Body repair by own hands

In the process of using the car, it not only wears the moving parts, but also damages the bodywork. Often the car gets into adverse weather conditions, hail or an aggressive environment can seriously damage the paintwork. A bad road surface destroys the car's thresholds, branches of the bush inflict damage in the form of scratches on the surface of the body. Not to mention the accident, which entail serious malfunctions.

Not every driver has at his disposal a policy of car insurance KASKO, which guarantees the client repair of even minor body damages on a certified service station. Provided, of course, that the situation in which the damage occurred is an insurance event. How to act then, when the car owner does not have this contract? After all, such insurance for an old VAZ can reach half the cost of a vehicle. And there are restrictions on the year of release, mileage and some other parameters. How to make a body repair yourself, without recruiting specialists? And at the same time, it's no worse, and even better, than a self-taught master would offer you in a garage cooperative.

Minor body repair by their own hands is quite simple. Having the right tools, higher education is not required. Body straightening with your own hands is not such a tricky business. The main thing - persistence, accuracy and slowness. Body repair by one's own hands can be divided into three main types.

- removal of scratches;

- elimination of dents;

- straightening of the body with dents, which have chipped paintwork.

To carry out body repairs, you will need a nylon or wooden kijan, metal pads (preferably with rubber packing), a primer, a paint, a compressor for applying paint. You can rent it, you can buy the rest.

Body repair with their own hands occurs according to the following scheme. Remove the damaged part from the car. If the dent is small and does not have chipped paint, try pressing on the inside with your hands, if a characteristic click follows and she straightens, then we can assume that she was lucky. Some "experts" in SRT do just that, but give out this ten-minute work for hard work with straightening, priming and an ideal selection of paint. That's worth thinking about that body repair by their own hands is much better, and for general development it is more useful, if, of course, you have something to work on (it's better not to start experimenting with Porsche).

So, let's continue. If the click does not follow after clicking, do not use inhuman efforts. Take the damaged part and put it on an iron lining with a rubberized surface. On the inside of the dent or deep scratch - several layers of dense fabric or a thin layer of rubber. With light tapping of the hammer, we begin the body repair with our own hands, performing the straightening from the middle of the dent and gradually moving to its edges, evenly tapping the damaged surface with light punches. Why it is impossible to strike several strong blows at once and so solve the problem? Just because with a strong blow paint can crack, burst the metal, a biconvex dent will form. It is better in this case not to rush, and then you have to replace the damaged part with a new one. Be patient.

The most difficult to carry out body repair is the removal of scratches from the damaged primed surface, since small ones on the paintwork can be removed by polishing with special tools. In such cases, the scratch is leveled by a similar tapping. Then it is primed and painted.

Elemental body repair with their own hands also require the car's thresholds. They are the most vulnerable part of the body when driving on our not very good roads. The repair, of course, is much clearer here, and basically has only two solutions. If the part is removable, it is simply changed to a new one. Sometimes repairing the car's thresholds becomes much more difficult if they act as one whole with the bodywork.

Then they cut out of the general array and weld a metal construction. It is primed and painted. Minor repair of the dint of the threshold can be made without removal or replacement. In the damaged surface, holes are drilled, and irregularities are aligned using a metal lever. The holes are "hammered" with car shpaklevkoi, primed and painted.