Quixx Stone Chip Repair Kit - Red

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At some point, you may have to decide whether applying touch-up paint or having a uniform painted surface is more desirable. In terms of the lifetime of the paint itself, touch-up paint is more advantageous because it will protect the entire panel from rusting. However, an uninterrupted color scheme may be of higher priority. Shake the paint Step 1 Paint bottle well, and then use the supplied Chipex paint applicator brush® to dab the paint onto the chipped areas. If the car has suffered 'road rash' (lots of small paint stone chips in one area), put the paint onto a fingertip of the glove, and smear evenly across the road rash, making sure they are all filled. There is a downside, of course, which is that the warranty on screen repairs is virtually non-existent, and if it doesn’t work you could still be in line for a windscreen replacement. If you’re not covered on insurance, or have a big windscreen excess, this is the risk you take. Don’t expect your repairer to do anything other than point to their disclaimer. DIY windscreen repair kits Put on the rubber gloves that come with the kit. These are actually used in the application of the paint.

The instructions recommend leaving each stage for 24 hours to dry before polishing with a fingernail-sized pad for foam. riving with a small stone chip in your car’s windscreen should not cause undue safety concerns. In theory, a chip could spread rapidly and shatter your windscreen, but in reality windscreen experts Auto Glass say this is an incredibly unlikely scenario. The laminated design of modern car windscreen glass – windscreens are typically constructed from two layers of glass sandwiched either side of a sheet of vinyl – is incredibly resilient. From start to finish, Langka provides the tools you need to prepare the paint chip, fill it in, and then seal it from further damage. Included applicator tips help you apply paint to the smallest of paint chips, while the microfiber cloth easily removes any excess paint you might have as you go along. The blob eliminator solution smooths out any spots where you may have applied too much paint. Finally, the sealant ensures the work you just accomplished lasts for the remainder of the vehicle’s lifetime. When finding a stone chip, a lot of people take it upon themselves to touch it up and sometimes this can achieve fairly good results for small, shallow paint chips when using the correct colour paint, but there are times when you should really get your vehicle straight to a professional bodyshop.

Protect your paint and body. While a chip repair kit is designed to restore areas of chipped vehicle paint, these kits can also offer two more significant benefits. They can seal your exterior paint and prevent the metal body underneath from developing rust. Every car features a layer of clear coat over its paint job, which helps protect the paint and keep rust from eating away at your car body. When paint starts to chip, the entire exterior of your vehicle is suddenly at an increased risk of these dangers. But when you apply a chip repair kit, you’ll also restore the lost clear coat and reinforce the protection your car needs. A full panel respray is much more expensive, running to a few hundred pounds. But, many specialists will offer you a SMART repair (Small to Medium Area Repair Technology). This is a modern type of repair, which involves repainting just the damaged area. This allows the repair to be kept localised to the damaged area, saving you time and money. Professionals will use colour-matching technology to mix the paint, to match your car which is even more accurate and less noticeable than matching a colour code. Before filling in scratches with touch-up paint, stop by your local detail shop or speak with the head detailer at your local dealership. Buffing may correct a lot of the scratches on your vehicle unless they are deep enough to require additional paint. Detail experts should be able to tell you which route is the best. It’s not possible to avoid ever getting stone chips in your paintwork but you can take preventative measures to reduce the risk and protect the paintwork by using a paint protection film like a clear vinyl wrapping. The vinyl wrapping will add an extra layer of protection and is a popular choice for prestige vehicles and those with custom paint that they want to protect – but it’s available to anyone wanting to protect their paintwork. Clean the area with soap and water, then rub down with alcohol or white spirit. This step is vital to remove grease and give the paint a good surface to adhere to. Allow the area to dry.

Apply the paint in thin layers. Your car paint is originally applied in several layers, so you need to mimic this. Allow the paint to dry between layers. Make sure to keep the paint within the damaged area and not spread onto surrounding areas. Some classic and prestige cars used to be supplied with a bottle of the factory paint in the glovebox, but those days are long gone and now you’ll be expected to pay for your own. They vary in price and complexity, so we tried five different types of touch-up paint kit to see which did the best job of disguising our damage. You dab the touch-up paint onto the chip, wait for it to dry and then wipe off excess to using a special blending liquid and cloth. Once you are happy with the result you can polish it using a supplied fluid and microfibre cloth. Using it is very satisfying, but deeper or larger chips need several coats to build up, with at least five minutes drying time in between applications. After five coats – each with a new swab and fresh pair of gloves – we gave up. The result was no better than the cheaper kits, which makes it impossible to justify the price unless your car is a very rare colour which no one else can match. Ford Service As every conscientious vehicle owner knows, car paint doesn’t stay perfect forever. Scratches, chips and rust spots inevitably develop on even the most well-cared-for vehicles, and that’s why car paint repair kits were invented. If you've applied the Chipex system correctly, your stone chip repair should be a success, and you'll hardly notice where the ugly marks had been. You've also protected the area from rust and bubbling - brilliant!Your local dealer will still be pleased to furnish you with a bottle of paint of course, as long as you don’t mind paying the high price that comes with genuine parts. The box you will get over the counter contains two small bottles, one containing the colour coat and the other a lacquer which gives shine and protection. Both are applied using a small brush attached to the lid, in much the same way as ladies will apply nail varnish.

