I have had this for well over a year (probably two) and surprisingly it has not grown/spread at all. I'd like to get to it sooner, rather than later before my luck runs out and it possibly spreads. I don't have any touch up paint yet, but would like your thoughts on best way to go about this. I am not expecting perfection first time around, but am hopeful for improvement.

 

Best thing to do would be just to trade it in. Car is done for.

 

BMW or Mazda is the next logical step.

 

If you can get the touch up thats a bottle with a brush not the pen. Take rubbing alcohol on a Q-tip and clean out the chip. Dab the paint "IN" the chip not all over it . Do this a few times a few hours apart till the dried paint comes up to the level of the original paint.

 

What can be done for...a thousand rock chips. Roads in NJ ate the worst with all of the construction all over the place.
If I tried the touch up thing, my car would be full of dimples.
Rocks have done so much damage all over my car it's pathetic.

 

Repaint then bra or clear bra

 

Stupid me...why didn't I think of this before?


Thanks, I will look into that and report back once I find the touch up paint.



I know what you mean. I have plenty on my front bumper and some on my hood. This one is the deepest chip, so I'd like to improve if I can

 

Try to clean that bit of rust out of it before painting. Its going to be hard for the touch up paint to match the pearl exactly, but Im sure you can make it look better then it does now.

And x2 on the front end. Mine is horrible. Im thinking about having my front bumper resprayed this summer some time.

 

Couldnt agree more.

 

Actually acura has changed the touch paint thingies now, they come with a pen and a brush just have to twist off to use the brush now.

But it cost me like 8 bucks for my color.

 

I have no idea where it is, but there used to be an AWESOME writeup on how to completely remove rock chips from paint.

A little cleaning, a little paint, a little wetsanding, a little paint, a little sanding, etc...

Talked about using a hole puncher to punch out 2500 grit paper to place on the end of a pencil eraser and using an artists brush or toothpick to "fill" the chip instead of swiping it with a brush.

 

What do you mean, your color???



Also, heres a pretty good writeup for using touchup paint.

http://www.autopia.org/forum/click-b...-%3D-owie.html

 

lol I knew you'd say that

Anthracite...

still laughing at that post.