stone chips- best way to fix? melbourne recommendations?

[911virgin]

hi all

 

any expert advices gratefully accepted!

 

 

[GTP911]

Larry from Drive Clean goes into detail on options for stone chip touchups, worth the view: Paint Chip Touch-up -- /DRIVE CLEAN - Bing video

[rminc]

4 hours ago, 911virgin said:

hi all

 

any expert advices gratefully accepted!

 

 

All depends how good of a job you want. 

Quick repair would be clean with isopropyl alcohol. Apply touch up paint. 

You can keep going with things like sanding etc. 

[TwoHeadsTas]

7 minutes ago, rminc said:

All depends how good of a job you want. 

Quick repair would be clean with isopropyl alcohol. Apply touch up paint. 

You can keep going with things like sanding etc. 

Have a look for the thread on Dr Colourchip, fairly recent.  I've used with reasonable success, I think I'm happier using that than normal touchup paint which becomes permanent very quickly 🙂 

[icu_jimmy]

+1 Dr Colourchip. Much more likely of a better result than many other methods.

[sjm]

+2 Dr Colorchip. Use it on my Seal Grey 997. Distributor in Queensland too. 

[911virgin]

thanks people!

[CoSo]

Coming back to this topic, would people accept a handful of stone chips or get them professionally repaired before doing a full detail/paint protection?

There seems to be some hesitation that repainting and matching in can make it look worse than just leaving it alone - if I try and get a high end detailer to do the work instead of just any regular smash repairer, would it still be very noticeable or just on paint gauges?

[tomo]

6 hours ago, CoSo said:

Coming back to this topic, would people accept a handful of stone chips or get them professionally repaired before doing a full detail/paint protection?

There seems to be some hesitation that repainting and matching in can make it look worse than just leaving it alone - if I try and get a high end detailer to do the work instead of just any regular smash repairer, would it still be very noticeable or just on paint gauges?

Bit  like looking at a Sheila @CoSo best to meet them before they have been to the body shop .

[Russ]

Dr Colourchip is very good, is easy to apply and blends in really well (but I can usually still see them). Touch-up paint is worse and really only good if you want to protect the bit with missing paint.

Fluid pens are the go-to if you want to put work/effort in (and you still need to get your paint match just right), or have someone professionally do it (it's just time-consuming). Larry at Ammo NYC had a good video on a 911:

 

[TwoHeadsTas]

5 hours ago, Russ said:

Dr Colourchip is very good, is easy to apply and blends in really well (but I can usually still see them). Touch-up paint is worse and really only good if you want to protect the bit with missing paint.

Fluid pens are the go-to if you want to put work/effort in (and you still need to get your paint match just right), or have someone professionally do it (it's just time-consuming). Larry at Ammo NYC had a good video on a 911:

 

Agree on Dr Colourchip.....