The CHEAPEST Way to Permanently Fix Peeling Paint!

[Music] what's going on everyone and welcome back to another episode of paint society the channel where the learning doesn't stop when the video ends now in this episode we're going to attack how to fix that fading paint in your home garage using a variety of high quality spray cans so let's go ahead and get started so when we take a closer look at what is actually going on here we can see that the base coat is right here and the clear coat is fading at this edge right here now this clear coat is intact still but anywhere where you see the fading line is where the clear coat is breaking down and it's eventually moving down the panel and eventually there'll be only base coat left so we must understand when doing this job we're just trying to make our paint look better we have a very small budget we don't have fancy compressors fancy paint guns and if we were to bring this into a body shop we could be paying at least a thousand dollars to get these two panels refinished and for a car of this age it's just not really a good idea to put that much money into the car and to do this repair 100 percent perfect in a body shop you would need to remove all this fading paint down to metal condition the metal build it back up with the appropriate primers and that's just not the type of project that this is and for this job we're going to simplify things and use eagle abrasives job pack now the reason why i like the job pack is because it's just what you need and it's not a whole bunch of extra paper now this is a k series that comes with k 600 k 800 and k 1200 it also comes with a hand pad that i've already been using and the reason why i like k-series is because it is a dry paper and it cuts at a much lower speed than it says on the back of the paper so for instance a k-600 will leave a k-600 scratch but it will cut at the speed of let's say a p320 so it kind of cuts out the time that you'll need in between so we'll first start with the k600 and we're going ahead and put it on our hand pad now before we get started on sanding i know a common question i'm going to have is can i just put new clear coat over it if my clear coat is faded and although you can do that it's not going to look right simply because we're not sanding it right and we're putting clear coat over a very bumpy surface and it's going to peel because there's no chemical adhesion between the two or physical adhesion so the best thing that we need to do is feather out the transition between the two uh the clear coat and the base coat and the line where it is starting to fade and no fancy tools like we said all we're gonna do is just sand down that line and you can see how much it's caking up how easy is that right there right it's making it smooth and from here we'll be good to go now the reason why i like this this is 600 grit so we don't have to worry about such harsh uh sand scratches that we need to recover from and look it it does the job it's exactly what we need for it and also what you want to focus is not just the edge right but if we carry it a little bit um further down the panel we'll see that we start to have deterioration further down so make sure you're hitting up all those areas as well and you'll know based off looking on it at it does it does it looks smooth does it feel smooth and a little elbow grease and it will smooth right out there's no need to use any water when sanding because this paper is designed to be used dry that's one of the cool things about it and the reason why i prefer using it now if you want to make sure you have a very uniform scratch there's a block that you can use and we'll use that on a quarter panel and it will just put equal pressure that way we're not pushing in and creating little ripples or dents and from time to time that paper will go ahead and clog up so get yourself a brush just dust it off and you'll be fine and your hands are your best friend just feel it if it feels just a little bit rough keep giving it a little bit of sand we want to feather it out what feather it means is we're smoothing out the layers okay we're smoothing out the transition between the two so when we prime it we have a good surface to go on and we can sand it nice and smooth for our base coat now as a good in-between cleaner i always recommend trayway glass cleaner it is aroma-free it doesn't have any added scents that might leave a film on the finish that will give us any sort of like fish eyes and it's relatively cheap i prefer to use a microfiber towel as well as they get dirty you just throw them in the wash with some degreaser and they clean right up it's a good way to get all the contaminants or let's say dust off of the surface works way better than a paper towel and after it's clean i can feel once again i can feel a little roughness right here so once again i'll take my hand pad and just go over that surface over in here a little rough you can see some peeling clear still then just foam it up again give her another wipe and reinspect to see if it's completely smooth we went ahead and got everything masked up to make sure we don't get any over spray on any exterior panels that we don't want primer on now the rest of all the panels are sanded up to 600 grit we have some areas where we did some body work over on a door and over on the quarter panel now the primer that we're going to be using is a 1k primer surfacer from paint scratch so the paint products that we're going to be using today are brought to you by paintscratch.com and well a better alternative than just going to your store and picking up you know your dupli color and will explain why they're better as far as base coats are concerned and color matching technology and all that great stuff now this is a 1k product that means you don't have to worry about it drying up in the can in a few days later so we went ahead and we used a 600 grit sand scratch all around our k600 now it only calls for let's say a p320 but i do know how rattle cam primers they do shrink and i don't want it to shrink into a 320 grit scratch so that's why i went up just a little bit in my experience i find that that's best and i'll just give it one final clean before we go ahead and prime you can never be too clean now we don't need the primer everywhere we only need the primer the areas that we have body work and the areas where we sand it where there's actually our quote-unquote good paint right we don't need to put primer on that see we're using the primer