Front End Nicks

www.paintscratch.com

You can buy a touch up bottle for your car and brush in the chips. Remember you are applying a tiny amount of paint so it is bearly noticable. Chips are part of life, if you don't want them park the car.

 

There are also some interesting products to help avoid the chips in the first place. There is a new product some of the Northwest guys are trying out that looks pretty promising. Check it out... http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42714

 

The Langka stuff works really good

http://www.langka.com/

 

Agreed. But it works better on non-metallics than metallics.

btw, a tip for metallic paint repair using Langka is to apply a thin layer of the metallic then fill with clear.

 

Once you get your chips repaired, I really suggest getting a product called "invisi-shield". You will probably check around the paint shops and see who offers this. Its a clear coat that is super hard. I had a huge rock, yes I saw it because it was so big, smack the front end of my car and there was only a hairline crack in the clear coat, no paint missing so you can't see it uless you wax the car. I just take a tooth brush and clean the groove and its invisible again.

 

I've got a number of pin-head sized chips up front that the PaintScratch pen would work well for. For this reason, am thinking going with the PaintScratch product, unless people advocate superior results with Langka.

BTW, for Langka products, I understand that if we order through the following link, that they will end up making a donation to the Ferrari Club.

 

The Langka is used in addition to paint and not instead of paint, Just buy the paint you think will do the best job and apply it to the chip by whatever method you like, being sure to leave excess. When it dries you then use the langka which removes excess paint. The theory is it makes the new paint surface flush with the old and so improves the match. My results have been so so, but worth using.

 

Joe....save this for future reference: www.google.com you can find anything with this search engine. In the mean time, this is where to get your touch up paint: http://www.paintscratch.com/

 

That's a good point Paul. Langka does not supply the actual paint, which you have to source from elsewhere. With PaintScratch, you actually get the paint included along with the application materials and clearcoat. They have a number of Ferrari color's on their site.

I haven't ordered either product yet b/c I have been busy at the office, and I also wanted to see the video on the Langka site. I DO know that I don't want to deal with the hassles of trying to get a paint that will match Rosso Corsa from elsewhere, which is why I am leaning towards PaintScratch. Unless I note something special in the Langka video's which I will watch this evening, I plan on ordering the PaintScratch materials.

 

The down side to paint scratch's product is that the felt-tip applicator pens dry up in reasonably short time, so you need to use them promptly. It's no big expense, but you'd be hard pressed to use the same one at both ends of the driving season. I found that a small bottle of custom touch-up paint from my local restoration shop works just as well and lasts a lot longer.