Auto Body Paint

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What Is Auto Body Painting?

Auto body painting refers to a thorough repainting of your automobile’s exterior instead of touch-up painting, detailing or scratch repair. During this type of car paint repair, your eAutocollion.com auto body paint expert repaints your vehicle’s exterior after first repairing any damage.

When performing a touch-up, you don’t want to disturb the existing paint. But when complete auto body painting is required, your auto body pros need to thoroughly prep the part requiring new paint. The process follows several steps:

1. Dent repair. If your vehicle has suffered dents due to a collision, your auto body and paint shop technician checks for damage and fixes all dents. Common parts damaged in an accident include:
   • The frame
   • Bumper
   • Trim and plastic parts
   • Brakes
   • Tires
   • Wheel alignment
2. Using progressively finer grades of sandpaper, experienced auto body paint technicians remove as much of the existing paint as possible to get a new, clean surface. You’ll get the best results when they sand down to the bare metal and apply a new primer.
3. Once your technician sands down to the metal, he applies a primer to the vehicle’s surface. Primers form a bond between the metal and the paint used on top of it. After your eAutoCollision technician, certified by the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE), has coated the metal with primer, he sands the rimer coat to make sure it’s smooth enough to host the paint evenly.
4. Choosing, or rather creating, the correct paint color is part of this step to get the desired appearance. Your eAutoCollision technician expertly matches your existing color using a device called a spectrophotometer. Once he’s matched your existing paint, he employs the most advanced high volume, low pressure (HVLP) paint gun to apply a new coat of perfectly matched paint.