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elliotw

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I have white stone chips on the bonnet of my Boxster. I assume the chip repair companies are no good - although please let me know if anyone has had any experience.

How much it would be to have a repaint of the bonnet/rest of car? Where is good to go? Would not do it if it's too expensive.

Once it's repainted I would want to protect the new paintwork. Any tips on how best to do this and pricing?

Cheers

Elliot
 
Paintwork is midnight blue, not white. The chips on the paintwork show up as lots of white marks on the blue paint.[:(]
 
So are the 'white' spots wax or the primer underneath?

btw The primer on my orange car is cream coloured but I would have thought that the primer on blue is a darker colour.
 
The white spots must be the primer underneath. Not wax as immediately after I had the car detailed 6mths the spots were showing very clear - and I'm guessing the detailer would have fixed it if it was just wax. I can remember thinking there was dust on the bonnet when I initially went to view my just detailed car (think detailing has the negative of making the chips more pronounced as everything else is so sparkly and shiny!). From a distance it looks like dandruff!
 
If the white spots were not there before your deatail and only appeared after it sounds like its wax or polish in small chips.If thats the case the product or detailer
should be avoided in future.
Or if the car had stone chips touched in before the detail they could have been snicked off if a machine polisher was used.They can be harsh if wrong pad or grade of polish are used.
You did not say whether it had been machined?
If its just the product used that has made the chips stand out you can try to clay
the bonnet to see if it will removed the polish or wax used things improve things.
Then used a quality paint cleanser and a quality wax to seal things in again.
Cliff.
 
I think the stone chips were there before the detailing - but I think the detailing made them stick out more because the detailed paintwork looked so good.

Not sure if a machine was used for detailing. I used AutoFinesse which I think has fairly good reviews - I was happy with the quality of the detailed paintwork, just disappointed about the stone chips. The guy did warn me that he couldn't get rid of stone chips prior to doing the work, so he did give me a fair warning. Pretty certain it wasn't anything he did.

I wouldn't feel confident fixing the job myself - I'd be worried I'd end up screwing it up even more!

I have heard that Approved Porsche dealers do a respray of the bonnet of all second hand Porsches (is this true?) because stone chips are such a problem. So I'm guessing it's not a simple fix - at least nothing I can do.
 
If your car is under a Porsche warranty, you'll almost certainly need to use an approved Porsche repair centre. Otherwise, any decent local paint & body shop should be able to re-spray the bonnet. Midnight Blue is one of the easier colours to match. From recent experience, I'd think you'd be looking at at least £250 to prepare, denib and repaint.

If your car is mint and you want to keep it that way, applying paint protection film to the front end and bonnet might be the way forward. 3M's VentureShield is reputedly the most effective and durable films and might be worth checking out. It ain't cheap though and VentureShield installers typically charge around £500-£600 for a front end and bonnet.
 
The only way to get the job done properly is to have the area that is badly chipped resprayed. When you car goes to the body shop take the following action to avoid future stone chips showing up like a sore thumb. Why don't silver cars show stone chips like dark blue cars or reds etc? Its all down to the colour of the primer. Silver cars have grey or silver primer - as do all cars. So if your car is dark blue ask your spray shop man to add some of the top coat colour to the primer. Then next time you have a stone chip on the Dark Blue paint it wont show up like a silver sixpence!
You blue primer should see to that! [;)]
 
Ah yes all is clear now.
They were there before Detail work and chips noted.
As you say they are more visable now because of the car looking good.
Your only option is if you can not live with the chips is a repaint
There are plenty of people able to do this go by recomendation.
Dark blues are the worst offenders for showing marks affraid to say.
 
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