How to Repair Car Paint Damage

Learn how to repair car paint damage and how to repair paint chipping damage on your car in this free auto-restoration video series from our expert custom-car mechanic.

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Summary: Every car gets paint chip damage at some point. What do you do when it happens? You can take your car to the auto body shop to get painted, or you can fix the paint damage and paint your car yourself. Painting a car is not easy, but it is certainly not impossible to learn how, especially if you have an expert show you how to repair car paint damage. If you would like to learn how to repair car paint damage on your own car, you can learn for free from our experts.

In this free how-to video series, learn how to repair car paint damage from Doug Jenkins and his crew of mechanics and car restoration experts. They will teach you all the steps you need to know to repair paint damage such as paint chips. They will demonstrate how to sand out car paint damage, how to mix body filler, how to apply body filler to paint chips, how to scuff old clear coat to apply new clear coat, how to apply clear coat to a car, how to match touch up paint to original paint, how to clean your car before painting, how to spray the base coat of car paint, how to spray metal flake paint on a car, how to mix clear coat, and finally, how to buff a new paint job.

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Doug got his start in fixing, customizing, racing, selling, and restoring autos when he was young. Real young. His grandpa put two 6x8 garden sheds in the backyard of the apartment when Doug was in 4th grade and he went to work fixing bicycles for anyone who would pay. By sixth grade Doug had bought non-running motorcycles and fixed, and wrecked them. Doug bought his first car (not a working car) by 14. He fixed and sold it for a profit. He had bought and fixed 20 more by the time he graduated from high school, and he has done many more to pay his and his wife’s way through college. Two seasons on commercial fishing boats, a summer in the Prudhoe Bay oilfields of Alaska, and two summers farming filled up some time, too. After college he moved back to his home state of Alaska, and had a ball. For the first 6 years he operated a wood shop, building cabinets and furniture in the winter, log and frame homes during the summer. The next good activity was logging. Doug and a couple of buddies had a logging and sawmill operation for local and export use.

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