Have you ever wondered "How" and, or "Why," car parts or cars get prepped the way they do? Look no further, because we have a brief description of our process. It's all in the prep!

If you want us to get more technical or detailed in our process, please let us know in the comments!

0:00 Start
0:22 Intro
1:00 If you don't prep correctly
1:35 How to prep metal panels
1:56 Why we prep
2:20 Electrodeposition coating
2:37 E-Coat process
3:35 Scuffing the painted part
5:27 Prepping bumpers
6:09 Tape up textured pieces
8:09 What if I don't paint my parts or the job is bad?
9:55 Our promise
10:10 Outro

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Hello and thank you for watching our video! Painting car parts or cars can be an easy process but that doesn't mean that it is not labor-intensive. There is a lot that goes into the entire process. We specialize in pre-painted auto parts and pride ourselves on being the best company to do it. That's right, we're the best. There a lot of techniques and ways to paint car parts but everything starts with how well you prep it for paint.

What is E-Coat?
Electrodeposition coating is a process in which the parts or car is electrically charged with positive ions and is dipped into a vat of water that is mixed with negatively charged pigments or resin. Positive and negatives attract and the paint or resin bonds with the metal panels coating them all over. It basically becomes one with metal or plastic. Metal has to have primer or moisture and oxygen will eventually rust the metal. It is a bit different for plastic. Plastic will obviously not rust but plastic is very smooth and it's hard for paint to adhere to the surface. A primer is also applied to the plastic to promote adhesion of the paint. In both cases, we do have to scuff the primer before the painting process to promote better adhesion as well.

The Process:
Think of our food pyramid, the very bottom of the pain pyramid would the prep work on the part. There are 2 types of parts, plastic, and metal parts. The metal parts are probably the easiest to prep if they're perfect. We got lucky with this Acura TL fender in the video. As you know, nothing is perfect and sometimes parts will come with dents of all shapes and sizes. For the most part, we do not use any of those parts that are beyond fixing or will take too long to fix. We don't have time for that, we're painting a ton of parts and need them in and out.

What we do first is check for and dents and if there are any we would have to fix them. Keep in mind they would not be too bad small dents or scratches can be easily fixed. Normally, we would scuff the part and this will usually get rid of shallow scratches and allow us to better see and dents if there are any. But, if there were any imperfections or dents that could not be removed with the scuff pad, we would have to putty over it. Once the putty is dried and flattened, we would have to apply a primer on top. When the primer dries, it's ready for paint!

Plastic parts are no different, they must be checked for any imperfections and fixed the same way. The only bad thing about plastic is you cannot always fix it. Specifically, when there is damage to a textured piece, there is just about no way to fix it. Textured accent pieces do not get painted and are often a different type of plastic. Most bumpers are made with a mix of a lot of plastics but as long as the primer process is a good one, there isn't much to worry about. Because bumpers more often come with accent pieces, we have to tap those off and cover them to get that OEM look. Prepping OEM bumpers or bare plastic is a slightly different process but please let us know if you want to see that, and we'll make a video for you!

Whether you buy parts from us or someone else, it's important to educate yourself on the process because paint jobs are not cheap. Paint jobs should not be cheap and they should last forever. Make sure you get done the right way or your just gonna have to redo it in the future.

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