HOW IS THE CHEAPEST WAY TO GO AND THE EASIEST WAY TO PAINT A CAR AND PAINT IT RIGHT AND DO MEDUIMUM BONDO WORK?

ive never painted or done any body work before but im tring to do this to save myself some money and learn a little bit in the processHOW IS THE CHEAPEST WAY TO GO AND THE EASIEST WAY TO PAINT A CAR AND PAINT IT RIGHT AND DO MEDUIMUM BONDO WORK?
Awesome! Hopefully your car is an easy color like black or something though... very difficult to try and get paint mixed to oh say Ford's Mustang red or whatever...





You said Bondo work, does that mean you have damage on the car? If so always try to work damage out carefully with a body hammer or at least some kind of hammer, but don't just go crazy with it...





Using a block of wood or some solid object on the opposite side of your hammering helps smooth out the surface.





Start with 80 grit sandpaper on the damaged area and get it all the way down to bare metal (If 80 is going too slow you can use a little tougher but after using the rougher use the 80 to keep the scratches less intense)





You can use any flat piece of plastic, maybe an old ID card to spread bondo really. Mix up 1 part hardener to 10 parts bondo and do a nice skim coat of it over the bare metal. Be sure not to get it over any painted surfaces because it will most likely not want to adhere...





Let the bondo cure and use maybe around 140 grit sandpaper and smooth it out until it looks nice.





You can probably get a spray can of grey primer somewhere, maybe home depot or something and carefully give it a couple of light layers until you cover the sanded area and the bondo.





After primer has cured take some 400 grit sandpaper and lightly sand on the primer.





Once you've done that you can either use a spray can for paint or get a paint gun and air compressor...





Start blending your color outwards from the damaged area onto the undamaged area until it is nice and covered.





Once that has dried/cured, a can of Clear coat, again at home depot or some art stores, Glossy clear and UV resist is nice. Unless of course, you have a paint gun and compressor then you can get some clear from a paint store like PPG or something..





If you're painting outside of the damaged are you can find a Grey or sometimes Red scotchbrite scuffing pad to scuff up the clear, which you can paint and clear right over without worry about primer.





Just remember to mask over anything you don't want paint on, masking tape and masking paper galore!





Depending on how much you care, you can get inside the door jambs as long as you're careful and let everything cure properly.





If your clear doesn't come out perfectly don't worry, as long as you put on at least a few coats you can come back with some sandpaper.


Using maybe around 2000 grit WET sandpaper you can lightly go over some runs or orange peel.





Buff it a little with buffing compound and she should be good!





If you still have questions you can email me at brokusan@gmail.com or I use AIM and my name there is Hekinsieden, same for YIM.