How To Prep Car Door Jambs For Paint

A sprayer will speed up the application process and help distribute the primer better.

How to prep car door jambs for paint.

First you will wash the car with a special cleaner to remove all the old wax and residue from acid rain. That s going to take a little bit longer. Today we re going to talk about paint prep what parts or trim should you remove when. Household detergent won t do it well.

The second way is do the door jambs then base and clear. Then paint the outside the following day. Take a red scotchbrite pad and a bucket of warm water add a little bit of dawn original dish soap and sprinkle some comet or ajax on the jamb and scuff em really good. You can do interiors and door jambs on one day and then do.

Don t want paint the car in pieces because you may end up. Now when you paint the outside tape off the jambs up to about 1 8 or 3 16 from the edge so the seam won t be seen when the door is closed. Then you sand the whole car down. Sand the exterior including that little edge left from the jamb paint and do the last little bit of jamb paint up to the new tape line with a gray scuff pad.

You do everything at one shot. This means you prep your car and get the whole thing ready for paint do your door jambs. If everything is good then clean the jambs with wax and grease remover when dry sand the jambs w 320 dry by hand or da sander feather out any chips etc blow them off if satisfied. It s easier to do on small cars like miatas than bigger cars.

We left these parts on the car because it makes it easier to work on the parts while bolted in place without the part wobbling around on a parts stand. Then you will spend many hours wet sanding your car again and again until it has the proper surface for new paint to adhere to. Hold the nozzle of the sprayer 6 8 inches 15 20 cm away from the surface of the vehicle and pull the trigger to begin releasing the primer. Doing a custom color a metallic or candy paint job it s best to have all of your panels on the car.

Move the sprayer back and forth slowly over the area you re painting aiming for even coverage. After we finished sanding and prepping the outside of the car we removed the doors hood and trunk lid to allow us to properly prep and paint the jambs. The first thing a painter will need to do before priming and painting is to prep the repair area. There may also be grinding marks and edges where the paint coatings meet the metal.