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Old Jun 11, 2014 | 12:37 AM
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Default Re: Fixing chips in the paint

Originally Posted by amx1397
Here is my story, and as pal harvy would say here's the rest of the story.

I spoke to my painter about removing scratches and chips,,after 5 min. of telling me how he was going to do it. I told him i would bring my other car to try it first.
my wife's Mustang is dark gray,
so i get there and he mixed about 1oz of the Mustang color and 1oz of clear, mixed it for a few seconds, then took a small paint stick brush (about the size of a match stick) and put a drop in the 4 chips i had it was left with a bubble on it , and on a scratch about 5" long he took a small syringe and filled it about 1/2 full, then filled the scratch, it too was over filled, then he looked at me asd said see you in two to three days days.

I got back to his shop on day 3
he took our a new razor blade and some very thin masking tape, taped the outer edge just like in the video, he then started to scrap away the hump on the chip spot,,, I stopped him and ask you were going to do that to my crossfire, he laughed and said yep, well he got it down level with the rest of the paint, used 1600 (I THINK)wet sand paper,, put some polishing compound on it and buffed it out by hand , then some polish (by hand again, then used a elect polisher,, did the same on the others and the scratch,, when he finished i could not find where any of the chips or the scratch was, took my crossfire to him a few days later he fixed 7 chips some on the hood ,a few on the finder, and he let me do two of them you can see where i did them but you can not find where the ones he fixed were.he told me you have to use clear and the car color and you don't have to clear it when done. he charged me $5.00 per chip and $7.00 for the scratch, for both cars i paid $50.00 because he said the mustang was my test car.,
this scared the s*** out of me,, thinking my paint was ruined,, but it worked. jim
Did he clean the chips? With any polish in the chip I think the paint would not adhere at all. I tried this on my Old Crossfire once without using the tape and the paint pulled out of the chips.
 
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