Hiding hood "chips"?

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dbvegeta39

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I’m having a similar problem to the one here. Over this past winter my car seems to have accumulated 100’s of very small “chips� I call them chips for lack of a better work, they are SMALL. Well early this spring looked over my car before its major spring cleaning and only noticed a few of them. That is until I polished the hood. It would seem that the polish filled these little chips and brought out all the smaller ones. I figured that the polish could last forever and would have to wear off. Well it hasn’t. What can remove/hide these marks? I’ve heard about detailing clay, which I will try this weekend will this work? I only need them gone until I have my clear bra put on. I’m afraid I don’t have any pics right now since it’s to dark out right now. I can take them later if they would help. Any help would be appreciated.
 
Chips are going to require touch-up paint. Get a small bottle from your dealership, a pen from Paintscratch.com, or the Duplicolor 2 in 1 ScratchFix pen/brush combo. Duplicolor also sells a kit with the primer and clear coat, along with some fine sandpaper and finishing compound. It's best to use both, for a proper job.



If you have the ability, you may also want to try applying the paint with an airbrush. I've never used that method, but it's supposed to be great, especially if there are a lot of chips.



For the best method of actually performing the repair, do a search, here, as there are many threads describing the process.



Good Luck.
 
The thing is that these 'chips' for lack of a better work are very small not even through the clearcoat, it looks almost looks like the hood is always dusty. I'm charging the batterys on my camera now for pics. basicly I just want to clean the polish out of the chips if possible so it dosn't look like crap when the clearbra is put on. thanks
 
here are the pics. mostly focusing on fixing the smaller chips. Not the end of the world but it sux... the car is less then a year old. :(

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Yeah. That really sucks. My girlfriend's car is in need of a repaint because of a lot of chips like that, and some clearcoat failure. Of course it's 12 years old. I was just saying that my next car is definitely getting the 3M clear bra within a week of me buying it.



For those kinds of chips, I'd really think that an air-brush touch up would be in order. If you're just wanting to strip the wax out of them, I'd go for some Dupont Prepsol, or another wax stripper. They say alcohol will do fine, but the stuff made for it is readily available near the touch-up paints in any auto parts store or paint and body shop.
 
I have a black car and have quite a number of these pin ***** (excuse the lanquage!) size dots on the hood. It was pretty much free of these marks until one day I got trapped behind a semi going 110KM/hr on the highway. There was just enough sand on the road to sandblast the car for about 30 seconds until I pulled back and let him get ahead. Point is that I think these are just very very small sand chips (as opposed to rock chips). I think you pick them up travelling fast and get blasted by sand or dirt from a car or truck ahaead of you. I think the sand needs considerable velocity to make this happen.



On a couple of my larger, more noticable pn head size marks I have had some success using a fine point, permanent black marker and just lightly touching it to the marks. It dissapears. I then put another coat of zaino over top to make sure it does not wear off too quickly. This method is especialy effective on my black painted plastic bumpers.
 
Blue WRX? I remember reading in a car mag's long term follow up that they pretty much loved the car except for all the hood chips.



Mine are getting kind of bad on my T/A. I didn't notice them until I did my own first detail last summer, and they grabbed the polish/wax and are all noticable. For me, I don't think the alcohol mix would do much good because I'd have to put a top coat of wax over it. Maybe I'll try the fine tip marker idea.



I'm highly considering taking the bumper cover off, having it re-shot over the winter and having the 3m Clear Bra installed.
 
LOL yeah its a wrx. This past winter there was more sand on the road then snow. i guess i will try the alcohol or wax stripper this weekend and take it from there. If that dosnt work i will try to find a marker that matches the paint. thanks for everyones help
 
I have a silver 2002 WRX, and the only way to prevent this damage from happening is applying a clear bra film (3M scotchcal, Avery, Lumar, etc) when the car is new.



I've had my WRX for 3 years and there isn't a single chip or defect on the hood and bumper. Best investment for the notoriously poor Subaru paint.



Dean



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