Langka on a Spec Blue (Rock Chips, BEGONE!)

[mkeomec]

Sup all,

I have some general questions about repairing rock chips.

I have a spec blue, and the chips were getting out of hand, so I went to the dealership, bought some touch up paint, ordered langka, and went to work on my hood.

I washed it off first, then clay barred it.
Off-topic question: does clay barring remove wax?

Anyways, after that, i applied the touch up paint to the chips and waited 45 mins, then i notcied the paint kinda shrunk into the chips, so i applied another layer. I waited like 2 hours before trying langka. After applying it and rubbing with the t-shirt and glorified "buffering" credit card, i noticed the color didn't really match. I could tell by looking at my t-shirt that langka was removing paint, but the color looked really dull. It was flush with the surface, i ran my finger over it with a latex glove, but the "repaired" chip looks almost greyish. I'm at a loss of what to do next. It seems that langka is reacting with the paint to alter the color a bit.
I wonder if anyone else has tried it on a spec blue or dark colored car. I read somewhere that the solution is to apply a really fine layer after using langka to get the correct color.

A rather stupid thing i did was try to clay bar the blob with langka, which didn't do anything, but i noticed that when the surface was wet, then the color was ok and i couldn't tell there was a chip at all. I'm wondering if i just use polish and wax if that'll work....

any tips? thanks

[SilverRide]

OK, I use Langka also.
What I`ve found is while Langka will not make the repair "disapear" it will make it less noticable.

Yes, it will make the repair "dull" as you found out.
So what I do is, after I get the repair to my liking with Langka, (as you described) I verry carefully add a final coat of touch up paint as a gloss coat with out using Langka. This results in a better repair than if you just use touch up paint alone.

[mkeomec]

I see,

Another thing I was thinking was applying a clear coat after using langka. Under water, the chip isn't dull at all, you can't even tell it's there. So I'm thinking that the color is being affected, it's the reflectiveness of the touch up paint. Unfortunately, I have to go buy some clear coat and I don't have time to do it until next week, so I just waxed it...

For sure, langka makes the chip less noticable, But I kept hearing all these rave reviews about it, i guess i was expecting more. oh well, dull blue is much better than bare metal white on my hood.

[Acilec]

any sites where I can order Langka?

[mkeomec]

only one that i'm aware of,

www.langka.com

[uansari]

The method that I have come up with after several experiments, is to underfill the chip with the touch up paint...just enough to form an even layerso you don't see the bare metal.

Then I overfill it with clearcoat. Wait about 4-5 days and use the Langka to smooth it out. The clearcoat dulls a little, but it looks much better than if the touch up paint was dulled.

My car is black, btw, so it's harder to get it to work. Just be patient.

Usman

[celica girl]

Thanks for the tips... I had the same problems as mkeomec