Stuffed a roof chip repair

Matell · 01-08-06, 06:51

Well this weekend I decided to detail my car. After claying I discovered a chip almost dead centre of my roof about the size of a fingernail clipping and more felt like it was through the primer.

I applied the factory touch-up paint (Honda) and gave it about 14hrs. At the same time I also went and added paint to most of the other little chips I found around the car.

I used the wet sanding technique detailed on this website and using 1200grit wet and dry, followed by 3M Perfect It III, Meg's Paint Cleaner, Megs Scratch-X, then wax was content with the results of all repairs except the roof. I made the mistake of not raising my eyelevel to directly above the repair area and fear I've majorly f'kd-up.

First I ended up with the appearance of two dents either side of the touch up paint as described in several posts ( http://autopia.org/forum/showthread....ighlight=gouge and more recently

http://autopia.org/forum/showthread.php?t=66047 )

I then went and painted more touch-up paint on, and after a few hours wet sanded again, (this time standing on a work stand and leaning over the roof, and still wasn't satisfied. So I tried again and this is the s*ity mess I've left myself with. I dared not wetsand, or polish with the 3M PI III any more because I couldn't be sure if the dark areas I was exposing was basecoat. I have a feeling it is.

I've ordered the Langka Kit mainly so I can remove all the touch up paint and see what damage I've caused, (plus I'll give it a go on all subsequent chips).

To my eye's it's as ugly, and as obvious of a bird bomb on the roof, so I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that a complete respray of the roof will be the only way to fix this. Is that the same opinion that you guys would have?

Cheers,

aaron33 · 01-08-06, 09:58

Matell, is that you? It's me, aaronng from ozhonda. Damn, the damage looks really bad. Wetsanding should be done using 2000grit, wet. I have langka in my car as well. Let me know how your repair goes.

Matell · 01-08-06, 11:11

Yeah it's me. I'm regretting not using a finer grade now, but nevermind. I've got a few quotes around the $300 mark. I've spent more on toys for the car than that, but I'm still hoping it won't need a respray.

Guess one lives and learns, and it goes to show that debris from vehicles doesn't just impact the front of cars.

aaron33 · 01-08-06, 11:16

All the best in the respray. Remember that you cannot wax the area for the first 2 months after respraying.

PadawanPrime · 01-13-06, 01:23

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Originally Posted by Matell

I then went and painted more touch-up paint on, and after a few hours wet sanded again, (this time standing on a work stand and leaning over the roof, and still wasn't satisfied. So I tried again and this is the s*ity mess I've left myself with. I dared not wetsand, or polish with the 3M PI III any more because I couldn't be sure if the dark areas I was exposing was basecoat. I have a feeling it is.

I've ordered the Langka Kit mainly so I can remove all the touch up paint and see what damage I've caused, (plus I'll give it a go on all subsequent chips).

To my eye's it's as ugly, and as obvious of a bird bomb on the roof, so I'm pretty much resigned to the fact that a complete respray of the roof will be the only way to fix this. Is that the same opinion that you guys would have?

Cheers,

Wow, this should be the new advertisement for Langka.

Wet Sanding + soft Honda paint =

Peace.