Can you fill a paint chip with touch up paint, sand it flat after it dries and buff it? Find out in this brief video testing this idea or paint chip hack. Tools and materials listed below:
*****Paint: paint-kit/
*****Magnifier Glasses:
*****Eagle Sanding Products:
***** Wet Sandpaper: 3M 400 grit
*****Buffer:
*****Buffing Pad:
*****Buffing Compound:
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Great job! Thanks for your practical paint repair tips for Common Folks- You earned my subscription-
no clear coat?
For what it is it came out alright. Looks better than a chip. If haters want perfection then spend the $$$ and get the respray done. Thanks for sharing your upload it's appreciated by those of us curious to try
There's actually a decent tool for filling chips – called a Fine Line Painting Pen. It really helps to not over-fill the chip – less risk of cutting through the paint around the chip when you're blocking and buffing.
I couldn't help but wonder why you did not tackle the chips on the edge of the door at the same time.
Also, any follow up recommended regarding clear coat? Thanks.
Yeah, you're correct. The new touch-up paint will usually be softer than the original, and exact color matching is a challenge, especially with metallic paints where the size of the metallic flakes vary and also affect the appearance. Filling as accurately as possible and as level as possible with the original paint saves a lot of sanding. And that also reduces the sanding pressure required and consequently reduces occurrence of deeper sanding scratches within the repair area, as well as reducing "melting" of metallic flakes (in metallic paints) due to excess sanding friction which can cast the repair paint color with a grayish hue. I found that wet sanding by hand with 600 grit followed by 2000 grit is the perfect combination. Then follow by hand-buffing with Meguiar' Swirl Remover 2.0, which works surprisingly fast even by hand because this product is just so effective. Overall this method works best from my personal experience, and the results are better than repainting an entire panel, since that usually results in the entire panel color not quite matching neighboring panels. That's visibly far worse than a small paint chip touch-up repair, and is also far more time-consuming and expensive.
I have this exact problem in white on a fully restored 67 Bonneville convertible. Thanks!
That's the same color too! Arctic white.