Two Reasons Why It’s Important to Get Your Vehicle Professionally Spray-Painted

If you'd like to freshen up or completely change the colour of your vehicle, it's best not to use a DIY spray painting kit but to have it professionally spray painted instead. Here are some reasons why.

Evenly Spray Painting a Vehicle Requires Lots of Skill 

Whilst spray painting a vehicle might seem as simple as pointing an electric paint sprayer at it and moving this tool around, this is not the case at all. In reality, evenly spray painting a vehicle so that the results are uniform and smooth requires a lot of skill. If for example, you point the sprayer at one section of your car for longer than you do at another section, the former will have more paint on it than the latter. When viewed in bright light, this may result in the paint job looking patchy.

Likewise, if you don't apply enough paint to some parts of the vehicle, these areas might be more likely to get damaged by scratches (as vehicle paint is made to not only add colour to the body of a vehicle but also to be a barrier that protects its metal panels). Lastly, if you're using a paint colour that is drastically different to the existing one (for example, if the existing colour is black and the new paint colour is white), and you don't add the same quantity of spray paint to each panel, the original paint colour may show through the panels that you didn't spray thoroughly enough. As such, if you want the vehicle to have an even, attractive paint coat that serves its function as a protective layer, you should have a professional spray painter at an autobody shop do this task.

You Could Get Paint on Areas Other Than the Body of the Vehicle

Another reason to get the vehicle professionally spray painted is that if you do it yourself, you might get paint on areas other than the body of the vehicle. If for instance, you're careless when covering the tyres with plastic sheeting or adding protective tape to the lights, and your aim is not precise enough when you're pointing this tool at the panels, the sprayer's fine mist could leave particles of paint on the tyres, the wheels, the lights or other areas where it's not supposed to be. You might then have to scrape off this paint, which could leave scratches on these areas and could add hours to this project.

In contrast, a professional spray painter at an autobody shop will be meticulous when they're prepping your vehicle for this process and will look over every inch of the vehicle's exterior after adding protective tape and plastic sheeting to it, to ensure that only the areas that are to be painted are exposed.

Find an auto shop near you for spray painting services.

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