Recieved an email and thought all you car show stunnas whould find this interesting....

1. Purchase touch-up paint for your car. (For the correct paint, see your Owner Manual.)
2. Purchase a small amount of automotive clear coat.
3. Wash the area surrounding the paint chip and dry it thoroughly.
4. Using a small soft brush or Q-tip, clean out the paint chip.
5. Shake up the touch-up paint
6. Take a paper match and trim the non-lightable end to a point. Matches work well for applying paint.
7. Apply a small amount of paint to the chip. Try not to get any on the surrounding paint.
8. Allow the touch-up paint to dry thoroughly, then apply a layer of clear coat over the touch-up paint.
9. Allow the clear coat to dry then apply a second layer. You want to build the clear coat up higher than the surrounding paint.
10. Allow the paint to dry for 24 hours.
11. Using 1500-grit sand paper, lightly sand the area. Make sure there is no dirt on the car or the sand paper. This will cause scratches.
12. Using 2000-grit sand paper, sand the area again until smooth.
13. Finish the process using a fine polishing compound on a soft cloth. This will bring back the shine.
14. If you can still see swirl marks, try a car cleaner polish or a cleaner wax with a fine abrasive.
15. The paint chip should now be gone and very hard to see. Only you will know where it was.

 

is this for your car?

Will
-who needs to fix some chips...

 

Na, I tried, but it does not fill over ducktap to well

 

CW = you can use white-out to fill your chips...
Black = you can use a sharpie to fill in chips...
PY =

 

I just found this out the other day, but our cars do not have a clear coat on them.

 

front bumper is a wear item... it just gets worse when I try to repair the paintchips anyway.

 

could you use a toothpick too?

 

new paint job is the only way to go

 

PY has no clear coat?

 

That is correct. My PY ITR was hit last week in the front driver side fender. The body shop, last year, painted my noseskin 4 times trying to color match without blending it into the adjacent panels. They now know why they couldn't do it. All the paint mix programs show the paint as base/clear. Well they went to prep the door for blending 2 days ago and low and behold yellow paint came off. It ends up that PY is a single stage paint from Acura.

 

Well if you have alot of patience, get a toothpick and your cars touchup paint, and fill it in slightly, keep a little rag close by incase you put to much paint in so it doesn't look like *** and keep repeating and letting dry untill it looks pretty good, ive got some fo them to look almost gone like that...

 

Hmmm...sounds like someone bought a HELMS manual...I got the exact same e-mail.

 

me too

 

The only change that I would make to that, would be that I would soak the 1500 and 2000 grit paper in water over night and then sand the car using the paper while it was still wet. It will reduce the bump in the touch up while applying less scratches to the surrounding paint. To make it really smooth, wrap the sand paper around a small pink eraser (the little angled ones we all used in school) and use that as a tiny sanding block to keep your sanding even.