Article suggestions
Tips on how to carefully remove the paint around the edges of your repair, without removing the paint in the scratch or chip.
Special considerations before priming aluminum or steel
Removing fresh touch up paint? Here are some options.
There are a few reasons why an aerosol spray can might ruin your finish with paint splatter. Here's how to avoid that splatter.
Sometimes, your chip or scratch is so small, that no matter how hard you try, the paint and clear coat is too thick, and you end up removing it all when you try to level it. Here are a few tricks to help in this use case.
Use a flashlight to look for bare metal or plastic in the scratch
How to get a smoother finish on brush touch ups
Application technique is usually the culprit in cases of low gloss. Here's how to fix it.
Verify the color match before applying paint to the vehicle
How to Apply a Control (or Top or Drop) Coat for L2, Metallic, and Pearl Colors
Paint that doesn't fully cure is usually due to one or more of these 3 things.
The correct order to apply base and mid coats, and how to polish excess away for each layer.
Too much pressure with the brush, and the solvents in the clear coat or mid coat can remove the new base coat
Here are some tips for painting when humidity is high
The orange peel effect is an uneven finish that can happen due to several factors
Why this happens, and how to fix it
An airbrush requires a few extra steps to get good results
We test out some touch up hacks from customers
Rough rules of thumb for how many cans of primer, paint, and clear coat you need
Rough rules of thumb for how many cans of primer, paint, and clear coat you need
Rough rules of thumb for how many cans of primer, paint, and clear coat you need
Rough rules of thumb for how many cans of primer, paint, and clear coat you need
Fold over one edge of the masking tape to avoid a hard tape line