Chipex, Sepang Blue, approx 6 coats of paint with no top coat...good quality stuff, but expensive (ca. £33)
Post your pre and post chip repair pics (include make of kit used)
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Have you thought about wet sanding it to get it smooth again?
I will be going over mine and touching up any chips and scratches I have...which I've lost count of now...and wet sanding the worst first to level it, applying the colour and repeating till its flat enough to add top coat.
Repeat with the top coat to level it again.
Hoping to get away with p4000. I don't want to make a massive job for myself.
I've gone down as far as p1500! Before to remove texture and working back up is a looooong process.
You've done a good job so far.
Have you got lacquer? You can get 15ml for 1.25 on eBay. Plenty to go around.
I will be going over mine and touching up any chips and scratches I have...which I've lost count of now...and wet sanding the worst first to level it, applying the colour and repeating till its flat enough to add top coat.
Repeat with the top coat to level it again.
Hoping to get away with p4000. I don't want to make a massive job for myself.
I've gone down as far as p1500! Before to remove texture and working back up is a looooong process.
You've done a good job so far.
Have you got lacquer? You can get 15ml for 1.25 on eBay. Plenty to go around.
Think I will buy some lacquer as Chipex does not come with any.
The picture is a little deceiving as the paint is not quiet proud yet.To be honest the blending solution does a very good job of removing excess paint so dint think I need to revert to wet sanding but it is an option.
I did have some good shots of the chips on my old car being repaired with Langka, but sadly can't find them.
I do have some really good shots of a paint less dent removal Jedi removing a nasty fist sized dent from my rear quarter though.
I do have some really good shots of a paint less dent removal Jedi removing a nasty fist sized dent from my rear quarter though.
Well alright then...
These are from 2013, when some scrote used my 2 month old car to climb over a wall putting a fist sized dent in it;
I took the car to see a chap called Kris Bull, a self employed and self trained dent masseur, who works in the South Essex, North Kent areas. (He's based near Bluewater). I've used him before, having found his contact details in a very old post on a Ferrari forum.
The dent started out looking pretty nasty...
Getting to work. First step is convince the metal to spring back to something resembling it's "natural" shape.
At this point the damage was more visible, a nasty ridge about 6" long, and 2 fairly deep dents. Time to start the massage.
Once the ridge is out, the dents get probed from behind (stop sniggering at the back);
Time passes...
Almost there...
Done!
The repair took 2 hours, and despite having watched him hammer, rub, cajole and coerce the metal back to its former shape, I have absolutely no idea how he did it. What is clear though, is that he has a serious talent for fixing stuff. Can't recommend him highly enough.
Kris can be contacted via telephone on 07970 263 999. The damage shown cost £70 +VAT to repair (nearly three years ago) You can go to him, or as long as you don't live miles away, he will travel to you.
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What paint code did you go for? I see there is sepangblau ly5q e9, y5q and sepangblau ly5q
Cheers
Together with 3000 grade wet & dry this is my weapon of choice against stone chips to either restore the gloss finish after sanding or to polish out minor ones that don't penetrate the lacquer :-
They were on offer end of February luckily so I pre-ordered then. It's very good for compound curve surfaces and hard to reach areas where you wouldn't get in with a 100mm pad. Can even use it on the wheel spokes and inner rim !!
