverado I just did yesterday. But if not all then most Gm cars will have it there.

[johnavi]

Once the surrounding clear gets decontaminated it'll look better. Back of the car is usually covered in dirt and brake dust.

[mlhm]

Amazon is your friend for 1000+ grit paper and you can use a pink eraser to wrap your sandpaper over to make a sanding block.

[DigitalHabit]

Your paint code is under the QR code on the manufactur sticker, yours is 8624 - Olympic White

[kevkav]

Very good instruction video, I think if you had finished off machine polishing the area, it would have been even better!

[andybrace]

I'd put another sticker back in it's place

[TheIdeolocator]

Great vid, very helpful. What do you do if your paint came out patchy after sanding? Also, I've seen people use polish after sanding? Will that help? Thanks from Japan