Stone Chip Repairs

[AR-CoolC]

This weekend, it was time to tackle the stone chips on the front of my Leon. As it’s a daily driver with 15000 miles on the clock after less than 5 months, and black, you can guess the state the leading edges were in. Unfortunately I couldn’t get a good picture of the chips.



So I gathered up the tools required.

1 x pot of paint

1 x pot of lacquer (BMW touch up)

1 x sanding block

Sanding petals – self adhesive ultra fine grade

Some ketchup pots from a local fast food restaurant







I washed the car, and clayed the front end with Chemical Guy’s clay. Then used acetone to make sure all wax etc was removed from the chips.

Then using a cocktail stick set about filling the chips.









You can just make out the filled in chips. It was spitting with rain at this point which made finding the chips to fill them very difficult, so using a bit of improvisation I erected the garden parasol over the front right corner of the car and decided to concentrate on that part.



So it time to sand down the paint blobs. Scary stuff.













Time to crack out the PC, and after taping off the area with Tesa 4308 tape, I set too with Chemical guy’s Laser Buff on a 4� light cut pad (Wolfgang).

Speed 2 to spread, speed 4 using light pressure to try and work the Laser Buff as long as possible, and then a final pass on speed 6. Working and area about 30cm square at a time.



The results.









Then a quick waz over with Chemical Guy’s top sealant with 3 x carnauba









Lessons of the day.

Don’t attempt a wet sanding job on rainy days unless you have cover

Let the wet and dry do all the work, I found it worked best using the coarser grade petals and just use the weight of the block.

Laser Buff is ace stuff!

[bineabble]

How did you apply the paint?

[AR-CoolC]

Using a cocktail stick.

Dip the stick in the paint so that there is just the smallest drop of paint on the end, and place right in the middle of the chip. This means you can get the paint right into the chip rather than in and around.

[awahl63]

Nice job...how do you like your CG stuff

[slvr-bullet]

Ok, I wouldn`t mind trying this out myself because my hood is riddled with stone chips.



You used the touch up paint to fill in the chips with a cocktail stick, then sanded it and then buffed it out. What was the pot of paint, ketchup pots and sanding block for? What grit of sand paper did you use?