as a filler to fill in the little sand scratches or the porousness of the body filler to give us a surface that we can sand and get it ready for paint so make sure you shake this up for a few minutes and then we're ready to apply over those troubled areas we're going to give it about two to three light coats so let's make sure we not only primer where the seam was between the transition but let's also primer where the base coat was exposed and we don't go overboard on the first coat let's just get that primer on and we're going to let it flash and flash is a term we use for allowing it to dry in between coats allow it to flash for a good 10 minutes now i just showed you two coats but i actually did a third one and this is after three coats and it's looking really really good no reactions it's still looking nice and smooth let's allow this to really dry let's give it a good hour to cure up before we start sanding it so this is just about dry an hour later and you might be wondering brian how come i just can't use a rattle can primer on everything i do and how come you don't use it back at the shop well back at the shop we need to be able to have a primer that's a little bit thicker to be sprayed out of a paint gun now that thicker primer is a 2k primer that means it has a hardener and has a primer itself now when they mix together that is how it cures this primer coming out of the can is a 1k and well it naturally dries just by the movement of air going over it now this particular primer won't have the build that a 2k primer does but for this particular project it's a perfect material to use now at this point we're ready to sand our primer now you can use any black paint or you can use a guide coat a guide coat is going to not clog up your sandpaper as much and what a guide coat does is it shows you where you sew up the sand you don't need to get full coverage it should look something just like this when you're done the point is all the little black speckles get into the grittiness of all of the primer and it's going to show you where you need to stand and where you have already sanded it goes something just like this we're equipped with our k800 on our block and we're just going to go ahead and sand now we can see the areas that have been sanded already because we have our black guide coat still here and we have clean primer here now we'll continue this along the whole entire way keeping in mind you'll still need to go ahead and brush off that sandpaper since we're dealing with a higher grit it might clog just a little bit easier than that k600 and then of course we can switch back to our hand pad if we need for any of those tighter areas that we might need to get into now what i like to do once it's all sanded is i like to pull it back out and give everything a good wash with a prep and clean and a gray scuff pad that way we can make sure that all the residue is off the car is clean it's gonna give us a better chance for a much cleaner paint job [Music] [Music] and after it's been taped up it should look something just like this now you notice that we did leave our door handle in and our molding now in a car just like this of this age we're just trying to get some paint on it we're not too worried about taking those two items off especially because they are color matched and speaking of color match this is our color right here from paintscratch.com b92p this is the exact same paint that you'd get out of a paint gun but it's put into a spray can and that's why i'm so excited to have two materials that are compatible with each other so we won't have any wrinkling down the road now you can look up your paint code using the door jamb usually most cars you'll find it there although it is in different areas if you hop on the website you'll be able to help identify where it is on your particular car now paintscratch.com also offers different variations so if you're having a problem with your color you can always send something in for anacost they can do a custom match now on all cars there are going to be variances remember that honda does not manufacture paint for this particular vehicle okay they manufacture cars so there's no such thing as honda paint uh depending on the facility that this car was painted in uh the time it was painted in that will cause uh the paint to have different variations right so uh when you send in your color keep in mind they're gonna most likely go with the most popular also known as prime or standard so it's up to you to take that color do a spray out of it all right give it a couple coats and make sure that this color matches now there's so many different variances and reasons why it might not match your car could have been repainted cars faded right for this particular job well i think it's going to be good enough we're ready to start getting spraying we're going to use the base coat first we're going to do about two to three coats see how it covers and then lay down some clear two-part clear let's get rolling [Music] now the final coat of base is all done you saw me using a light now this light shines through and shows you if you have any light spots down the primer and well it looks good and let's get ready for clear [Music] and so we're back here a day later and the paint is still looking really really shiny so what we're going to do is you have the option of doing a sand and buff and we're going to use the eagle braces k2000 job pack just to kind of level off the paint where it might be just a little bit maybe orange peely or it might have a little bit of texture in there and then we'll go ahead and use our csi buffing compound and polish all in one and get this thing shined up and get it ready for the road again it's looking really really good and hey guys if you're interested in painting this good and looking this good if you want to go over to the website down below and pick up a shirt to running accessories you can do that and greatly help support the page and until the next time guys this is brian from paint society reminding you don't overthink it it's just paint let's finish this thing up [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Music]

Channel: Paint Society

Views: 1,236,434

Keywords: paint, faded, shine, spray, cans, spray cans, home, diy, how to, black, honda, civic, learn, refinish, gun, paint gun, garage, crash, collosion, collision, repair, salvage, harbor freight

Id: UywE_eY-Si0

Length: 18min 40sec (1120 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 06 2021