Stone Chips

[Anonymous]

Got a stone chip on the front, next to the pug badge when my car was just 2 Mths old, fixed by chips away in a couple of hours, cost me less than £100. Perfect repair.

 

[RCZ1]

I got 3 stage paint kit from paints4u which contains primer, colour and lacquer coats. Use the three stages, left a full day to dry for each layer, making sure that you fill the gap, but not overfilling. Wet sanded the area back a little then polished it back up. Too quite deep dings are now gone.

 

[Anonymous]

I got 3 stage paint kit from paints4u which contains primer, colour and lacquer coats. Use the three stages, left a full day to dry for each layer, making sure that you fill the gap, but not overfilling. Wet sanded the area back a little then polished it back up. Too quite deep dings are now gone.

Okay your booked. I only have the one for ya though :lol:
PS. I will accept Ruby as my courtesy car for the three days duration whilst you complete the task :clap:

 

[Anonymous]

I'm quite reluctant to pay £100 for a little repair.

Self repair seems much more likely!

RCZ1 did you polish it by hand?

 

[Anonymous]

I'm quite reluctant to pay £100 for a little repair.

Self repair seems much more likely!

RCZ1 did you polish it by hand?

I would agree with you and the thing to take into account is that Chip away is a franchise and so recommendations are only good if it is the same operator that you are using. Your local guy may be rubbish and about to chuck it all in.

 

[Anonymous]

Good point Ron , I've some poor ' smart ' repairs. :thumbdown:

 

[Anonymous]

Ah............Stonechips... Just visit the Honda civic forum "CIVINFO" AND SEARCH STONECHIPS.............. My civic and all civic's where "NOTORIOUS" For this, the paint was crud so Brittle and thin the front of all "black" civics "Looked like the beginning of a "Star Trek" episode and all bodyshop's country wide where always respraying the full front of civic's especially the Type R's. I had my car done after a year, 2 wings,bonnet,front bumper at discounted price of £400 :wtf: normally its £200 a panel its the only true way of getting properly rid of them, then they start again..........its just like painting the forth road bridge............

Driving habits have a lot to do with getting them as well :thumbup:

 

[RCZ1]

I'm quite reluctant to pay £100 for a little repair.

Self repair seems much more likely!

RCZ1 did you polish it by hand?

To be honest, I did the process twice. The first time I did machine polish but this knocked it back too far. I removed all the paint that .i filled in the ding. So applied the three stages of the paint again, wet sanded and then polished by hand. This didn't cut back as hard and was better for this particular example. It depends on the grit level you use. I used 2000 grit but up to 3000 you should be able to polish out by hand.

This is the kit that I used
http://www.paints4u.com/pdffiles/30ml%2 ... %20Kit.pdf

Here's a link to stone chip repairs on Detailing World, that helped me.
http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/s ... hp?t=20127

 

[Anonymous]

**shudders at the thought of sanding down his RCZ **

 

[RCZ1]

**shudders at the thought of sanding down his RCZ **

Why? If you try wet sanding and you're not happy with it then you are not going to have lost anything are you? You then go down the route of a respray, if that's what you want to do.

That was my thinking. The guy who repaired my slightly scuffed alloy gave me a price to do my wing mirror, which was only about £50 but he said it would require respraying the whole wing mirror. It gave me the incentive to try and sort it out myself, which I did, without requiring a respray.

 

[Anonymous]

Here's a link to stone chip repairs on Detailing World, that helped me.
http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/s ... hp?t=20127

Thanks for this great link :thumbup:

Looks like something even I could do...