Abstract: A method provides for small-surface and cost-saving repair of a damaged spot or a defective paint spot on a new paint coat of a motor vehicle. The damaged spot is cleaned and, without being ground out, is laid out carefully and with a slight excess with a filler mass whose shade approaches that of the respective paint coat. Thereby, the undamaged paint surface directly next to the damaged spot remains free of filler mass. After the drying of the filler mass, the excess of the laid-out damage spot is levelled off. After the cleaning of the levelled-off damage spot, a paint is applied to the spot in a small-surface and thin manner which in its color corresponds to the finish paint coat. The spraying nozzle is radially guided centrifugally away from the damage spot. After a ventilating or drying of the applied tinted paint, a solvent-containing transparent coat is applied to the repaired spot also on a small surface.