Patent ID: 7165307

Claim:
In a vehicle manufacturing method involving press-forming panel parts from a sheet metal and welding the panel parts together to form an automobile body, the method comprising the steps of: painting the automobile body so that the automobile is paint-finished; assembling an engine and functional parts into the paint-finished automobile body to thereby produce an assembled automobile; and after the automobile is completely manufactured, performing a final inspection of the assembled automobile, wherein the method further includes, between the painting and the assembling steps, pretreating the paint-finished automobile body, including substeps of washing the paint-finished automobile body and dehydrating the paint-finished automobile body; coating a strippable paint on an exterior painted surface of the paint-finished automobile body; a step for partially drying said strippable paint applied to the exterior painted surface of the paint-finished automobile body so as to promote the drying of the strippable paint from the inside thereof; a step for finally drying the automobile body to uniformly dry the entire strippable paint applied to the exterior painted surface of the automobile body to thereby form a protective film on the painted surface; and at least the assembling step and the final inspection step are carried out while the protective film of the strippable paint remains coated on the painted surface of the paint-finished automobile body.