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touching up paint
timmeh - June 30th, 2008 at 10:59 PM

I'm currently rebuilding a VW and I got the whole car resprayed about a month ago,
anyway my dads friend was helping me install the engine and get it running and whilst doing this nocked a ratchet or something on the body so now I have two nice paint chips on my new paint :(

I have about a liter of the original paint left, whats the best way to touch it up? I'm thinking brush on the paint with a thick coat without thinners where the chip is, then should I "cut and polish" it back? and how do I go about this? is it possible to get it almost unnoticeable?

any suggestions would be great!
thanks!

Craig Torrens - June 30th, 2008 at 11:19 PM

PM Dasdubber

timmeh - June 30th, 2008 at 11:27 PM

okay will do

(tries to raise post count so i can pm)

Joel - July 1st, 2008 at 05:03 PM

hey tim its buggin_74 from samba good to see u found the place

5PL1TDCS10N - July 2nd, 2008 at 11:20 AM

Hi Tim,

Clean the chip with some wax & grease remover throughly first. Then lightly sand the edges so it blends more between layers and there is no hard edge. If you sand back to baremetal you will have to touch it up before paint with etch primer.
Paint the chip unthinned and make sure it is fairly proud off the surface. Wait a week and wet rub it with 1500 then 2000 paper. Buff and polish after.

Hope this helps-Wayne

timmeh - July 2nd, 2008 at 02:37 PM

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Originally posted by DUB74L
hey tim its buggin_74 from samba good to see u found the place

sure did, thanks again :)


Quote:

Hi Tim, Clean the chip with some wax & grease remover throughly first. Then lightly sand the edges so it blends more between layers and there is no hard edge. If you sand back to baremetal you will have to touch it up before paint with etch primer. Paint the chip unthinned and make sure it is fairly proud off the surface. Wait a week and wet rub it with 1500 then 2000 paper. Buff and polish after. Hope this helps-Wayne


Okay, i'll give this a shot :P