- In this video I'm going to show you how to touch up
with some touch-up paint, you know scratches and chips.
You know, to make it look better than it did.
Yeah so we came camping at Boyd Lake in Loveland, Colorado
and we spent some time.
It's beautiful here, spent some time swimming at the beach
and it kind of cooled down a little bit.
It's very hot today, but we decided to go ahead
and come in to the campground.
And I thought well it's nice and cool now,
I will go ahead and show you how to do this.
So basically what I've done is I've got some paint.
I went to a, and I'll put a link down the description
but I've put, I ordered some paint from Automotive Touch-up
and what they have here, they'll send you a kit.
They've got the cleaner, and then they've got primer,
you know, to help for corrosion protection.
Then they've got base coat and then clear coat.
Now this is not going to make it invisible.
Like if you sanded it and repainted it and cleared it
and all that, but it's going to make it less noticeable.
So if you get a used car or, you know,
maybe you're getting ready to sell it
or maybe you just bought it and want to make it look better.
You know, it's obviously going to look better
than that right there.
So this is pretty simple.
And that's why I chose to do it today while at the lake,
because it's an easy process.
So like I said, I will put a link down in the description
but it's an automotive touch-up paint
and they've got everything we need right here.
Now this is cleaner right here.
You could probably use alcohol or a wax and grease remover
or something but you do want to clean all the contaminants
like you'd would would with any other type of paint process.
You want it to be nice
and clean so that everything sticks properly.
So I've got a towel here.
I'm gonna spray some on here.
(bottle spraying)
And now I'm just going to clean that off real good.
And you'll allow that to flash off a little bit.
And again, this just cleans any silicones, waxes,
any topic contaminants off the surface.
Okay like I said in this kit,
everything you need comes in this, you've got the primer.
See, there's the clear coat.
Okay, here's primer.
And did it is sand-able if you need to sand it.
You wanna shake it up.
And it's a pen, you know, you could use it like a brush.
That's the way we used to do it.
But they've got on that come in pens now.
So I'm just going to shake this up real well.
(can clacking)
Shake it up good.
And then I'm gonna use a little bit
of this on this paper towel here
just to make sure that it's coming through alright.
Okay.
We can see that it is, and get a little on there.
And now I'm just going to go in the center
of the scratch right here and prime it.
And that's just going to help provide corrosion protection
and help protect it.
So I'm going to put a little coat right here.
Hope you can see that.
Let me try to do this where you can see it on video.
And you don't want to get way out here with it.
You just want to coat the chipped
or scratched area right there.
So anyway I've got that primed
and now I'm going to put the camera
on pause for a little bit.
I'm going to let that flash off and dry up
and then we'll come back with the base coat.
Okay, I just realized I've done that
and my audio may have not been working, may have been off,
but what I did, I just got this.
I shook it up for a minute.
It said to allow the primer to dry for 30 minutes.
And then I shook this up and put a coat of that.
And I'm going to wait about five minutes
and put one more coat just to make sure
that we got full hiding and then we'll come back
and the directions say to wait about an hour,
then we'll come back and put the clear coat which is,
provides UV protection.
Okay I let that set up for about five minutes.
I'm going to shake this again
and I'm going to do the same thing.
I'm going to make sure that this has got paint
on this tip right here.
I'm just going to push down,
this pushes down and allows the paint to come through.
So I'm going to get some paint on there
And now I want to put a second coat on.
Okay, so I've got a second coat.
It looks like it's filled good now.
You did notice I got it on a little bit heavy
and I just wiped the excess off,
and now I'm gonna allow that,
directions said to allow that dry for an hour.
And I want to come back and put some clear coat on.
So I'll be back in just a, well about an hour.
Okay, so directions said to let that set for an hour
which we have done, and now I'm going to get my clear coat
and I've already shaking it up some
but it says to shake it up for one minute.
So I'm going to get this shaken up
and then we're going to apply a coat of this.
Now what the clear coat is for is,
is you've got your, your primer,
which provides the corrosion protection,
you know to keep it from rusting more.
And then you've got the base coat,
which is the same color, that's the pigment,
the color of the truck
which you can already see that that is a lot less noticeable
than it was.
Now what the clear coat does is that provides
the UV protection, you know, from the sun.
If you didn't have the UV protection, that would just,
you know the UV would make that fade real fast
and you'd be able to tell a big difference.
So this clear coat is going to help protect the base coat.
Okay, so we're going to shake this up
and now we're going to do that same thing
is we're going to get this felt pen.
We're going to press down on here and you can see the clear
came out really fast on that.
So we've got plenty of clear on this pen now,
and now we're just going to,
whoa, shot out of there.
Let me.
Okay, so I put a coat of this clear coat on
and I waited 15 minutes.
I'm going to put one more coat and I'm going to prime this
and get it ready to put another coat on.
And it's getting a little bit dark here.
Hope you can still see it well, and,
and again like I mentioned,
this is just to make it look better,
to protect it from you know rusting
and doing things like that.
So for a little added protection
and I've got this light that I'm shining on it just in case.
You know, it is a little dark.
I'm gonna take it off for now so it doesn't mess us up,
but I've got some clear on this pen.
I'm putting a second coat on.
And again, this is just for UV protection
to help protect it.
Okay, so that's two coats and I'm going to put this light
on there so you can see it maybe a little bit better.
But obviously you can still see that.
And, you know, I knew that was going to happen to begin with
but we, you know if you look at it, you know,
from a distance,
you know these are going to be a lot less obvious.
So for one it's the same color, you know,
you get the color correction,
and you've got the primer for corrosion protection.
You got the clear coat for UV protection.
So it looks a lot better than it did.
If this is something that you'd be interested in
just something to touch it up.
Maybe you just bought a car and want to make it look better
or you're getting ready to sell one and want to,
you know make it look cleaner,
you know, go to Automotive Touch-up.
They've got this.
They've also got spray cans that you can use too,
you can order by color, check out the website.
They've got a lot of products that you may be interested in.
Now, one step that you could do
that I'm not going to do in this video
'cause obviously I've got more things
to worry about later on.
I've got this bullet hole right here,
you know as I parked it,
parked at my apartments one night
and somehow it got a random bullet hole in it.
You know, the cops showed at my door door the next day
and let me know that there was some crossfire there
and my truck was in the way.
So there were, you know, three or four other cars
that was hit as well.
So I'll be fixing that.
And of course that'd be repaired in that same time.
But what you'd want to do at a deal
like this is you want to go through, you know, your,
your entire vehicle.
You know, you want to prep 'em,
then you'd want to put your primer.
And then you wanna put your base coat,
you know on all the different spots at the same time
and then clear coat all at one time.
So that's kind of the steps to take.
Just showing you one.
You could go a step further and you could sand that
a little bit with some 1500, 2000 grit,
and then buff that out to make it even less noticeable.
But for what I'm wanting for right now,
just the protection, that is going to work fine.
And I hope you enjoyed this video.
If you did be sure and give me a thumbs up,
give me a like, thanks for watching.
Take care.
And we'll see you in the next video.
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