How to paint a chip on a car. Handling severe defects

30.03.2019

Modern manufacturers produce cars with anti-corrosion treatment bodies with various primers and compositions, improved paintwork. small damage, such as scratches and chips, especially to bare metal, can cause serious problems in the future. It is worth asking in advance how to properly tint chips on a car. The services of professional car painters are usually expensive.

You can't prevent small body damage. They appear during operation. Pebbles knock down paint, reagents, saline solutions, moisture accelerate the appearance of corrosion. You can solve the problem on your own. To repair the paintwork easily, quickly, without high costs, you will need a special tint. This is an inexpensive material that does not require special skills or special equipment.

How to tint chips on a car in order to achieve the perfect result? The procedure can be performed independently, and so that the new coating cannot be distinguished from the factory one. It is enough to follow simple instructions.

Diagnostics to detect damage

First, the body must be washed well and wiped dry. As you inspect each component, try to spot defects right away. This will allow you to immediately assess the scale of the work, determine the required amount of materials, and not miss anything. Good lighting is required for viewing. It is best to do this in clear weather.

Choosing the Right Materials

First you need to determine the degree of damage, their scale. The choice of material depends on the nature of the defect:

a small scratch or chip - buy a small bottle of tint, along with a degreaser, primer, varnish in the same amount;
medium defects, or it is necessary to restore the whole body element- you will need an aerosol can of soil with a volume of 520 ml, paint;
significant disadvantages - cans of professional paint, primer, varnish with a capacity of 1 liter or more.

Tints from aerosol cans are no worse than professional ones in terms of characteristics. To choose the color of the material, you should use the VIN code of the car or the paint code. An effective option- Computer shade selection. It is good if the body has darkened, burned out or been repainted before. If in the latter case an enamel made according to the international RAL standard was used, the process will go faster.

Material application process

To carry out repairs efficiently and achieve a lasting result, you need to use several devices. This is a primer for plastic or metal, degreaser, varnish, paint. If body defects are small, 60 ml bottles are sufficient.

How to paint chips on a car? The sequence of work is as follows:

To remove grease, dirt from the surface, you need to apply a degreaser. If you neglect this procedure, you may encounter delamination of the coating. Traces of corrosion are removed with special rust converters or fine-grained abrasives.
Deep defects are primed after degreasing - this is necessary for corrosion protection and good paint adhesion. Plastic parts need a specialized primer.
The compositions are applied with a special brush. Materials must be distributed evenly. The remains are erased with light movements, with a rag. If several layers are applied, between them you need to take breaks of 15 minutes.

It remains to cover the treated and previously degreased area with varnish. So, it will naturally shine, acquire an aesthetic appearance. Lacquering should be started only after the paint has completely dried.

Polishing

This procedure will help align the transitions between the new and old coating, smooth out uneven areas. Residues that protrude from the surface should be smoothed out with fine-grained abrasives with a hard backing. In the process, the body is wetted with water. Car polish is used to restore shine.

The technology described above will restore coverage and save on the services of specialists. A primer with a degreaser will provide a high-quality, lasting result.

How tint is used

Chips and scratches are not always evident, but their appearance negatively affects the condition of the car. The paintwork has a protective function. Deep damage gradually rusts, and then their repair will be very expensive.

How to paint chips on a car? The technology is as follows:

Examine the surface, evaluate the scale of the work. If the paint layer is not damaged, you can use abrasive polishing.
The area to be repaired must be washed and dried.
In addition to removing rust, use acid or etch primers. Then, for better adhesion, you need a primer for metal.
The cleaned area is degreased. There are tools designed specifically for this.

If in doubt about the safety of a degreaser, or if you are not using a special fluid, test the material first. Apply to a rag a large number of and wipe the most inconspicuous area of \u200b\u200bthe body. Do you see traces of coating on the rag, or notice that it was painted in the color of the car? So, they chose the wrong liquid.

Most the best option- solvent or alcohol compositions. Petroleum products and aggressive solvents will only harm the vehicle.

If you have chosen to apply a bottle of paint with a brush, shake the container well beforehand. With a brush, fill the defect smoothly and evenly throughout the entire depth. Try not to do this for long, because one-component tinting compositions seize quickly.

In modern body coatings, there are no NC enamels. Buy methacrylic or urethane compounds, the use of which involves a two-layer layout. First, a base coat (paint) is applied, then a varnish.

