paint chips

[mangoboy7]

How do u guys fix paint chipping? I do quite a bit of highway driving though michigan roads (some of the worst in the country). I get quite a few of these chips from the winter salts and from the pebbles on the freeway. Of course i use toyota touch up paint, but its so sloppy and i never stay within the chip as hard as i try. Any way to smooth that out?

[grunt]

wait till you get enough chips and then get a paint job

[bme107]

Use a toothpick to apply the paint. You will have much better control over it and the paint drop will not be as big as the applicator brush is.

To smooth it out you can get very fine wet sand paper and sand the area smoothing it into the surrounding paint. Then use a few steps of polishing compound to smooth out the sanding marks and then polish and wax the area as normal. I would suggest seeing a professional for some suggestions first.

[rocket celica]

Originally posted by bme107

To smooth it out you can get very fine wet sand paper


are you kidding me? don't ever use no sandpaper. you gonna mess up the paint.

[bme107]

The point of the sand paper is to smooth out the gobs of paint that occur at touch up spots. You don't do the whole panel just a light 1" square around the spot. If you don't feel confident in your abilities then take it to a professional. They will most likely take some fine wet sandpaper to it.

[theotherredline]

bme107 is correct, that is the best way to do it. wet sanding comes out good if you know what you are doing

[GTS-Racer]

Just mask of the surrounding area around the chip and wetsand the touch'd up spot and polish polish and polish

[REdOX]

Here's what I do:

get a toothpick and dull the tip a bit by rubbing it against some sandpaper or even a concrete sidewalk.
Dip the tip in a bit of the paint and blow on it once to make it start the drying process. Then use a paper towel and poke it with the toothpick making sure you get a little patch of fibre from the paper towel.

Surprise.. you just now built yourself a very very small paintbrush. Use it to fill in the chips.

[WRENCHHEAD]

Originally posted by rocket celica



are you kidding me? don't ever use no sandpaper. you gonna mess up the paint.


you're not thinking of regular sand paper right??? they're talking about using like 1000 grit paper to smooth and blend the touch up paint to the surrounding paint so it's not a dried up blob sitting out in the open.

[mangoboy7]

Any have know any websites that sorta show you how to use the wetsand or should i just practice on something else?

[theotherredline]

practice makes perfect. try doing a search on myclassiccar.com I think thats the right address, but they did a segment on that awhile ago, so their webpage might have it. Again, I am not sure if that is the right web address, but now you have 1 lead.

[rocket celica]

how about this? a rubbing compound or polishing compund?
and follow up with wax. won't that smooth out the paint blob u created ?

[bme107]

Originally posted by rocket celica
how about this? a rubbing compound or polishing compund?
and follow up with wax. won't that smooth out the paint blob u created ?
Yes it will. But depending on how bad the surface is it may be faster to start with the 2500 grit wet sanding and then move on to polishing compound if you are doing it all by hand. If you are going to use a machine then just the compounds may be sufficient. Be careful with machines! You can burn right through the paint if you are not careful.

[pinoyracer]

If u wanna wet sand, the quicker and more easier thing to do is get a roto zip and use the sander tip, then after that, use the polisher tip and apply touch up paint then wax it. It's more acurate and more faster.

[Silver-toy]

I highly recommend that you talk to a pro first, someone that has never wetsanded can screw there paintjob bad. Professionals and folks in the showcar biz usually get there entire car wetsanded after a fresh paint job. It is used to get rid of the orange peel effect you get after a new paint job. If done right your paint job will turn out mirror like. Okay so I just wondered off the subject but you get the idea. haha

Just be careful

Josh

[SchumiFerrari]

I feel for you man... I'm super close to Detroit so I drive through construction no matter where I go(It's that damn rock salt in winter, eats the cement) As much as I hate to say it, get yourself a bra if u do a lot of Highway driving... just make sure you put a good coat of wax on and remove the bra and wash underneath often... It will help a ton... just do what I said and wash a lot, cuz I rusted through the hood on my old ride cuz it wasn't washed enough...