Rock Chip Repair

[Jeff Henning]

My '89 has been taken good care of and the paint looks great. However a few stones have bounced off the fromt end and taken paint with them.
Has anyone had success touchin up these little buggers.
I have found a touch up kit by Mothers #101857 for $39.95 and am tempted to give it a try.
Any stories with happy endings?

Jeff

 

[JonM]

I haven't used this, but I'll let you read, and make the call...perhaps someone else will chime in.

http://www.langka.com/

http://www.touchupautopaints.com/

http://www.paintscratch.com/

 

[Ted Krempa]

This is the age old dilemma....do you leave them alone or risk messin' with them and coming up with something that looks worse ? I think it may be easier with a solid color like black or even red, but no way am I going to mess with my metallic silver ! If we drive our cars its going to happen eventually. Let us know how it turns out

 

[bluetail47]

I just finished repairs of about six chips on my Ruby. I got my paint, clearcoat, sandpaper etc. from http://www.paintscratch.com/ . They also have instructions. It is very important to be patient. You need to fill the chips a little at a time to build the paint up. I used real fine sandpaper on the end of a pencil eraser to smooth it out, and then used rubbing compound to remove teh sandpaper scratches. Overall, I am pretty happy with the results.

 

[nyernga]

Go to etouchup.com and give them your paint code. They will mix it and you can get aerosol cans or small bottles for touchup. They'll send you a small bottle of clearcoat also. Then when you touch up the spots, the paint will be a close to perfect match.
There are steps on how to repair chips and it's easy enough. Stay away from those "kits" and "pen" type deals.

Len

 

[Papa]

Pics?

Bluetail...any pics of the spots you worked on?

 

[bluetail47]

Bluetail...any pics of the spots you worked on?

I'll take a couple of pics Friday when the weather is going to be sunny again and email them to you. I wish I had some before pics, but didn't think of it.

 

[MRANT212]

Jeff, I have done the Langka procedure with my 35th Anniv car and it came out great!! My wife walked in the garage with a wicker basket and part of the basket touched my car, tore the car cover and put a 1 inch gash on my rt front fender well done to the fiberglass!!! I went on Langkas website and paintscratch and ordered everything. If you use Langka let your blob of paint dry for at least a week before using the Langka.
If the paint on your car is in good shape the procedure should work well for you!!! I swear by the stuff now!!!

Anthony