If the kit contains too large a brush, it will not be possible to carefully paint over the defect. It is better to use a different brush, or just cut off the extra villi.

After completion, inspect the treated areas. Poorly painted places are cleaned of the dry coloring composition with solvents or degreasers. Then the painting procedure must be repeated.

Thanks to modern technologies, repair of deep and small chips possible without full painting details. Local (point) touch-up of chips and scratches in the "Defects - No" will help to keep the factory paint layer.

REPAIR OF CHIPS AND SCRATCHES PRICE:

	Repair of chips and scratches		Price
	Car body chip repair		500 rub.
	Repair of minor scratches by polishing (one part)		from 500 rub.
	Repair of deep scratches by retouching (one part)		from 800 rub.
	Paintless dent removal and repair		from 700 rubles
	Local painting of chips, scratches, dents (one piece)		from 1499 rub.
	Local body repair		from 2000 rub.

Heavy use, low quality road surfaces and accidents provoke damage to the paintwork of the car body. Untimely repair chips and scratches leads to corrosive processes. Even small chips on the body can not be ignored. Chips under the influence of aggressive environment increase over time. Rust spots appear around, the integrity of the metal is broken.

Repair of chips and scratches on the car body

Minor chips and scratches causing damage to the base layer. To eliminate this kind of chips and scratches, spot tinting, followed by drying and polishing, will be required.
Deep chips and scratches. Recovery deep damage local tinting of chips and scratches will be required. Depending on the area of damage, painting can be local or global. Painting the entire part is required when more than 50% of the area of the part is damaged.
Scratches and chips with traces of corrosion and rust. Removal of chips and scratches and other chronic damage to the coating is carried out by stripping the damaged area to bare metal. In advanced cases, the use of a rust converter is required before priming and touching up.

Local painting of chips and scratches - the advantages of the procedure

Saving. Quantity Supplies minimal, as a result of which the repair of deep scratches and chips on the body is inexpensive. Saves time too. The minimum duration is 30-40 minutes, the maximum is no more than 4-5 hours. Depends on the severity of the damage.
Minimum intervention the integrity of the original factory paintwork. Removing chips on the body, as well as removing scratches and scuffs, allows you to keep the factory coating to the maximum.
The strength of all joints is maintained, starting from welds and ending bolted connections. During local repair, the part is not dismantled.

Why is it better for car owners to contact “No Defects”

We save time. Professional repair scratches and chips on the bumper, fender, door, or hood performed by the masters of the car service “No Defects” saves time for car owners. The duration of local repair does not exceed 3-4 hours.

We carry out a wide range repair work. The most basic types are local repair paintless chips and scratches, repairing paintless dents and restoring the paintwork by polishing.

We select the shade of color with jeweler's precision. A new layer of paintwork will not differ from the factory one.

We individually approach each client and provide guarantee for all work performed by us. Having entrusted us with the repair of scratches, chips, do not hesitate - your car is in reliable and caring hands! Call and sign up for a consultation with professionals.

The appearance of chips on the car body is an inevitable process, because if you do not protect it with anti-gravel coatings, then stones and sand falling from the road destroy the paintwork at speed. At first, these are point damages, which are very noticeable on the same hood, but over time they can become centers of rust development on the surface, and this is already more serious problem. That is why many motorists want to paint chips on cars with their own hands, without resorting to the services of workshops and saving money. In this article, we will consider several options for “treating” these defects at home and give recommendations on how to carry out the work.

It is worth noting that the procedure for repairing chips on a car can cost you both a few dollars and several hundred dollars, it all depends on the type of car and the level of damage to the paintwork layer.

Paint over chips on the surface of the body can be done in two ways:

If there are a lot of them, for example, there are more than 10 - 15 deep chips on the hood, then here it is definitely necessary to repaint the part, by local or complete renovation. In any case, there will be a stage of grinding, puttying (if necessary), priming and applying a new layer of paint and varnish.
Filling the chip with paint with a small brush, drying it and polishing it. Suitable for removing single chips on the part, and requires a special selection of paint color so that small colors do not stand out on the general surface of the part.

