A method of detecting and repairing paint defects on a vehicle body (10) is
provided, including developing paint defect data using electronic imaging
of the vehicle body (S1), referencing said electronic imaging with vehicle
CAD data to develop three dimensional paint defect coordinates for each
paint defect (S2), storing said paint defect data and said paint defect
coordinates referenced to the vehicle body (S3), developing a repair
strategy based upon said paint defect data and said paint defect
coordinates (S4), and performing an automated repair on the paint defects
based upon said repair strategy (S5).
