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Paint shop

Meaning in automotive, with examples

nounCommon term

In automotive, paint shop means: The area of a car plant, or a repair workshop, where bodies are cleaned, coated against corrosion and painted. In a plant the main layers are e-coat, primer, base coat and clear coat.

In Turkish: boyahane, boya atölyesi

How it is used

In a plant, the paint shop sits between the body shop and final assembly and is often the bottleneck. Quality staff look for paint defects such as dirt, runs and orange peel. In repair work, people say body and paint shop.

Example sentences

  1. The paint shop is running at full capacity, so the extra shift starts on Monday.

  2. Paint shop audits found dust inclusions on the roof of three bodies.

Common collocations

  • e-coat
  • base coat
  • clear coat
  • paint defect
  • body and paint shop
  • assembly lineA production line where a vehicle moves from station to station and workers or robots add parts in a fixed order until the car is complete.
  • body-in-whiteThe stage of car production at which the sheet metal parts of the body have been welded together, before painting and before the engine, trim and other parts are added.
  • spot weldingA welding method in which two electrodes press sheets of metal together and pass a strong current through them, melting a small spot that joins the sheets. A car body has thousands of spot welds.
  • durability testingTests that check whether a vehicle or part keeps working over its expected life, done on rough test tracks, on test rigs or with high-mileage test fleets.

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