Paint Shop

Automotive Painting Services

We provide car painting as part of our overall collision auto body repair services. Our automotive paint jobs are known for their durability and shine and come with a full National Lifetime Guarantee for as long as you own your vehicle.

Our Painting and Refinishing Services Include:

• Auto paint touch-ups
• In-House color mix and matching
• Paint chip repairs
• Complete paint jobs

Main layers of automotive paint

Clear Coat Finish

The point of clear coat is to protect the paint that’s underneath and make it shine. One of the biggest ways paint gets damaged results from oxidation courtesy of the sun’s UV rays. This is why the clear coat finishes have UV inhibitors in them. These help prevent the ultraviolet rays from fading the color of the vehicle.

Car Paint and Refinish

While some auto paint shops may choose minimal preparation to be faster, Regal Repair always takes the time to makes sure the existing surface is perfect before applying the first drop of paint. We'll do any necessary body repair, sand, repair chips and scratches, and add protective surface sealant as part of our preparation process. Once the surface is ready, your car is ready to be painted. With your chosen color and style of paint, we'll enter the paint bay and protect all sensitive areas before applying the paint in a smooth and even coat.

Painting and Refinishing Process:

• The exact color of paint has to be selected
• The vehicle is carefully cleaned and degreased

• Any part not being painted is covered with protective plastic and tape
• It is brought into a painting booth with controlled ventilation and temperature
• It is spray-painted multiple times, and then covered in a clear, protective layer
• The paint is dried either by air and time, or by heat

Water-base Car Paint Shop and In-House Color Match

Sherwin-Williams Automotive Finishes offers accurate color matching and superior support. Shop. When it comes to building durability, increasing performance or enhancing appearance, Sherwin Williams refinish business owns a track record of success no other company can match. For nearly 100 years, they’ve delivered the automotive, commercial fleet and light industrial coatings the world needs.

Reducing our impact on the environment. Helping the neighborhoods where we live. Creating a workplace that is safe and diverse. These are our challenges. As a local body shop, we are meeting them in big ways.

We proudly use Sherwin-Williams Paints

‍

‍

Frequently Asked Questions about Paint Shop

Why are you painting panels that weren't even damaged?

This is the question we get most, and it's a fair one, it looks like we're doing more work than the damage requires. We're not. It's called blending, and it's the difference between a repair you can't see and one you can.

Here's the problem. Even a perfect colour match creates a hard edge where new paint meets old. In daylight, at an angle, your eye finds that edge immediately, it reads as a line down the side of the car. Blending fades the new colour gradually into the neighbouring panels so there's no edge to find.

Metallics and pearls make it unavoidable. Those finishes contain flakes that lie differently depending on how they were sprayed, so two panels with identical paint codes can still read differently side by side.

If an insurer's estimate doesn't include blend time, that's usually where a visible repair comes from. We raise it with your carrier rather than quietly skipping it.

Can't you just look up my paint code?

The code is where we start, not where we finish. Two things make it insufficient on its own.

Your paint has changed. A car that's spent four years in Los Angeles sun isn't the colour it left the factory. UV exposure shifts it, and it shifts unevenly — the roof and hood more than the doors.

Factory paint varies. The same code can differ slightly between production batches and assembly plants. Manufacturers publish variant formulas for exactly this reason.

So we read the colour from your actual car, mix in-house, and check it against the panel in daylight before anything is sprayed on the vehicle.

Will the repaired area match perfectly?

The honest answer: the goal isn't a laboratory-identical match, it's a repair you can't find. Those aren't the same thing, and chasing the first while ignoring the second is how shops produce work that measures well and looks wrong.

What we're aiming for is that you can stand in front of the car in daylight, at the angle where flaws show, and not be able to tell which panel was repaired. That's achieved through matching and blending together, never one alone.

Some finishes are harder than others. Multi-layer reds, pearls and matte finishes are genuinely demanding. We'll tell you upfront if yours is one of them rather than discovering it together at collection.

How should I look after fresh paint?

Ask this before you leave, because new paint needs a bit of care and most people don't find out until they've already washed the car.

Paint is dry to the touch long before it has fully cured. During that window the surface is softer than it will be, and a few ordinary things can mark it:

Automatic car washes: the brushes are abrasive and the surface isn't ready for them.
‍Waxing and sealing: these can seal in solvents that still need to escape.
‍Bird droppings, tree sap and sprinkler water: remove them promptly rather than letting them sit; fresh paint is more vulnerable to etching than cured paint.

Hand washing with plain water and a soft mitt is fine straight away. We'll give you written aftercare guidance at collection with the specific timings for the product used on your car, they vary by system and by weather, which is why we won't put a number on this page.

Will the repainted panel fade differently over time?

It shouldn't, and this is the real test of a refinish, plenty of repairs look fine on collection day and separate visibly after two summers.

Modern clear coats carry UV inhibitors, and that's what protects the colour underneath from the sun. A repair using proper materials, applied at the correct film thickness and fully cured, ages at the same rate as the paint around it. One sprayed thin or rushed through the cure doesn't.

This is also why blending matters beyond day one: a blended transition ages gradually across the panel, while a hard edge becomes more obvious as both sides weather differently. Our workmanship warranty covers this, which is the point of putting it in writing.

Is waterborne paint as durable as solvent-based?

Yes, and in California it's largely not optional. Air quality regulations have driven the industry to waterborne basecoats, and manufacturers have engineered them accordingly.

Durability comes mostly from the clear coat, which sits on top and takes the UV, the weather and the car wash. The basecoat underneath supplies colour and effect. So the waterborne-versus-solvent question matters less to longevity than people assume.

Where waterborne genuinely helps is colour: it's very good at reproducing the metallic and pearl effects modern finishes rely on. We use a Sherwin-Williams waterborne system, mixed in-house, sprayed in a downdraft booth with controlled temperature and airflow — the booth conditions matter as much as the product

‍