Painting the car at home. Basic rules

Basic rules and advice. Painting a car at home

Sooner or later, but most motorists have a need to update the paint and varnish coating of the car. Sometimes the problem is solved by abrasive polishing, but there are times that a complete or partial repainting of the car is required. The cost of painting in specialized services is quite high, which is why many owners of used cars decide on painting the car at home. However, it is necessary to purchase an appropriate tool for painting the car.

So, painting the car at home requires at least a week of persistent responsible work, confidence in their abilities and the fulfillment of all technological stages.

It is necessary to carefully clean and wash the car, removing all mud, grease and bitumen stains from the surface of the body with the help of special children. The cheapest means is white spirit, but, in any case, do not use gasoline or thinner, otherwise painting the car at home will lead to disastrous consequences.

After cleaning the body, remove all the elements that do not require painting, lighting equipment, etc. from it. Next, the car must be carefully inspected for chips and deep scratches. Defective places should be marked and proceeded to their cleaning with sandpaper (No. 60-100). It is necessary to clean up the metal, but try to make the transition from the defective area not intact as noticeable as possible. It is easy to check by stroking and feeling the area to be cleaned. The hand is the most accurate and sensitive device.

After carrying out the work, it is necessary to wipe the defective spots with white spirit, clean the body of the dust and allow it to dry out. The next stage will be shpatlevanie problem areas. For this, a synthetic polyester synthetic filler is used, preferably a finishing one. Stir the putty with the hardener for 40 seconds, then quickly, but without fuss zashpatlevate defective area, making a cross-movement spatula. Do not forget, putty becomes useless after 4-6 minutes after kneading.

Putty places are allowed to dry at a temperature of 20 degrees 35-50 minutes, after which they are carefully ground with fine-grained sandpaper. The surfaces to be grinded should eventually become the same as the non-machined areas of the body. The geometry of the machine is corrected if necessary. Upon completion of work, the cleaned areas are wiped with white spirit, dried and covered with a primer of light gray color with a visit to the untouched areas of the body. It will help to see the flaws in the work that need to be corrected.

Finally, we proceed to the direct painting of the body. Carefully clean the surface of the car from dust, we seal with paint tape and paper all the places that can not be painted. Teach that the margin between the painted and unpainted parts will be about 0.02 mm.

We zaskushiruem all the surface of the car to be painted with sandpaper number 1200 before the appearance of haze. We control the cleanliness of the body, wipe it with a rag with white spirit and let it dry out.

The room in which the painting will be done should be well washed and insulated from dust and other dirt. The required working area is at least two meters along the perimeter of the car.

As a paint it is better to use auto enamel with drying without baking. Stir the paint in accordance with the instructions and strain it through a special funnel, fill it in the gun tank for painting with a nozzle number 1.4. The feed pressure is 2.5 - 3.0 Atm. The technique of painting the car is simple. Coloring starts from the roof at a distance of 15-25 cm from the body. The color and depth of the paint will only appear after the second coat of color. The time for complete drying of the body is about 36 hours at a temperature of 20 degrees.

As we see, painting the car at home is quite a laborious and responsible process, but strict adherence to the rules will give a decent result.