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Title: Touch up stick or Colour polish ?
Post by: djm1964 on 08 April 2009, 18:57:54
Been out doing my one panel a night again ;) , I have just finished the bonnet , after cutting and polishing for two hours , I have noticed a few  stone chips that were just covered in road "film" before I started. So what would you do ? Use a coloured polish or paint stick to try and rectify the problem. Any advice would be very gratful as always

Take care

Dave :y
Title: Re: Touch up stick or Colour polish ?
Post by: Jimbob on 08 April 2009, 19:59:13
Ive had quite good results on slight chips / scratches on a bugandy car with colour magic coloured polish
Title: Re: Touch up stick or Colour polish ?
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 08 April 2009, 20:03:05
Paint....you need a proper long lasting coating.

Genuine Vx touchup, a very fine brush (or even a cocktail stick) and a dab of thinners to thin the paint down.

Polish will only give a very short term fix and you need to be sealing the metalwork permanently
Title: Re: Touch up stick or Colour polish ?
Post by: miggcddave on 08 April 2009, 20:05:58
i would use a touch up stick its permenant . polish is only temp :y im doing my stone chips and going to use the stick  :y
Title: Re: Touch up stick or Colour polish ?
Post by: djm1964 on 08 April 2009, 20:07:23
Thanks chaps , much appreciatted , I will venture to the local VX Garage tommorow . Hope he's got my colour in stock !!!

Take care

Dave
Title: Re: Touch up stick or Colour polish ?
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 08 April 2009, 20:10:07
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Thanks chaps , much appreciatted , I will venture to the local VX Garage tommorow . Hope he's got my colour in stock !!!

Take care

Dave

They often do and are pretty reasonably priced.

Like I say, get some paint thinners (halfords?) as the touch up is often a little thick and use a small brush or cocktail stick (works very well) to apply small amounts to fill the chip (without ideally going over the existing paintwork). You can repeat a few times to build the level upto the surrounding paintwork.
Title: Re: Touch up stick or Colour polish ?
Post by: unlucky mark mv6 on 09 April 2009, 20:04:33
Spot of paint,fine wet and dry after its dry to bring the level the same as existing paint,then cut it in with g3 cutting paste.