76b VIDEO HOW TO REPAIR A CAR FINISH WITH A RANDOM ORBIT SANDER

Many times when my wife heads into the city with the van here, we come back with some damage

We don't know how this particular scuff happened here. Must have happened in some sort of parking lot or something

But I'm going to try something to make this look better. I mean, this is not a new vehicle

It's 2004. but I believe in keeping vehicles good for the long haul and that means little

repairs and fix-ups like this if you want to keep ahead of things. So what I'm going

to do is I'm going to wash this area to get off any road grid and then I'm going to

use a buffing pad on a random orbit sander with some automotive rubbing

compound. I'm kind of thinking that this is actually, I'm hoping anyway, that this

is on the surface that this hasn't actually affected the paint. So I'm going to try the mild

abrasion of the rubbing compound and hope I can get rid of this white stuff. If I can't

and I really don't know what I'm going to run into yet, I'm going to continue. I have some

color matched paint for the van here and I'm going to show you how I would paint over damage

like this with paint and clear coat and then buffing to blend the repair into the surrounding areas So first I wash and then we try some buffing So this is my six inch random orbit sander I had this for a long time

I've sanded a lot of decks and done all kinds of woodworking with it

but it actually is a superb auto polishing tool as well if you have the right kind of pad

So this is a foam polishing pad. It's got a threaded shaft that goes into the machine, just like the sanding pad would

I got this and the rubbing compound on Amazon. Pretty convenient. And so I've moistened the pad and I have put on some of the rubbing compound

I've turned down the speed too. you don't want it to operate at full RPM

I'm going to start it fairly slow, and then I'll just start buffing here. The van is a little bit wet

This is a wet process. So I want to keep it lubed with water, and let's see if this works

and Well I think good things are happening here

I know it's not completely gone yet, but let's just see. Oh yeah

there is something that's definitely gone through the paint here. But if you remember, there used to be some marks up here

These are a lot less that used to be. Same with down here

So I'm going to continue buffing and just see how good I can get that

While I'm at it, I'm going to buff a few other places on the van too that have

gotten the clear coat scuffed a little bit. But this is a perfect example of how a little bit of

bit of TLC can really make a difference and I'm going to continue and then show you the

result when I get it as good as I can get it. Well I'm very pleased with what's happened here

It's the buffing that I please excuse those crows in the background

The buffing approach I used has worked very well This is just great There no need for painting There are a couple of spots Maybe we go at that a little bit more Down here too there was some actual damage

That looks worse close up than it does from a distance but I'm not shooting for perfection here but this is close enough

I think it'll be just fine. You well I'm at it. I also polished this headlight lens using the same rubbing compound

There's a finer grade than this, but I find that this works pretty well for most things

This I've just finished and compare it to this one. It's got a little water on it, but it is definitely cloudier

It only took me about five minutes to convert this cloudy lens to this..

to this much clearer lens using the buffing compound on that random orbit standard with the

abrasive pad. I hope you can find these tips useful. Bye for now. Thanks for watching. Click here to join the

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