Local repair with a brush

material for such partial renovation select according to the main factory coating. If it is acrylic, paint the chip with acrylic of the same tone. A more complex selection of paint for metallics and even after polishing a slightly different shade may be observed, but if you are satisfied with such minor flaws, then you can safely repair the chip in this way.

The process looks like this.

We glue the treated area with masking tape and use fine-grained sandpaper to mat the surface and the edges of the chip (with P1500 or P2000 abrasive), after which we apply enamel with a brush. We are waiting for 8 - 10 hours of its drying. This time can be shortened by using an IR emitter.
We rub with the help of abrasive P2000.
We polish the treated area, then remove the tape and polish the entire part to smooth out the transition on a small chip.

If acrylic paint is used and the color is chosen correctly, the result will be very good and almost invisible when visual inspection. If metallic, then due to the fact that the paint with a brush lays down a little differently than with the same spray gun, and the tone of the smeared chip may differ.

Repair and painting of deep chips on the car

Deep chips appear from large gravel, which, although rare, can come from a car driving in front. What to do in this case? Repaint the entire hood? Many masters choose local transition painting as a solution to the problem. Under deep cleavage we understand when the paint layer is completely broken through to the metal of the body and perhaps the metal itself is slightly concave.

The algorithm for painting a chip on a car in this case is as follows.

Pasting the treated area with masking tape with a margin of about 5-7 cm around the edges.
Cleaning the edges of the chip, we remove all the departed paint, despite the fact that the processing area may increase slightly.
Anti-corrosion treatment.
Painting with epoxy primer.
Further, if there is a dent, we dilute the universal automotive putty with a hardener and fill the chip with putty until the surface plane is completely leveled. After drying, we grind with a fine-grained abrasive like P2000.
We apply a layer of soil in the tone of the main coating.
With the help of an airbrush (in extreme cases, a brush), we apply several layers of paint with an interval for drying for 10 - 15 minutes.
We dilute the paint with a solvent in a ratio of 1: 3 and apply it to the transition between the repaired area and the factory paintwork. Then dilute again by 50% and apply another layer.
We open the surface, entering the transition area with varnish, and after complete drying, we polish the part.

Fast temporary chip repair

There are cases when, when you see a chip on a car, you don’t have the time or money to repair it, but you don’t want to start the problem, then you can solve the problem for a while with the help of a can of epoxy primer, which you can buy in almost any auto store. Also, some motorists use nail polish. To apply the material, take masking tape, glue the tape completely around the circle and apply primer from a spray can, or varnish with a brush. Try to choose the most similar color of the material.

Another option for emergency chip repair can be the use of auto plasticine or simple adhesive tape. A small piece is cut out of plasticine or adhesive tape and glued to the damaged area of \u200b\u200bthe part. Such protection will not last long, but it minimizes the risk of corrosion. It is best to paint over the existing chips on the machine as soon as possible according to the technology.

How do you deal with car cracks? Looking forward to your comments below.

The problem of the appearance of chips on the hood, wings and doors of the car appeared, probably, as soon as the first car left the road. Moreover, this does not depend on the professionalism and experience of the driver. It is known that the paintwork consists of several layers. Depending on which of them is damaged, one or another recovery method is selected. And it is very easy to determine the level of malfunction visually. How to remove chips on a car with your own hands? How to act in this or that case? This will be discussed further.

Applying paste or polish

If only the top layer of varnish is damaged on the hood, doors or fenders, then dealing with the problem is as easy as shelling pears. To eliminate such chips, you will need a polish or a low-abrasive paste. They will help to remove the top layer of varnish from the car, thereby making the surface uniform. It is worth noting that polishes and pastes not only remove the top varnish layer, but also polish the surface, protecting it from new damage. When working with such mixtures with your own hands, you need to be careful not to accidentally remove the entire layer of varnish.

How to use a wax pencil?

Everything would be fine, but there are chips that damage not only the varnish, but also the layer responsible for the shade of the car. To close them up, a wax pencil is often used (see photo), and its color must completely match the swelling of the machine. The mixture completely fills the defect, making it invisible against the general background. But this method has one drawback - over time, under the influence of precipitation and moisture, the coloring substance begins to wear off the surface. That is why the staining procedure will have to be repeated from time to time.

