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Craig FL
| | Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2001 - 4:33 pm: | |
I've never had any luck trying to "buff down" the level of the added paint. I try to carefully build it up to the regular level or maybe slightly higher. Mirror glaze compound will only get rid of swirl marks and put on a nice shine. I've seen rookies buff their car down to the primer by accident. I stay away from anything more abrasive than mirror glaze-- I just don't have the touch.... |
Rob Lay (Rob328gts)
| | Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2001 - 12:02 pm: | |
I'm going through this as well. I got some touch up paint and filled in a chip. It looks great, but is still a little recessed. I guess I just need to keep adding layers until it's even. Do you use a buffer tool or something when it goes over the level you want? |
CraigFL
| | Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2001 - 9:34 am: | |
Personally I have always touched up my paint chips. I found that if you get the correct paint, clean first, and dab a small drop of paint in the chip & let dry you can build up to the level of the old paint after two or three times. If you're real careful, you almost don't need to do any finishing -- except for maybe a mirror glaze buffing. |
Wang
| | Posted on Sunday, January 07, 2001 - 4:33 am: | |
Depends on the state of the paint of the whole car. If the paint still looks great then I would be tempted to just touch-up until a later date when I would do a full respray. Thats how I am dealing with my stone chips for the time being. |
sml
| | Posted on Saturday, January 06, 2001 - 6:46 pm: | |
I have a few chips in the paint caused by road-stones and a few on the door jams (before I bought it). Should I touch-up with paint or leave alone? |
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