suck on my electrons diesel you crashed your car Oh getting a knickers scratch
in your car's paint is any car owners worst nightmare and would you get a
Tesla Model 3 and you don't get paint protection you're neva tably going to
see a nick or scratch in the paint so what do you do about it well there are
third-party options out there for paint repair but luckily Tesla also makes
their own paint repair kit now and in this color specifically the midnight
silver metallic this color has been elusive in the Tesla community to get a
paint repair kit for from Tesla there are rumors that they were having issues
with the shelf life of the paint etc so it's been a color that's been hard to
get from Tesla directly but now they do sell it in a paint repair kit and that's
what we're going to be trying out today to see if we can get this scratch out of
the model 3 now the first thing that we're going to want to do with this
paint repair kit is to make sure that the four-letter paint code on the back
here matches the car I've already gone and opened the driver's side door to
make sure that it does in fact match so we are good to go and let's go ahead and
open this thing nice packaging here we'll just slips out alright and this is
the Tesla paint repair kit so we get repair kit instructions there's also a
video from Tesla that they put out on how to repair the paint but if you're
watching this you may still want to watch that but we're going to be kind of
detailed here to go through each step of how to actually do this so nice that
they give you instructions you get a microfiber cloth here you're going to
use this to wipe off the scratch and clean it at the start and then you'll
also use this again at the end of the process next we get the paint itself oh
this just flips out here oh that's kind of nice you get the paint itself you get
the blending solution and then you get a rubber screwed
a rubber squeegee so the other stuff you need they actually give you black gloves
which is really nice and then this is the clock here that you will use with
the blending solution so just keep that handy we got the paint microfiber cloth
and then lastly the blending solution alright and we are ready to go all right
the next thing we're going to do is make sure that our paint and bloody solutions
make sure that they are shaking up properly so here's the paint solution
here I'm just gonna make sure all right next we've got the blending solution now
that we've got the blending solution in the paint shaken up next step the Tesla
says to do is make sure this area is clear now we just washed this car so
this car is definitely good to go but just use a microfiber cloth to wipe all
that away also do you notice that you won't have to open this up so I'm
actually gonna get I have another latex glove that I brought just in case I'm
gonna go ahead and put that on as well so I missed a couple things when I
opened it I was looking I was like once we got to the Pinot's like how the heck
are we gonna get it out here so Tesla does give you it wasn't in this little
white pouch which I just thought was part of the packaging actually includes
the brush right here so we can just apply the paint there and then we'll
just wipe it over the neck with the squeegee they give you the squeegee to
make sure it's really flat although the person in their video on their website
didn't do that but I'm gonna go ahead and follow the directions Tesla actually
gives you in the kit here midnight silver metallic color really likes so
I'll make sure we've got that alright great so I've got my paint here got my
paintbrush what I do is I'm just going to take it take a little bit of this
paint here make sure I don't drip and then I apply this paint right
- right next to the scratch oh and this dripped a little bit here so you can see
that we definitely don't want that so I probably use a little too much paint
there but we're gonna go ahead and use the squeegee and apply that paint evenly
over the scratch and alright that looks pretty even probably only want to do
that a couple of times alright so I've already learned a couple
things by doing this one you don't need even the little drop of paint I had was
more than what I needed there but what we're gonna do is we're just gonna let
that dry for a little bit and then we'll use the blending solution just go over a
bit further than any excess paint alright so you know it doesn't exactly
say how to do the blending solution I'm just guessing you put a little bit on
your cloth here and then kind of wipe around so this is programs most elegant
way to do this but again using gloves so
basically what Tessa says is just to make sure that the cloth stays damp in
the area that you're blending so this is definitely damp we're just gonna rub
that over and should make that paint go away I hope because I put it on way too
much of an area here and again I'm not doing a lot of pressure here oh good
okay yeah I'm not using any hardly any pressure at all and it is getting the
excess paint away from the areas of the car that did not need extra paint which
is great now again if you start feeling that this cloth is getting a little bit
dry do that is wetting solution put a little bit more on there just from what
the directions in Tesla their video said you want to make sure that this is just
keep this damp
again we're not scrubbing your just lightly moving it over and what they
said is they're just you letting the chemicals do their do their work you
don't wanna get up the part of the paint that you know you're actually in down in
the chip so I don't think I've done just good alright alright next step that we
want to do the Tesla says after we do the solution is to just wipe it off with
microfiber so and polish and kind of wipe all that so first impression here I
can't quite tell on the camera how it looks you can still see it and in person
you can still see it as well this is a larger divot so what I'm going to do is
I'm going to do this one or two more times to try to layer the paint so it's
flush with the body we'll see how good I can get it here and then I'll come back
and check in with you guys to show you what the finished product looks like
alright so the paint chip has been repaired it's right there you can still
see it kind of the only issue I've run into is there's still a little bit of
excess paint it looks like around the chip but the issue that I ran into is
trying to actually get that off is very easy to get some of that paint remover
in the actual chip and then it just removes all the work you've just done
getting it up until this point so I'm gonna wait let this dry and I may put
another layer over it at some point just to make it a little more flush with the
paint but overall it doesn't look terrible if I was walking past it I
wouldn't really notice it so overall a couple of things I learned going through
this process one get yourself another pair of gloves right you're gonna want
both of your hands with gloves for this process to be very careful not to get
the paint remover actually in the chip itself that's set me back a couple of
times and just added to frustration through this process three make sure you
have a paper towel or something to put all of these materials so you don't
get paint on your car somewhere else I didn't do that but I could totally see
someone doing that every time they open up the cap from where the paint is
stored other than that those are some lessons learned oh also where is it also
you can use this thing to get down and scrub away some of the paint right next
to the chip I would not recommend soaking this in the solution because
this little ball on the end here it will actually soak up more of the solution
than you want and then when you press it in near the chip it's actually going to
press that solution into the chip and then cause the paint to discolor because
it had a chemical reaction and it's ready to be wiped away so I would use
this to scrub away the paint but don't actually get this into the solution
bottle again the Tesla directions were not really clear on what this was for
but I'm pretty sure it's just to kind of detail around the chip other than that
the process was pretty smooth and the paint itself does look like it's a
pretty good match overall I would recommend this but just know it's gonna
be more work than you may think going into it especially if you're more detail
obsessed like me where I want it to be almost near perfect even though I know
going in it's not actually going to be anywhere near that but definitely less
noticeable than it was before I'll probably put another layer of paint
across it just to kind of clean up that look there other than that though this
process has been pretty straightforward so thanks for watching if you'd like to
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watching I'm Josh Teder for 6 Months Later.