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Chip Repair
I had a nasty 1" scrape on the side of my Ruby Red Cayman (from dropping the hose) as well as a couple of minor chips on the hood. I tried Dr. Colorchip on it and was not happy. It didn't work on the scrape at all (not their fault, they don't claim it does) but it also didn't work very well on the hood, either. Ended up using factory touchup with "Qixx" (sp?) that I bought at an auto parts store and got beautiful results. I built up the scrape and chips by touching them up about three times until the touchup was higher than the surrounding paint (waiting a day in between) then let everything cure for a week. Then I took the extremely fine-grit sandpaper from the Qixx kit and glued it onto the eraser end of a new pencil. I then wet-sanded directly on the touchup until it brought the repair back down to the level of the paint (you want to be careful here that you aren't sanding your original paint, hence using the pencil). Then used the two kinds of polish in the Qixx kit and a fresh wax, and now you cannot see any of the previous damage unless you look for it and use a magnifying glass. No need for clear-coat although I guess you could. I have never used any kind of mechanical polisher on my car. This was obviously extremely time-consuming but I would just work on it for 15 minutes a day on weekdays after getting home from work, and it was totally complete in two weeks.
Anybody need Dr. Colorchip in "Ruby Red," I have some for sale cheap.
Last edited by johnsimion; 12-05-2011 at 05:35 AM.
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