Hey guys Chrisfix here today
I'm going to show you how to safely remove paint transfer from your car's paint just a little backstory
I was parked all the way in the back of a parking lot... Like all the way in the back away from any cars there
Is literally nobody around me
So there's no chance anyone would open their door and hit my car or back up into it or something like that and well after
A nice dinner [I] come out to see my car like this it just stinks to know that you could do all you can to
Take care of your car, and somebody will still manage to damage you and the worst part for me
Is that they don't even have the respect to own up to their mistake listen everybody makes mistakes?
Just put a note on my car saying "Hey, I messed up. Here's my number
Let's work something out," but instead. They just took off anyhow now that that's out of my system.
Don't let this ruin your day if this happens to you because I'm going to show you how to safely remove paint transfer without damaging
your own car's paint
Underneath and after you're done following this your paint is going to look good as new to remove paint transfer the first step is to
Understand what paint transfer actually is and it is exactly how it sounds in this case a white car hit my car and [their] white
Paint Transferred onto my car's paint now the paint on your car has three main layers
The first coat is a primer that goes over the bare metal of the car
The second coat is the base coat which is the paint that gives your car its color and the third coat we have a clear
coat
Which protects the paint and gives it its glossy shine this is the thickest paint layer and the final layer really isn't a paint layer
But I wanted to include it [because] it's important, and it's a protection [layer] called the wax layer which helps fill in small imperfections
It also helps protect against light scratches and watermarks
most of the time paint transfer will be
Embedded into the clear coat since clear coat is designed to protect the base coat, and that's what I'm hoping for here
But we won't know until we remove the paint transfer sometimes the damage is Deeper now
There are many techniques for [removing] paint transfer
But I'm going to show you how to use products that you could easily find at home
So if the paint transfer is very minor
And isn't bad at all you could use some rubbing compound then scratch remover and then buff it with a microfiber towel
[and] that should remove any light paint transfer, but since we have a pretty thick layer [of] paint transfer
We're going to use a different strategy [the] first thing we're going to want to do is we're going to want to Soften the paint
Transfer and to soften the paint transfer, we're going to use
WD-40 now WD-40 has about 50%
Mineral spirits in it which is going to Soften the paint
Slightly but not enough to cause damage to the rest of the clear coat on the corvette and then we're going to be using one
[of] these magic erasers, which is a very fine spongy abrasive
And this is going to skim over the clear coat but grab on to our damage
So it's perfect to remove paint transfer after we remove the paint transfer
We're just going to use [some] soapy water a microfiber towel wipe [down] the whole area to remove the WD-40 and any
Contaminants if you're a perfectionist like myself you could also use clay bar
But that's optional [you] don't have to use it and then finally you want to add a protective layer of wax on the area that
You just worked on and that's all there is to it and just in case [if] the damage is deeper than we expect
I do have some touch-up paint to figure out what color touch-up
Paint your car needs typically if you look in the door jamb over here there'll be a sticker or if it's not over there
It'll be right over here and on this sticker
It'll give you a paint code so you can match up the correct color paint hopefully we won't even need touch-up paint
but we won't know until we begin so let's get started first you want to apply the
WD-40 only in the area of the paint transfer try not to get it on the rest of your car's paint the
WD-40 is going to soften that paint transfer as well as lubricate the surrounding paint now that that's done
Soak the Magic eraser in Warm water
and you want to carefully start scrubbing the paint transfer the Magic eraser is just an abrasive Foam which is going to start removing the
Paint Transfer
but if you press too hard
You could start removing your own clear coat which isn't good so make sure you focus the scrubbing on the paint transfer only notice
I'm following the grain of the damage as I scrub so the damage was horizontal
I'm scrubbing horizontal, and this is really going to help that abrasive foam pull that paint transfer up
I'm going to use another application at
WD-40 and this is going to lubricate the surface some more as well as [soften] the rest of this paint transfer and with just a
little [bit] more scrubbing wipe it down with our cloth and
Take a look at that. I can't even see where the damage was which is such a relief
But we aren't done yet
now one thing you want to pay close attention to with this abrasive foam is when you're using this and you're
Rubbing off that paint transfer you might see the color of the paint transfer on here
Which is okay what you don't want to see is you don't want to see the color of your car on this phone that means?
That you're digging through that clear coat and digging into the base coat with this abrasive foam
so if you see that focus the foam
Specifically on the paint trance and don't press as hard you don't want to dig into your clear coat [alright]
So remember where your damage was it was right around here
And we have a few quick things left that we need to do the first thing
We have to do is remove the wD-40 from our paint. So get some soapy water and wipe it down
And I know it's kind of hard to see but [you] might have caught a glimpse of some of this damage right here [this] wasn't
from the paint transfer
This is from like a rock chip or something that was on there in the past, and that's been touched up already
So I'm not going to touch it now we want to apply a protective layer of wax since it was removed
But if you really want to go the extra mile before you add the wax get some clay bar
Spray it down with some detailer and just clay bar the surface by sliding the clay bar across the lubricated surface
And that's going to pick up any contamination that there might [have] been in this paint. [we'll] wipe that down and
This surface is looking awesome
Then all you have to do is wax on
Wait a couple of minutes
Wax off and we are done, so we went from this to this
What a relief now
That's how you remove paint transfer from your car and the top tip for this video is
invest in one of these [dash] cameras they hang right next to your rear [view] mirror and then you capture everything on this and
If somebody bumps your car this goes off and saves the footage I could have grabbed that guy's license plate
Justice could have been served so don't be like me don't wait
It's a good investment, [and] I'll give you a lot [of] peace [of] mind
[I'll] run it in both my vette and I use one in my truck [and]
[trust] me when I say these things are worth every penny and with that hopefully this video was helpful
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