Author Topic: Stone chip repair  (Read 8514 times)

Offline Jimble

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Stone chip repair
« on: 16 February 2011, 22:13 »
I've got a single stone chip at the front of my bonnet thats down to the primer so greyish white, an annoying blemish on what is otherwise a fairly decent finish! :angry: I bought a touch-up kit from the stealers which consists of two small bottles, one base coat (colour) and one clearcoat.
Rather than just blob it in the chip i was thinking of trying to do it properly,
I was thinking:

1)Clean out chip
2)Using a cocktail stick, put a small amount of colour in the chip
3)Dry paint with heat gun/hair dryer
4)Using a cocktail stick, put a small amount of clear coat in the chip
5)Dry top coat with heat gun/hair dryer
6)Flat with 3000 wet/dry paper
7)Polish area with compound
8)Seal area with JS109
9)Apply Wax

Do we think 3000 paper is the right paper for the job and can someone recommend a compound suitable, preferably a sample pack as i won't need much? all to be used by hand. :cry:

Any advice greatly appreciated.
Currently pootling around in our family wagen, a Tiguan SEL 😂

Offline Steve30

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Re: Stone chip repair
« Reply #1 on: 16 February 2011, 22:25 »
I wont touch them myself mate, unless your really good with stone chips , it can look worse if you dont get it right ?? I would rather pay someone to do mine. :cool:

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Re: Stone chip repair
« Reply #2 on: 16 February 2011, 22:28 »
By the sounds of it Jimble won't be messing around, I use the corner of a business card to apply mine when needed, those brushes they give you are bloody useless  :rolleyes:

Offline Jimble

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Re: Stone chip repair
« Reply #3 on: 16 February 2011, 22:35 »
By the sounds of it Jimble won't be messing around, I use the corner of a business card to apply mine when needed, those brushes they give you are bloody useless  :rolleyes:
Agreed, they're huge!!  :shocked:
the stone chip is really small tbh and i reckon as long as i use the right products it should be ok, hopefully! :laugh:
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Offline Dan J

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Re: Stone chip repair
« Reply #4 on: 17 February 2011, 00:37 »
not perfect but heres some scratch and chip repair i did on my mk3 gti http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=113872.0
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Re: Stone chip repair
« Reply #5 on: 17 February 2011, 07:40 »
not perfect but heres some scratch and chip repair i did on my mk3 gti http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=113872.0

And your the pro round here  :grin: its a difficult job.

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Re: Stone chip repair
« Reply #6 on: 17 February 2011, 08:21 »
not perfect but heres some scratch and chip repair i did on my mk3 gti http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=113872.0

And your the pro round here  :grin: its a difficult job.

what are you saying? I saw the results in the flesh and they were very very good, much better than some 'professional' paid for jobs I have seen

one of my regulars has a passat that he paid £300 for 'stone chip' protection from the stealers... so far all i can see is that it involves him taking his car back every so often to have a blob of paint dripped onto his car... it looks terrible

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Re: Stone chip repair
« Reply #7 on: 17 February 2011, 09:55 »
not perfect but heres some scratch and chip repair i did on my mk3 gti http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=113872.0

My god your good, thats a very good crack at what looks like a horrible mess of scratches, hat off to you sir  :wink:

..........and here's me crying over a small chip on my disco's bonnet  :grin:

Guy, I'd bet my balls that Steve wasn't being malicious above  :rolleyes:

For £300 quid I'd expect a forcefield.

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Re: Stone chip repair
« Reply #8 on: 17 February 2011, 14:30 »
not perfect but heres some scratch and chip repair i did on my mk3 gti http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=113872.0

My god your good, thats a very good crack at what looks like a horrible mess of scratches, hat off to you sir  :wink:
..........and here's me crying over a small chip on my disco's bonnet  :grin:
Guy, I'd bet my balls that Steve wasn't being malicious above  :rolleyes:
For £300 quid I'd expect a forcefield.

You think thats pricey, check out this guys price lists!! lol

www.gleammachine.net

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Re: Stone chip repair
« Reply #9 on: 17 February 2011, 14:40 »
not perfect but heres some scratch and chip repair i did on my mk3 gti http://www.golfgtiforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=113872.0

My god your good, thats a very good crack at what looks like a horrible mess of scratches, hat off to you sir  :wink:
..........and here's me crying over a small chip on my disco's bonnet  :grin:
Guy, I'd bet my balls that Steve wasn't being malicious above  :rolleyes:
For £300 quid I'd expect a forcefield.

You think thats pricey, check out this guys price lists!! lol

www.gleammachine.net

his work is superb by all accounts... well worth it if you think of the value it could add to your car and the amount of work it takes