Quick Picks: How to Spray a Single Stage Car Paint
 
Sign In Sign Up — It's Free!

How to Spray a Single Stage Car Paint

Viewing videos requires the latest version of Adobe's Flash Player.
Get the latest Flash player.
Showing 1-5

Part of the video series: How to Custom Paint a Car

left_arrow right_arrow
Add to My Playlist What is a playlist?

Summary: Spray a single stage paint, starting with the door jambs and then moving to the outside, when giving a car a custom paint job; learn how from our expert custom-car mechanic in this free auto-restoration video.

Views: 3,013 | Tags: repair, maintenance, painting, paint, body, auto, car, custom, cars, job, car maintenance

Get the latest Flash player.
Email Video Add to Favorites
About the Expert

Doug Jenkins Doug, of “Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods”, not only servers the entire nation, but even customers outside the U.S have found the shop's services indispensable. ... read more

Hide Comments

Conversations About This Video

  • Comments
    (0 comments)
  • Questions & Answers
    (0 questions) (0 answers)
Be the first to comment on this video.
Have a question about this video topic? Ask our community members and let them share their knowledge with you!
Ask A Question

Video Transcript

How to Spray a Single Stage Car Paint

Hi, I'm Doug. I work with 20 great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods, and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. Let's paint! People want to know what it costs to paint a car. And I say it doesn't cost that much to paint a car at all, it's getting it ready that's expensive. So the actual shooting of a car only takes a couple of days, but it's all this prep time, all this masking, getting everything square. Tony's going to start with the jams on this, then he'll button it up and shoot the outside of the car. It looks like he's moving real slow, but he's just moving very carefully. You want to go as fast as you can when you're painting so you'll always have a wet edge. So he's painted the jam and the inside of the door he's got it shut and he's going to go down the side of the car with the paint as fast as he can. It's a minimum 2 coats of paint, sometimes we do three, and the first coat is the thinnest. When you're on that nice slick sealer or base coat, you can see there is almost a shine to the base coat. The paint wants to run. The base coat dries real fast, and if you put the first coat of paint on real heavy it will run, so he's actually putting on a fairly light coat the first one.

Watch these related videos

General Automotive Ads

Community Members who...

  • Favorited this Video
  • Rated This Video
Read these related articles
See more articles

Top Tags

accessories all terrain vehicles all-terrain-vehicle alternator alternators auto automobile body box brake brakes caliper car car maintenance car repair cars chevy custom cv drive engine engines ford four-wheeler instructions jim job joint keys lock locked locksmith maintenance offroad off-road paint painting parts Polaris rack repair repairford shaft slim sport three-wheeler tires trailer upgrade vehicle
Check out what people are watching now
left_arrow right_arrow