Soldato
Got a stone chip on car. Looks like it was done a while ago. Only a few millimetres wide, approx 5mm or so.
Best way to deal with it? Best product?
Thanks
Best way to deal with it? Best product?
Thanks
Help with stone chip please
- Thread starter koolpc
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Yes, it is...chip is tiny...
Don
Noticeboard push pin or similar to scrape back to bare metal then use touch up paint.
Soldato
Most touch-up pens come with a miniature wire brush for that kind of thing. It'll never be perfect but should look a lot better.
You could use various things to clean it back to bare metal and use touch up paint but it will never look perfect.
You may need to address a slightly wider area to prevent future issues which then gets messy - I had a go on an old vehicle once, with a bigger mark, following a couple of YouTube guides that made it seem easy - looked perfect for 2 days then came up all blotchy
You may need to address a slightly wider area to prevent future issues which then gets messy - I had a go on an old vehicle once, with a bigger mark, following a couple of YouTube guides that made it seem easy - looked perfect for 2 days then came up all blotchy
Got it booked in to local place to see what they say...i dont want to mess it up myself...
Don
Bodyshop will want to respray the whole panel which will be £300 or so, even smart repairs are ~£200 these days
That will be impossible to conceal without a panel respray (its the bonnet right?). All you can do is rub it down mask the area around it get it nice & smooth use primer let it dry rub down again repeat then put a few light top coats over it. When they dry the big issue you will have is feathering the clearcoat lacquer is going to be pretty much impossible to do so no decent blend will be possible. From most angles it will be highly noticeable.
Best you can hope for is a small round noticeable different colour blob. Worse case scenario is your lacquer will make the rest of the area look rough leading to a complete bonnet respray.
Best you can hope for is a small round noticeable different colour blob. Worse case scenario is your lacquer will make the rest of the area look rough leading to a complete bonnet respray.
Don
And if it is the bonnet, no soon have you got it resprayed, you'll get another stone chip next week...
A good quality touch up paint (paint+lacquer mix) and some patience is the most sensible option imo
A good quality touch up paint (paint+lacquer mix) and some patience is the most sensible option imo
I agree. Still going to see what body shop say as its a free quote.
The chip is really tiny...less than 5mm.. pic makes it look big...
Soldato
All rust starts from a tiny spot. 
The rust needs sorting, not just painting over with touch up.
The rust needs sorting, not just painting over with touch up.
Don
All rust starts from a tiny spot.
The rust needs sorting, not just painting over with touch up.
It's a tiny bit of surface rust, scrape it back to clean metal and then touch up paint will be fine.
The main thing is to prevent further exposure to air/water which allows rust to happen exponentially faster
Soldato
Most cars are galvanised now, so the question is why is it rusted?
Don
Galvanizing is still just a coating, and in this day and age of cost saving it's probably microns thick. As such a hard enough hit with a stone can still penetrate it
I would need to scrape the rust off? Maybe with a tiny pin or something small i guess and then layer up the paint until it is a little proud if the surface and then buff / blend back?
Anyone use 'Chipex'. Product?
Anyone use 'Chipex'. Product?
Recently watched a very detailed YouTube video on this same topic. The person presenting it clearly knows paintwork, and even with all his knowledge and tools at his disposal still admitted it would never be perfect. If you have the time and inclination you can get very reasonable results, requires multiple stages of wet sanding and polishing.
It takes a lot more practise and/or knowledge and patience than these YT videos really convey to get anything like passable results in reality.
I think in the OPs case he could get adequate results, it wouldn't be hard to get it looking better than it already is, protecting the bonnet from further rust should be his primary concern.
I would sand or scrape whatever rust is there, then neutralise it with a rust converter. Fill the spot with a dab of primer with an fine artists paintbrush. Follow up with basecoat then a couple coats of clear allowing sufficient time for each coat to dry.
Then get on to wet sanding it flat, and polishing up with a DA polisher.
Soldato
Something like this to remove the rust
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111741724024
Then rust converter, primer, paint etc as above.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/111741724024
Then rust converter, primer, paint etc as above.