After you have applied touch-up paint, wait at least 30 days before waxing or buffing the exterior of your vehicle. The paint may look as if it is set up after a few hours but it needs time to adequately adhere to the surface beneath. If you have a common car in a regular colour, then the touch-up paint world is your oyster and you’ll get the choice of kits. For our Focus, the official Ford product gave the best colour match but came at a price and wasn’t the easiest to use. For even less outlay, there are several DIY options, ranging from pastes to full primer and paint repairs. But are they a false economy? We put eight to the test to find out. For more information on how vinyl wrapping could help protect your vehicle from stone chips, read our post on how and why to use vinyl wrapping. How Much Does a Stone Chip Repair Cost? It’s all quite comprehensive and the bottles have the same two applicators as the Hycote lid, allowing you to choose between a brush or a fine needle point for different size chips. But all the layers are simply too much for smaller areas or damage and we found it built up into an obviously raised appearance. It relies on having three days of fine weather to get the coats on too, and after all that the colour match was far from perfect. VerdictThe process is fairly easy, and the color perfectly matches your car. There's a very large variety of color choices that 100 percent match the OEM finish. It's a three-step advanced touch-up kit that produces professional results, and it includes a solution that removes extra paint and corrects application mistakes. Clean the paint stone chips and surrounding area thoroughly. Make sure that you remove any sealant, wax or polish from the chip area. You can use a bit of the Blending Solution for this job.

To understand the difference between brush tip, pen tip, and applicator tip styles, draw a crude circle on a piece of paper to mimic a paint chip. Now borrow some nail polish and attempt to fill the circle in completely. Do the same with your pen tip and applicator tip, using nail polish or another solution for the applicator tip. Filling in paint chips can seem like a daunting task if you have never attempted it before. There’s the pressure of making sure you only get paint in the chip itself, along with the intensity of having only so much time to repair the chip properly. Langka removes all those barriers to really make paint chip repair an easy process, no matter how much painting experience you have. The most effective cure is a bodyshop respray. Yet this is an expensive option, and can cost several hundred pounds. If you are unable to stretch that far, mobile SMART (Small and Medium Area Repair Techniques) operators do an excellent job on a wide variety of scuffs, dings and dents. Your car manufacturer applies paint in several layers and you need to mimic this procedure to get the desired effect. Apply the paint in thin layers and build it up, allowing adequate drying time between each layer. Make sure you keep the paint in the damaged area and do not paint surrounding areas. When removing stone chips, it takes time, a close paint match and a steady hand. Here are our step-by-step instructions for you to try to fix a stone chip repair on your vehicle:With this touch-up spray paint, you’ll have a color match you can trust. Dupli-Color is the only brand that offers paint colors that have been tested and approved by vehicle manufacturers, so you’ll get a close (if not perfect) color match to your vehicle’s original factory finish. Designed to repair both chips and scratches, this product has an abrasive prep tip that you’ll use to remove any loose paint and rust present. Then, you’ll switch to either the paint pen tip for fine scratches and small chips or the brush tip for larger chips. Either tip gets paint flowing in small amounts for easy control. Finally, you’ll apply the included clear protective coat to seal, protect, and finish your repair work. How To Fix Stone Chips Using Paint Chip Repair Kits Stone chips are one of the most common types of paint damage to occur on vehicles and commonly found on the front bumper and bonnet panels. Stone chips will usually create deep, localised damage to the paint work and it doesn’t have to cost a lot if treated right away. They will start to 'bubble' once water gets underneath the paint, which will lead to rusting and further surround damage to that area This is all a bit of a hassle, but the up side is that the colour match is perfect and – if you put in a bit of finishing work with polish – it looks great. Halfords Stone Chip and Scratch Repair System Mer took the top spot purely down to the fact it supplied a DVD, rather than a video. The only problem with both is cost – once you have added in the price of paint, it’s possible that they will work out as expensive as a SMART fix.