Patent ID: 8337649

Claim:
A method of repairing a surface of a coated substrate, comprising: (I) laminating at least one refinish sheet to a coated side or to a location on the surface of the coated substrate, the at least one refinish sheet prepared by: (1) coating one side of a temporary carrier sheet (A) with at least one aqueous coating material (B) comprising at least one free-radically crosslinkable binder (B1) having a glass transition temperature of −70 to +50°C., an olefinically unsaturated double bond content of 2 to 10 eq/kg, and an acid group content of 0.05 to 15 eq/kg to produce at least one resultant layer, wherein the free-radically crosslinkable binder (B1) is selected from the group consisting of oligomeric and polymeric epoxy (meth)acrylates, urethane (meth)acrylates, and carbonate (meth)acrylates, and wherein the aqueous coating material (B) is a structurally viscous dispersion that is free, or substantially free, from volatile organic compounds and that comprises, as its disperse phase, solid particles, viscous particles, or a combination thereof, wherein the disperse phase is dimensionally stable under storage and application conditions and has an average particle size as measured by photon correlation spectroscopy of 80 to 750 nm; (2) drying but not curing, or only part-curing, the at least one resultant layer to produce at least one dried, uncured or part-cured layer; and (3) optionally, partly or fully covering the at least one dried, uncured or part-cured layer by at least one dried, uncured or part-cured layer (C) which is curable physically, thermally and/or with actinic radiation and is selected from the group consisting of layers which serve to produce color and/or effect basecoats, surfacer coats, and antistonechip priming coats; and (II) fully curing with actinic radiation the dried, uncured or part-cured layer in step (2) or said layer in step (2) and optional layer (C) if present ,before or after removing the temporary carrier sheet (A).