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Solid paint The majority of cars — aside from the pricier ones — are available in a no-cost basic, solid colour, usually in white, red, blue or black. Pros: Solid paints are often inexpensive.
They come with several maintenance benefits: minor stone chips can be repaired with a touch-up pen of the same colour. More serious damage can be taken care of at a body shop at little cost in minimal time. Metallic Pretty much the same as solid paints, metallic varieties differ thanks to the addition of a small quantity of powdered metal added.
So those are the basics to arm yourself with before going to the paint store. He recommends that you pick a brand and use its products throughout the entire paint job. That way each layer, from etching primer to topcoat, will be compatible. Chemistry can vary from brand to brand, and mixing products can sometimes cause strange things to happen to the finish. You don't want to have to sand off your newly clearcoated car because the basecoat started lifting off the primer.
For our experiments we decided to check out some of the less expensive single-stage paints, as well as a water-based paint from Auto-Air Colors. Waterborne And Water-Based Paint California is in the process of further lowering the amount of air pollution emitted by automotive paints, and its guidelines are usually adopted by many other areas of the country within a few years.
Even though modern paints don't dry by evaporation, some chemicals called volatile organic compounds V0Cs are released when the paint is atomized at the tip of the spray gun and as the paint cures. These VOCs are what allegedly put holes in the ozone layer, rot your brain, and cause confusion, poor math scores, plagues, famines, and other natural disasters. Actually, most of the ingredients in paint are poisonous, and some of the solvents are things like isocyanates-chemicals closely related to cyanide that were used to execute people in the gas chamber-so it is worth looking into eliminating some of these byproducts.
Waterborne paints are the generally accepted solution to that problem. While they're still solvent-based, meaning the carrier agents are petroleum products, the carrier and binder will mix with water, and water is in fact one of the ingredients of the carrier agents in these paints that evaporates as part of the paint-curing process.
Waterborne paints have been the industry standard in Europe for several years because regulations are more stringent than in the U. There's no need to fear waterborne paints-when was the last time you saw bad paint on a new BMW? All of the major brands available in the U. While the big guys scramble to get their waterborne paints out, there is a small company in Connecticut that has been making completely water-based automotive paint for almost 30 years.
Auto-Air Colors started in , marketing its products to custom painters and airbrush artists. Craig Kennedy now runs the company begun by his parents, and we spoke to him about its paint. Auto-Air has no solvents and emits no VOCs as it dries.
He happily sent us a quart of basic black to try out, which we took to Ferre at LATTC so he could show us how to use it. Since no one makes a water-based clearcoat, you'll have to spray a solvent-based clear over an Auto-Air basecoat. The company offers a wide variety of colors and a lot of cool custom options, from candies and pearls to metalflake and fluorescent colors. Kennedy says the trends he's seeing now are subtle two-tone paint jobs and pearl accents being used on body lines.
Two Stage - or base and top coat finishes, require you to apply an initial base coat or a few of the colour you want, and then a protective and shiny clear coat over the top. These coats will be done over the top of a primer usually, and the number of coats applied in each stage will vary depending upon the desired finish. Of course, like everything, there are exceptions to the rule - such as candy paints or other special ways of applying coats in order to achieve unique looks - but for the sake of simplicity, these two main categories are where you should start.
There are 3 basic types of car paint; Lacquer, Enamel and Urethane. However, what paint belongs in what category, and even the definitions themselves are actually fairly blurred due to the massive variety in compounds and applications these days. These are quite a dated paint choice and are not used on new vehicles.
If you are restoring an older car you might choose lacquer paint to match the original finish, but realistically, urethane paints can usually achieve the same look while also providing far better surface protection. Lacquer paints also require a larger amount of hand work in order to achieve the same sort of shine as newer paint types.
Enamel paints are often broken down into two additional categories - Synthetic Enamel, and Acrylic Enamel Synthetic Enamel should be thought of as a Utility Grade Paint. Acrylic Enamel paints are often used with a hardener, which will increase their durability and decrease their drying time. Acrylic enamel paint is available as either a single stage or a two stage paint, and will often need to be baked onto the car in order to provide a hard, long-lasting finish.
Urethane finishes are probably the best commercially available paint choice currently, and are available in any colour you could require. Appropriately, urethane paint is also far more resistant to UV damage than other, older paints too.
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