How To Paint Automotive Paint With A Roller

Introduction

Employ this guide to help you re-paint parts of your car, or your entire machine. This guide covers arguably the hardest method — rolling on the paint with a roller. You can also apply cans of spray paint ("rattle canning" the car), but the best results will come from an air-powered sprayer — but also at the highest cost.

Generally speaking, a machine's paint chore consists of a base layer (the colorful function), and a articulate coat layer on top of the base of operations. If you were to spray paint the with an air-powered sprayer, that would be the method to pursue. Even so, since this guide shows how to roll on the pigment, we'll be using a glossy Rustoleum Enamel paint that volition serve every bit both base and clear coat. You lot'll have to coil on several thin coats of paint, simply information technology will still technically be a "single glaze" paint job.

Always work in a well ventilated area and recall to use proper condom gear when prepping the car for pigment and when painting, specially respiratory safety gear. This is leap to be a long and involved project, and so piece of work slowly and carefully to have the all-time possible pigment job possible. Also accept a couple of pictures of the car earlier starting the job, and so you can remember how terrible everything looked like prior to your new paint job :)

Use the proper safety gear when sanding. Full length clothing, a painter's mask and eye protection should be worn to prevent irritation or injury.

Use the proper safety gear when sanding. Full length clothing, a painter's mask and middle protection should be worn to prevent irritation or injury.
Remove all the headlights and tail lights so that the paint matches on the edges of the body. Cover any holes that you don't want to go dusty and painted.

Use a power sander with a low-grit sand paper to strip the old paint off the surface of your vehicle. Use a sanding block or just the sand paper to reach small or hard-to-get places.

Utilise a power sander with a depression-grit sand paper to strip the old paint off the surface of your vehicle. Use a sanding block or just the sand paper to attain small or difficult-to-get places.
Make the start laissez passer with at least 100 grit, possibly even as low as 40 dust sandpaper. Coarser grits will remove the paint efficiently, simply leave a very crude finish.
Make a 2nd pass with finer sandpaper (200 dust), to reduce the scratches and smoothen out the trunk.
Repeat the process with 400, 800, and 1500 dust sandpaper to brand the motorcar'southward surface super-smooth. Spend a good corporeality of time with each grit, as it will be much harder to remove the deep scratches down the line.
Wipe off the sanding dust occasionally to assist speed the sanding process.

Once you accept stripped the paint off all the parts that y'all wish to paint, rinse them with h2o and wipe them down with a clean lint-free cloth and then the paint will stick.
Embrace all parts of the car that you don't want to be painted using masking tape and/or double sided tape with driblet cloth. This includes lights, windows, mirrors, grills, tires, the ground/any close-by surfaces, etc.

Brand a mixture of 50% Rustoleum paint, and 50% mineral spirits. The pigment will be very, very thin.
If you lot over-apply the paint, it will run downward the sides! Over-applying the paint will negate all the hard work you put into prepping the machine for painting. If it happens, use a rag doused with pure mineral spirits to wipe off the runs.
Apply several thin coats of paint onto the auto. Wait approximately 30 minutes between each glaze to allow the paint to partially dry.
Y'all will probably take to utilise at to the lowest degree five thin coats of paint before the body (especially the Bondo areas) are no longer visible. Don't rush, and don't over-apply the paint.

After the paint has fully dried, inspect it for cracks, runny spots, or any imperfections.
Smooth out any imperfections by wet sanding with water and 1500 grit sand paper.

Decision

To reassemble your device, follow these instructions in opposite order.