Man of Honour
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I'm sure we've all suffered this at one point in car ownership - the dreaded stone chips / paint chips one gets after a while.
I'm noticing more and more despite never driving too close to cars or trucks - maybe there were there before I bought the car but discretely covered with temporary touch up stuff?...
Anyway, a couple of the spots are quite deep chips and I'm not too sure where to start as far as sorting them. I doubt it's just a case of using the same coloured paint as I'm sure you've got to scrub away a bit of the crap old flakey paint around the chip (they really are small tiny chips - but I can see a bit of "raggedness" around the main part of it). Or will that do? I don't have the patience or the skill really do sand things down etc - certainly not for the sake for a half a dozen or so chips. But I would love to protect it from getting worse.
At the moment a respray is out of the question as I can't afford to do it really - and if I do it I'd do the entire car not just certain parts of it.
Anybody got any amazing tips and tricks? Or at least point me to the right area?
Maybe at the RR day people can have a look and give me their opinions
I'm noticing more and more despite never driving too close to cars or trucks - maybe there were there before I bought the car but discretely covered with temporary touch up stuff?...
Anyway, a couple of the spots are quite deep chips and I'm not too sure where to start as far as sorting them. I doubt it's just a case of using the same coloured paint as I'm sure you've got to scrub away a bit of the crap old flakey paint around the chip (they really are small tiny chips - but I can see a bit of "raggedness" around the main part of it). Or will that do? I don't have the patience or the skill really do sand things down etc - certainly not for the sake for a half a dozen or so chips. But I would love to protect it from getting worse.
At the moment a respray is out of the question as I can't afford to do it really - and if I do it I'd do the entire car not just certain parts of it.
Anybody got any amazing tips and tricks? Or at least point me to the right area?
Maybe at the RR day people can have a look and give me their opinions
