How to Repair a DEEP SCRATCH in Car Paint (DIY)

1. Starts at 8:00

2. So what will happen to that paint area when we do car wash next time? Do that touch up paint goes away with car wash?

3. How long should you wait before washing your car afterwards?

4. I can’t see the scratch anymore 😅

5. The explanations are step by step, well thought out, backed up by clear visuals. Thank you so much Chris for the awesome conent you produce! You're so helpful to so many of us!

6. for golf 6 tsi ?

7. So it's going to take $18 but all those 5 kinds of greet sand paper will cost you over another $20 over + a shipping fee from Jeff bozos AMZN.

8. If you're going to do a DIY video, at least pick a difficult paint color. White is literally the easiest color you could do. I can't compliment you on the video since… I have no freaking clue how good the scratch looks afterwards.

9. Awesome 🙌

10. Now let’s do this video again but with a metallic silver 😢

11. Magic !!! Thank you

12. Thx great video, Chris!!! QUESTION. At 19'17" you start off with a dry sand. But then you start adding soapy water. Is that the order… first dry and then soapy water? Does it matter?

13. Flat white. Very challenging. Also, if the base coat is level with surrounding before adding clear, then adding the clear and sanding is just going to take you back to base coat.
    Better to add clear to base and then fill the scratch

14. Your style is amazing your Technique is fascinating

15. Excellent video. Thank you.

16. 21:11 The adjacent areas on either side of the void are clearly not fixed

17. If the paint step is complete, how do you know where the clear coat goes?

18. Slick use of the video illustrations.

19. T3U color code not available from the source linked. Suggestions? I would prefer to get the "all-in-one" paint pen which includes the abrasive tip.

20. Outstanding. 100% applicable. I was pressure washing and little by little the frame (which at the time was far away from the car) wiggled its way from vibrations into the door of my car and made its way along the entire door. Pretty deep scratch.

21. This fucked up my truck. This doesn't work on black the sandpaper left white scratches

22. Thanks a lot for this Amazing vidéo..my question IS:
    IS it a problèm if i don't have clear coat? But only thé original paint?
    Thanks 🙏

23. why do you yankees always talk so much unnecessary nonsense this whole video was literally 75% bullshit and 25% what i wanted to see

24. Great detailed tutorial!

25. How do we tackle this if there is no paint option with primer mixed in? Do we just add an extra step before using the paint or do we sand in between primer and paint?

26. Hey Chris, I followed all of this and im at the polishing stage, but around the scratches where I sanded it still looks really hazy and matted, not at all glossy and doesn't blend in very well. Do I just need to polish some more or is it possible I sanded too much?

27. Thanks, good vid! Now we just need to get you to do 2 or 3 vids per month👍

    Edit: Just saw your comment where you said it took 2 weeks to film this video. So, let’s just shoot for 1 video per month. Who needs a personal life.

28. Chrisfix, Could u use this same method to fix some rockchips 🤔. Nice video by the way

29. very good work. ❤❤❤

30. Tried this on my car, found my cars paint colour code and bought the correct colour pen but the paint isn’t the same and now my car just looks worse with 2 lines of different colour paint. My car just looks worse now I shouldn’t have done this. Good tutorial just didn’t work out the same for me :/

31. I started this process and it was going great up through the painting step, but after giving it more than enough time to dry and sanding it down to be level with the surrounding paint, the touchup paint lost some of its color, started to look silvery instead of blue in some spots. Did I do something wrong? Please help!

32. Isn't it better to start with a body filler? Or it's neccessary just in case the scratch goes all the way to metal?

33. This was an amazing f***ing video, I loved everthing about it. Thanks

34. Help! After applying the paint, I sanded outside the paint area and scuffed some clear coat and I can't add clear coat on top of scuffed surface. Does anyone have ideas?

35. can someone explain why need soap water when sanding?

36. yung na huli na the biggest drug bust nasaan na??? may nakasuhan bah??? san na yung driver? nakasuhan bah?? Sana matalakay nyo manong ED.

37. Hi, i need help. It dont work😭

38. Don't do this. Doesn't work . Just wind up with big mess of scratches and mismatched paint. Bad idea.

39. It looks good but my results were amateur. Experience makes all the difference.

40. Amazing instructions. I liked the video and i love all your videos bro! But I gotta say I just tried this on a deep scratch on my dark metallic grey color crv, and it did not come out the way I wanted to 🙁 I followed everything step by step but i can still see the paint strokes from when i first applied it. I sanded it down exactly like in this minus the 800 grit, I used 1000 because thats all i could find, but everything else was the same. And after I wet sanded down with the 3000 and 5000 before the polish I seemed to have etched away some more of the original paint 🙁 This was my first time trying this kind of work so i can admit i probably sucked at the repair, but I tried my best to be meticulous with it. I ended up just going through to the end with the polish and called it a day lol. Any tips for fixing scratches on a dark color car would be great, or a video if possible?

41. Wow that is some nice job. Now please do it on a black car please!

42. "two thin coats" is universal, it seems.

43. I love how you summarize the video at the start and continued with deeper explanations. It helps once you’ve understood the concept but want to follow the steps.

44. I love u

45. No compound needed here?

46. I have a few small spots, less than the size of a dime on my hood. Do I really need to sand the clear coat on the whole hood? I drive a Silverado, its a lot of sanding for two very small spots.

47. Youre a life saver Chris! Cant thank you enough. My wife took my brand new truck ( Ram Rebel) and wrecked the front driver edge while parking.
    Now i know how to fix the scratches but the bumper on a rebel has a powder coated/ textured finish. How do i fix that? Couldnt find anything on youtube. Please help, thank you 🙏

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