Handling severe defects

What to do if the chips on the hood or doors of the car are so deep that they have reached the primer or even metal? You can repair them with a repair pencil, which, in fact, is a paint with impurities that provide additional protection. The biggest problems, if it is decided to remove chips by this method, it occurs during the selection of a shade of paint. It can be selected by code, but they may not always match and, in addition, the paint tends to fade over time, so you can not guess with a shade. It is best to select the color of the restoring pencil visually. Although this may take a long time, the result will be justified.

If the chips on the car are repaired with a restoring pencil, then you can be sure that it will not wash off over time and will not change its shade. After the main layer is applied to the hood or doors, a layer is applied on top of it. clear varnish(see photo). This step is mandatory, because otherwise the treated area will differ from the glossy surface of the machine. After all this, the entire painted surface of the car is treated with a polish. More complex large chips are best removed either with your own hands using paint, or turn to professionals who have been doing similar work for a long time.

How to apply paint correctly?

If the chips on the car are very large and deep, in order to avoid corrosion, they only need to be painted over. This will require:

primer;

rust converter;

polish;
Sander;
sandpaper;

Before you close deep defects you need to choose the right paint. It is better to buy it in a specialized store where services are provided for computer selection colors. This is necessary because the coating on the machine burns out over time and its color no longer matches the declared factory one. If you use the same paint, then dark spots will turn out on the chips, as a result of which the car will have to be completely repainted. So, in order to properly paint over the chips, you must:

process all existing defects, as well as the space around them with sandpaper, and then with a grinding machine;

if there are cracks on the surface, treat them too, otherwise the paint will not stick;

apply a rust converter to the defects and leave it at rest for about half an hour;

thoroughly wipe the treated surface;

apply the first coat of primer, and after about 14 hours and the second;

paint over defects in a day;

leave the car at rest for about 2 days;

apply polish to the painted surface, and if it was varnished - varnish.

If the car parts have a large number of chips and cracks, then it is easier to completely repaint them. It usually takes a few days to repair defects. If there is no free time or there is no confidence in own forces It is better to entrust this matter to professionals. But for those who like to do everything with their own hands more detailed information how to remove and paint over chips, be on the presented video.

No driver is immune from chipping on the car. Even careful driving a car does not allow you to avoid the appearance of small fractures and scratches formed from trips to high speed flying towards insects and stones. Such imperfections that are hardly noticeable to the human eye lead to adverse consequences. Untimely painting of chips on the car can lead to the destruction of the body.

What kind of damage is there?

Depending on the type of damage to the paintwork, different ways fight them. Surface chips need quick and timely treatment to prevent corrosion. Delete shallow chips and scratches can be done with your own hands using special means designed to care for the appearance of the machine. IN this case defects can be tinted with a liquid agent or special pencil. The disadvantage of such an economical method is the regular work with the surface layer after the first car wash.

The appearance of deep damage leads to serious and costly repairs. When attempting to remove defects on your own, you should know how it is carried out correctly and what basic rules should be followed during work.

Do-it-yourself painting of chips

To get rid of the damage paintwork car will need patience, time, special materials and tools. Professional masters of specialized car services are advised to have with you: putty, spotter, primer, paint, sandpaper, rust converter, varnish, solvent, polishing machine with a set of circles, spatulas and means for applying paint and varnish.

Every car enthusiast should understand that tinted scratches look great for the first time and require subsequent restoration. deep scratches are subjected to complex priming, puttying and painting. The process of eliminating major damage involves stripping to the substrate, puttying and final painting of the car, which is desirable to entrust to experienced craftsmen.

Painting stages

Wash the car part to be processed.
Removing the part from the machine.
Cleaning rust from a metal surface.
Processing the place with sanding paper.
Elimination of fine dust from the part and degreasing.
Coating the surface of the car with a primer.
Applying paint to the primer.
Lacquering after drying.
Treatment of the area with a restoration polish to add shine to the coating and create a protective film.

The consequences of painting scratches on a car can be completely different. For example, too thick a composition leads to an orange peel effect, liquid paint causes streaks, and due to high humidity, the painted area sometimes becomes matte. Incorrect application of the first layer causes the formation of grease spots or small bubbles.

Painting chips on a car with your own hands allows you to save money, but at the same time requires the implementation of recommendations regarding coloring and processing agents. In this process, it is important to adhere to certain proportions when diluting paint materials. In general, restore appearance car at home is not difficult, the main thing is to follow the clear instructions of professional craftsmen.