Touch Up Paint Blending Solution

hudson86 · 11 Mar 2015 at 12:19

Pretty sure i saw a post in Motors in the last few months which suggested a product that worked with touch up paint for smoothing out paint blobs when repairing stone chips etc.

Similar to Dr ColorChip or Chipex, but it was just the blending solution for normal over the counter touch up paint.

Have search here but cant find it, any suggestions ?

Clarkey · 11 Mar 2015 at 12:36

Just sand it flat and buff?

zooankski · 11 Mar 2015 at 12:48

Langka The Blob Eliminator

hudson86 · 11 Mar 2015 at 17:12

Cheers )

shifty_uk · 11 Mar 2015 at 17:48

Got a bit of a scuff and some stone chips (general wear and tear) on my front bumper and wondered wether it would be worthwhile filling them myself or getting it done professionally.

What are you using to do the job? Is it manufacturer supplied paint?

adam cool dude · 11 Mar 2015 at 18:04

zooankski said:
Langka The Blob Eliminator

I bought this and it is rubbish as it removes everything from the chip as well.

Best way is to buy a set of fine artist brushes and fill the chips slowly. Then wet sand flat and buff off.

pepsilol · 11 Mar 2015 at 18:24

I tried the whole touch up stuff and gave up. Ended up spending £100 on the front bumper to be resprayed and turned out surprisingly good!

shauncr91 · 11 Mar 2015 at 18:59

Pepsilol, could you PM me where you got your bumper done if it was local to Sheffield please? Looks like they've done a cracking job especially for the price.

pepsilol · 11 Mar 2015 at 19:29

Yeah it was bang in Sheffield called Farrelly T.

Warning, it doesn't look like a great place and be prepared to give your car a thorough wash afterwards. He doesn't have detailers or or anything on site so it's cheap but you will need to clean up after him.

He did this on the M5.

Front bumper due to scuff.
Both front wings
Lower driver door rust
Fix rust and paint complete bonnet
Rear Quarter rust & paint
x1 Sill

Person who guesses how much gets a v cookie.

( |-| |2 ][ $ · 11 Mar 2015 at 19:50

£600-700 which would be cheap, but the biggest problem for me would be that I wouldn't dare leave my car over night at an indi in S9.

Clarkey · 11 Mar 2015 at 19:51

£400, sure you said before?

pepsilol · 11 Mar 2015 at 20:01

It was £350.

It's not really the dodgy part of S9 and it's locked up in a mini industrial unit behind some gates. Well my DB9 survived.

Tom_ed1987 · 11 Mar 2015 at 20:51

That's an astonishingly low price for the work. Is it actually an alright job - did you see any of the repairs mid prep?

pepsilol · 11 Mar 2015 at 20:56

The job is again shockingly ok. I can't knock it other than some overspray. He got overspray on my car aswell but I just clayed it off.

However it was a complete mess with polish residue and needed throughly cleaning. After cleaning up it looks pretty good, it's certainly better than the dull finish the dealer had done on it.

His paintwork on my DB9 has survived a year and looks perfectly fine. He's always busy with pretty new cars constantly in and out of his place yet no one has ever heard of him.