A few words before you start reading the rest of the entry and repainting your car: park your car in a well-lit place, but not under direct sunlight. This would allow you to cover your entire vehicle with paint while letting it dry completely. And with that said, on to actually painting your vehicle.
Step One: Start off with an excellent primer. Spray your vehicle’s entire exterior with primer to make sure that the new paint you’re going to apply would adhere to your vehicle completely.
Step Two: Wait for the primer to dry.
Step Three: Even out the finish by sanding the primer. When sanding your vehicle, don’t just use regular sand paper. You can achieve the smoothest and the finest results if you use a sanding block instead. If you’re going to be using sand paper, use the coarse ones to even out the high spots without inflicting damage on the low areas.
Step Four: Apply a second coat of primer. I know, it can get very confusing. You just basically sanded your previous primer and yet here you are applying more primer, right? Well, a second coat of primer can help your new paint adhere to your vehicle’s exterior better.
Step Five: Using a 600-grain sand paper, smooth out the uneven spots. Smooth everything out until you have the perfect finish.
Step 6: Remove the masking on the areas you covered before. While you are going to have to re-mask or re-cover these areas, you’ll need to get rid of any traces of dust that you can’t see on your vehicle’s finish. If you don’t do this step, you’re going to end up with bumps on your paint job.
Step 7: Remask these areas. This time, wipe off all the remaining debris or traces of sanding on your vehicle.
Step 8: Spray on a basecoat of paint. In painting your car, you’re not going to be using the traditional paint brush. Use the spray gun and spray methodically and perpendicularly from the area that you’re shooting. Make sure you hold your spray gun approximately 10 to
Step 9: Spray another coat (the top coat). This next coat ought to bring out the right color for your vehicle.
Step 10: Lastly, let your vehicle dry. Resist the urge to keep on touching your car’s paint to find out if it’s dry. If you must, let your car dry for a day or two, just to be sure that the paint won’t stick once you lean on your vehicle the next day. If your car paint happens to have instructions on them, then all the better for you. This way you won’t have to keep guessing how long it will take for your vehicle’s paint to dry.
