Today we are going to show you how to prepare an OEM fender and get it ready for paint, OEM stands for original equipment manufactured, and what that means is its -- for example if this is Honda fender and it came from Honda and we are going to show how to prepare that. OEM fenders have what's called E-coat on it and that's to help prevent corrosion and it also provides good adhesion for your next layers. So the way you prepare an OEM fender as opposed to may be a used fender or an aftermarket fender, you have a different repair maintenance so, we are going to have Devin today to show us how to do that.
Before we do anything with the fender, we first need to make sure we've al the supplies that are needed. To start off we need to make sure that we have all our recommended safety equipment which includes safety glasses, an approved dust mask and to our respirator depending on what you are using but today we'll use the dust mask. Some latex gloves and we also have our D.A Sander 400 or 500 grit sand paper but today we'll be using 500, and inner surface sanding pad which goes on the D.A, this helps for a even sanding surface on the fender itself.
We have a maroon scuff pad that we use to scuff the E-coat on the fender. To prepare, we'll have to wash the fender which we'll some regular dish soap, ivory soap works. We have a bucket with some water in it and then we have our waxing grease remover and our shop towels.
Alright we first start off, before we do any type of repair or refinish work to any thing we always want to make sure that we wash the product first which in case, we'll be using some ivory dish soap like we showed to you earlier. We use this, because its gets off all the wax and grease materials. It completely cleans the contaminants off the fender in this case, where with the normal car soap that you might use, you know washing you car or whatever, some of that products are actually not made to get all the grease off, I mean in this case we want a nice clean surface before we start any of our refinish work.
One thing you always want to make sure is that you completely wash the entire fender, you want to get all the edges and every thing make sure that all of its nice and cleaned off, so we don't have any grease wax or dirt products, anything like that on there.
And this just helps by having a clean surface this kind of helps you like say when you go to actually paint the product, it helps to eliminate like a lot of paint defects. fish eyes, paint peeling anything like that so you always want to make sure that you clean any material that you are working on thoroughly. This is one step that a lot of times does get overlooked so we want to make sure you get it nice and clean before you start.
And after you get it all wiped down, you will just want to take some like running water from your homes or wherever you might get your water from and just thoroughly wash it off, just let the water run down the product and you don't actually spray it down, you don't parallel wash or anything and that's what we do next, as we just completely wash it off, get it clean, after we get wash it off we go ahead and dry. If you have the time you can let it air dry or you can take and use a blow off gun and help speed up the process.
Okay, now our second step after drying the fender is we are going to use some wax and grease remover. In this case we are using Shopline wax and grease remover. You want to make sure that you have two separate shop rags when you are doing this. One to use with the wax and grease remover and then one to actually dry it off with and we'll just take some of this and get it on a rag and whenever you are using this, you always want to make sure you do small sections at a time, you don't want to wipe off the entire fender and then start drying it, you don't want this stuff to dry on it its own, you want to wipe it dry, you just wipe a little bit at a time and make sure you get the edges with it also, then you want to take your dry rag and wipe it all off and what this helps, does is just in case, there's any dirt or contaminants left on the fender after we wash it with soap and water, this will remove anything that's left on here, so it will be nice and clean.
Our next step we'll take a maroon scuff pad and what we are going to use we are going to scuff the inside jams and the inside lips, the edge pieces on the fender and this will allow us when we go to paint the fender, we'll be able to paint on the jammed screws, so let they mach. Some paint manufacturers say that on the factory E-coat you can paint, see or write over the E-coat after you get it clean. We recommend just taking an extra step, just to be safe, go ahead and scuff in the inside jams, scuffing up the factory E-coat and what that will do is allow us that when we go to paint, it will give the paint some mixture to bite to, so we don't have to worry about it peeling up later and all you do is just to take your scuff pad and lightly scuff the jam areas.
Our next step after we scuffed up the edges will be to take our D.A with our inner surface pad on there, and our 500 grit sand paper you can do 400 or 500 depending on the material on what want to use, today we are going to use 500. You can use a D.A or you can also hand sand, what you want to do also is just like when you are scuffing you want to make sure that you don't actually sand all the way down through the E-coat, you want to leave that E-coat on there. You just want to rough it up some, gives our paint something to stick to, you want to make sure that while we are doing this -- on the edges you don't sand through and what ever after we get done sanding with our D.A, if we have some areas left by the edges, we go and scuff those up just to make sure that everything is roughed up and so none of our paint will peel from the edges, borders or anything like that.
Alright now after we have done our sanding, you can still kind if see that, we have a little couple of areas that we didn't quite get so we are going to back to our scuff pad and get those. You can also see we have some areas that we worked through on here which we try not to do that but it will normally always happen so we'll just come back, after we scuff, that we'll put some self etching primer on those to cover those up. After we get all this done, we'll go ahead and move it in to the paint move and we'll clean it off one last time and then it'll be ready for paint.
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