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Dylan1

Dylan1

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this may be a stupid question.....!!
my very lovely 993 which i have had for 3 funfilled months went on holiday to norfolk in august and had a great time -really involving enjoyable drives with not much traffic-but to my horror when i got home discovered loads of tiny stone chips on the front which definately werent there when i left-obviuosly some poor road surfaces and some gravel kicked up-now I will probably have to get a respray eventually before i sell(long way off!)but is there any way of minimising the effect-it wouldnt look so bad of course if the car wasnt metallic black and shiny!!but that IS my favourite colour.i dont want to have blobs of touchup obviuosly .

any ideas??please!
 
There are two methods where I have had limited success but it is a difficult problem.

1. Try using a coloured polish that leaves a black residue in the smaller chips. Whilst this will need regular applying to keep it decent it is a cheap but limited improvement.

2. Buy a spray can of the correct paint and after thoroughly agitating to mix paint spray a little into the lid and use a cocktail stick to apply a tiny dot of paint to the chip. Build up if necessary and polish up once thoroughly dry. Don't be tempted to use a stick of touch up paint as it is too thick unless you dilute with thinners first.

As we all know a respray of the front is the only real solution - but you could damage it again with one enthusiastic drive. It's endless unless you can learn to live with it being as "good as you can get it."

Best Regards

JM
 
I;ve used Chipex in the past... with some pretty good results.

www.chipex.co.uk

Colour matched paint, and the ability to "flatten" the bump, so better than the standard touch up paint.

Ta

TOm
 
Its not only stone chips but little bugs and flies at "over 65mph" on the motorway. I schedule paintwork in as regular maintenance: these water based paints seem much more porous than the old two packs+ hard-as-nails lacquer!

Take care,


Bert
 
many thanks for all the suggestions-i suspect the prev owner used one or all the above as i doubt i wouldve managed to get so many chips at one go (even with such a spirited drive!)and as i didnt notice at purchase it must have been pretty good,or i was wearing my remarkably rose tinited specs!!

i will give a try at the weekend

once again thanks for all suggestions

dylan
 
I've been thinking of posting a related question for a while....

how long do other "long term owners" leave it between front end resprays?

Seems to me that as soon as you have done the job you will get another chip.[:mad:] But it cannot be left for ever.... My car was perfect 4 years ago when I acquired it, 30k miles later I have 3 or 4 bad chips (5mm diameter), and more than a dozen smaller ones. They show up really bad on black paint. I really need PU, bonnet and both wings doing....but do I wait until next spring? Then will I put it off longer?

I've just tried a Chipex kit on my campervan (so it's not a speed-related problem[8|]) and it worked well on small chips (much better than using a touch-up brush - they really are just about invisible) - but on one large chip it goes no where near the quality I want (even on the van!). It is better than not doing it - ie it does not make it look worse - but the shape of the chip is still clear when you look at the area.

So, if you own a car for, say, 10 years, how often do you pay for a front end respray?
 
good point mark,and thanks for more feedback on chipex-i looked it up yestedray and got schwarz on the paint tyoe but couldnt work out which of 3 schwartz to choose??my paint code was lj944 which didnt match any of the choices-does it make much difference which i plump for??
 
Mine is Schwartz too - but the code is A1. When I got the rear PU sprayed a while ago the guy did have trouble converting it to a "water based paint code".

My camper's code is not on their web site either - but Johnny (johnny@chipex.co.uk) sorted me out from the year and colour name.
 
thanks for all the advice-i spoke to the friendly bloke at chipex who is sending the kit in post

bw
dylan

to follow up on marks point(almost)i have put the 993 in for a 24 k service at JZM as it has had only6-12k for 4 yrs and unsurprisingly they unearthed lots of things which COULD have been replaced due to being 14 yrs old!!but suggested just wait and monitor-where do you guys atnd on such things-i could easily spend 5-10k on replacing all these things ,but is it best just to wait and see......probably my gut instinct-if it aint completely broke dont fix it!!??
 
thanks john i will get the list when i collect the car tomorrow post service

cheers
dylan
 
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