Paint chip repair question/HELP!!

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lpandroc

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Good morning....A few weeks ago I have repaired a few paint chips on my hood with Volvo touch up paint. I let it cure for a few weeks too...This morning...I broke out the 1500 grit and gently sanded down the pint chip bump flush with the surface...Now the actual chip is sort of off color...like a dark gret..not matching the silver. I used P21S polish to remove the hazing and it looks just as bad as having the chip?...The chip is now filled in but it still lokks crappy!!..Am I doing something wrong?...Is silver just a hard color to repair ..Any help???Thanks...Lance
 
I have yet to see a nice touch up of a lite silver paint.



Perhaps airbrushing would be the way to go.



It may look worse, but at least the spot is protected and you won't get a rust bubble forming in a year's time. :rolleyes:



Paco
 
I had had the same problem with silver.



When I used 2000 grit wet sandpaper a week later, it sort of dulled the colour.



However, a friend of mine has had good luck with langka on his silver bmw. Check out www.langka.com.
 
Silver is very difficult. My BMW has a few stone chips in the hood. I will take photos of the process and final result. I promise I can show you how to do it without seeing the touch-up.



db
 
I just did the whole routine on my car which is black ..fill...sand...polish with terrific results. Have you tried anything stronger than the p21s? It is more fillers than abrasives. I used a polish designed to get out 1500 grit sanding marks, and it came out great.
 
Langka didn't help with the color for me, still came out duller than the Reflex Silver Metallic paint,(light silver). If you do try Langka, just make sure to let the paint really dry before you try it. It gets frustrating having to keep doing it over and over if it's not completely dry! I am too afraid to try wet sanding but I think this is the key along with proper polishing of the haze afterwards.

DavidB is the man. Can't wait to see his touch up pics and methods!

Regards, Eric
 
Its not so much the sand marks or the hazing...but it makes the silver...well ...grey..like it adds a blackness to it??
 
i didn't have much luck with langka on my silver car - it actually looked darker and not shiny. someone told me it's because the metallic paint flakes tend to settle and it changes the look of the paint when you take the top layer off. anyway, i ended up hand filling with art brushes - it's not perfect, but at least you have to look to see it. probably wouldn't meet with most standards on this board, but at least protected the chip from rusting.
 
I just tried to fix some chips on my three part white pearl clear painted a8. It takes three paints for that mug-

white base, pearl stuff then clear. I got rained out mid job, so no photos....



The white was easy enough, and I did the lanka thing with that to level it- but the pearl paint layer does what you said your silver does when lanka hits it- it dulls. I guess the mica flakes are near the surface.



I got pretty good results with an airbrush- I tried a paasche h medium and a plastic hunk of crap from tiawan. The hunk of crap airbrush only cost 9 dollars, so it was doing good to work at all.. It's actually ok..

The plastic handle kinda disolved when I cleaned it with acetone tho..



It started raining before I really got things like I liked them, but so far it seems that you can fill the chip, then lanka it level, then to get the metallic shine or sheen or whatever right, top the repair off using an airbrush. The paasche h is the best airbrush for automotive touch-up paints I have tried so far- I've only tried three-.

Dixie airbrush has a paasch h set for 27 bucks- really good for a solid american-made brass tool.

For 9 dollars the tiawan hunk of crap does pretty good-- I think the brand is central pnumatic sold at harbor freight.. Both sets come with adaptors for use with air compressors or cans of air (propel).



Both brushes managed to spray unthinned factory touch up from a spray can. I sprayed it into the little jar. The brush-equipped paint is thicker usually, and may need some lacquer thinner added...



everything is a work in progress..
 
I had the same problem on our old silver Camry (RIP) and I think it is because silver is such a difficult color to match. Also... was the chip through the paint and into the primer/metal? If it was, did you put a drop of primer before the paint? If not, then the touched up paint has is reflecting the light differently than the paint with the primer underneath.
 
the chip didn't seem to be into the metal, and it seemed that there was a base coat that was intact. the color match is good, as is the refectivity, but as the paint has dried over time, it has thinned out and the chip is more visible. this seems to be a result of the difference in height rather than changes in color or reflection.



i like the idea of langka to level then airbrush to get the final sheen. curious to see how the final turns out.
 
DavidB said:
Silver is very difficult. My BMW has a few stone chips in the hood. I will take photos of the process and final result. I promise I can show you how to do it without seeing the touch-up.



db
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That would be great David. Look forward to it.

I too have a silver BMW and when I took it in to have the rear bumper ding fixed they decided to fix the hood chips at the same time withourt asking me.

I am not too thrilled with the results but I don't think I could have done any better. They are flat but the clor looks off at certain angles.
 
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