How to easily repair the wounds on the body with a stepping stone with a touch pen [Carmente that anyone can do]

■ Let's deal with touch -up paint (touch pen) without leaving stepping stone injuries.

When running on the highway, there are many people who have found a truck in front, and if you are running behind for a while, you will get a steep stone, and you have a small scratch on the body ... (crying).it might be.If you don't want to ask for a professional sheet metal painting, but you don't want to leave it as it is, here are some maintenance using touch -up paint.

Wratches that have rubbed the car and the wounds due to stepping stones are often different.Whether the wound is on the paint of the body or whether the paint has been removed in the first place, the solution varies.

Use a partial repairs touch -up paint when a hard and sharp thing hits the painted surface of the body, such as a stepping stone injury.The wound on the painted surface is similar to dirt, so it will fall off if you polish it with an abrasive such as a compound, but even if you apply a compound on the stepping stone injury, the paint is removed in the first place.So the situation will not improve.For peeled paint, there is a need to recover the paint.

Touch -up paint is a set of paint and small brushes in packages of oil -based pen as thick and size.It is sold at car supplies stores and car dealers as items that can be easily repaired.

The color of the car, for example, is white in a bite, but there are various colors of white.For each manufacturer, the body color is assigned to the "color number", and it is important to purchase a touch pen with the same color number as a private car because the color is identified.The color number is listed on the body as a model display plate or a sticker, and is often displayed in the engine room, around the driver's seat door, and around the passenger seat door.There is also a page where you can search for color numbers by putting a vehicle model and body color name on the Internet.

After purchasing a touch -up paint that suits your car, let's use it immediately.

First, degrease the part that has been injured by stepping stone with alcohol etc. to clean it.Remove dirt and dust to make it easier to put paint.

When the part of the wound is clean, use the touch pen at once.Attach a little paint to the tip of the attached brush and place the paint in the scratched area.Let's install it with the image of hanging the paint instead of painting it with a brush.

Once the paint is attached, dry it a little and then apply it to several times.It is better to layer thin and thinly layers without trying to fill the dent that is missing and missing the body paint.

Repeated and dried, and the first step work is completed when the missing paint hole is filled.As it is, leave a few days for the paint to completely dry.

After a few days, when the dryness progresses to the inside of the paint, we will work on polishing.There are water -resistant sandpaper (#400,#800,#1000) and compound (#3000,#5000,#10000).

Cover the area around the part with the touch pen with masking tape.This is to avoid scraping unnecessary parts with sandpaper.The part where the touch pen is applied is uneven, so polish the water -resistant sandpaper while raising the water -resistant sandpaper until the unevenness is unknown.While checking the unevenness with your finger, cut it.

When the uneven surface is smooth, remove the masking tape attached to protect and put the compound.Here, while changing from low -count to high, we will erase the shaving marks attached with water -resistant sandpaper.Polish carefully, and if the shaving marks disappear and the gloss comes out, it will be completed.Apply wax or coating agent to the finish.

It is recommended that the stepping stone injuries are peeled off and chipped, and if left as it is, rust on the body may occur or the cracks of the paint may spread, so we recommend early treatment.Let's use touch -up paint as if you drop it rather than painting.

(Sentence / photo: Wataru Sasaki)