How to Color Sand a Car for Painting

Part of the Video Series How to Custom Paint a Car

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Color sand a car when giving it a custom paint job to gently smooth out the paint job; learn how from our expert custom-car mechanic in this free auto-restoration video.

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How to Color Sand a Car for Painting
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. Now Tony's getting ready to do the color sanding. So he gets everything wet. Color sanding is to remove any dirt in the paint, and to remove any texture. We want a glass finish when we're done, so he wants to sand everything perfectly flat. So the paint comes out of the booth shiny, so now we're going to sand it and make it dull. So after he's sanded some of it, you get kind of a hazy finish to it. You can see on the back side of this frame that it's hazy. Now he's going to wet it down and sand it some more. He's using 1000 grit sandpaper by hand; he's just going to remove the dirt at this point. So he's going to go through, and with your hand you can feel any dirt that breaks off. He'll feel it roll under the sandpaper that's why he does this with his bare hands. So he doesn't grind any dirt into the fresh paint. It's like washing, but you're knocking the chunks of dirt out of the paint.

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Expert: Doug got his start in fixing, customizing, racing, selling, and restoring when very young. By sixth grade Doug had bought non-running motorcycles and fixed them. Read More