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Offline matchboy

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chips on my car
« on: 10 April 2010, 09:21 »
morning knowledgeable ones, i've got two noticeable chips on the side of my car ( :angry:), where is the best place for me to get some paint to touch it up?  can i just go into my stealer and get a little pot of deep black pearl?!  thanks in advance!  :smiley:
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Re: chips on my car
« Reply #1 on: 10 April 2010, 09:33 »
You can buy paint pens from your dealer, not the cheapest but they do seem to match better than helfrauds and aftermarket ones. I got one for mine the other day.
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Re: chips on my car
« Reply #2 on: 10 April 2010, 09:51 »
I got one for mine the other day.

You're lucky, VW still haven't produced a carbon grey touch up kit :angry:

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Re: chips on my car
« Reply #3 on: 10 April 2010, 09:53 »
You can buy paint pens from your dealer, not the cheapest but they do seem to match better than helfrauds and aftermarket ones. I got one for mine the other day.

Are you sliding the pens down the side of your A-frame?!  :wink:
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Re: chips on my car
« Reply #4 on: 10 April 2010, 09:57 »
cool, ta i'll nip in there at some point this weekend.  fooking annoying, my last gti had 36k miles and not a single chip, this one has two massive chips after 7k miles  :angry:
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Re: chips on my car
« Reply #5 on: 10 April 2010, 10:18 »
You can buy paint pens from your dealer, not the cheapest but they do seem to match better than helfrauds and aftermarket ones. I got one for mine the other day.

Are you sliding the pens down the side of your A-frame?!  :wink:
I may do yet
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Re: chips on my car
« Reply #6 on: 10 April 2010, 12:34 »
cool, ta i'll nip in there at some point this weekend.  fooking annoying, my last gti had 36k miles and not a single chip, this one has two massive chips after 7k miles  :angry:

You've got chips, I've got 3 small depressions, Snoops has premuturely greyed .. Our cars are getting old! :grin:
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Re: chips on my car
« Reply #7 on: 10 April 2010, 16:38 »
cool, ta i'll nip in there at some point this weekend.  fooking annoying, my last gti had 36k miles and not a single chip, this one has two massive chips after 7k miles  :angry:

You've got chips, I've got 3 small depressions, Snoops has premuturely greyed .. Our cars are getting old! :grin:

My little silver lady had got 3 stone chips on the bonnet already in just under a month... Bl**dy holes in the roads around my way are still a joke.. I've always been paranoid about touch up pens as they can make the bonnet look worse than leaving the stone chips sometimes. Reckon I'll have to do something though- urgh !!

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Re: chips on my car
« Reply #8 on: 10 April 2010, 16:48 »
I was going to make a bad joke about removing the chips from your bonnet as soon as possible - otherwise you'll end up with seagull footprints all over your bonnet...
But its too lame, so I won't bother  :wink:
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Re: chips on my car
« Reply #9 on: 10 April 2010, 17:27 »
If you tailgate then you end up with loads of stone chips!!

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