Carleton
Viper Owner
Does anyone use touch up paint for those little rock nicks you get around the fascia and if so, can you order from Dodge?
Thanks
Carleton
Thanks
Carleton
Touch up paint
- Thread starter Carleton
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ruckdr
Enthusiast
IT TAKES SOME TIME!!!
Here is what I do to repair rock chips, and I get a lot of them on my Viper when running at the local road course track days.
1) clean the chip and a small surrounding area with alcohol to remove any
wax.
2) fill the chip with your touch up paint; this may take more than one application to "overfill" the chip, let dry - usually overnight. Since we are talking about a very small (minute) amount of paint to fill the chips, I like to use a tooth pick (even sliced to a shark point), or even the point of a straight pin . Dip into the paint and get a small blob in the tip and fill the chip. Metallic paint is the hardest to fill because of the pick up of the metallic in the paint.
3) now go to your wife's favorite beauty supply store and buy some emory
boards - you know those cardboard finger nail files. Get these in various
degrees of coarseness, from fine to finer.
4) use these "files" to file off the excess paint and work down to be
even with the surface. It works best to cut the "files" to a small
point or rounded point (say 1/8 inch wide) so as to file as small a
surrounding area as possible.
5) you will have a few marks in the paint, like swirl marks.
6) I use a buffer to remove these marks with a very fine cutting compound
or swirl remover; clear coat safe.
GOOD LUCK.
Here is what I do to repair rock chips, and I get a lot of them on my Viper when running at the local road course track days.
1) clean the chip and a small surrounding area with alcohol to remove any
wax.
2) fill the chip with your touch up paint; this may take more than one application to "overfill" the chip, let dry - usually overnight. Since we are talking about a very small (minute) amount of paint to fill the chips, I like to use a tooth pick (even sliced to a shark point), or even the point of a straight pin . Dip into the paint and get a small blob in the tip and fill the chip. Metallic paint is the hardest to fill because of the pick up of the metallic in the paint.
3) now go to your wife's favorite beauty supply store and buy some emory
boards - you know those cardboard finger nail files. Get these in various
degrees of coarseness, from fine to finer.
4) use these "files" to file off the excess paint and work down to be
even with the surface. It works best to cut the "files" to a small
point or rounded point (say 1/8 inch wide) so as to file as small a
surrounding area as possible.
5) you will have a few marks in the paint, like swirl marks.
6) I use a buffer to remove these marks with a very fine cutting compound
or swirl remover; clear coat safe.
GOOD LUCK.
Carleton
Viper Owner
Great ideas guys.
Thank you.
Carleton
Thank you.
Carleton
You could always try my special brew:
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Re: Touch up paint Anyone used LANKGA?
The claim:
LANKGA is a product that whan used with OEM touch up paint eliminates any bumps or irregularities in the repair. It is used 2 hours to 4 days after the touch-up is done and it flattens out the touch-up without any sanding and without affecting your vehicles original paint!
Check out: http://langka.com/
Have any of you used this stuff?
The claim:
LANKGA is a product that whan used with OEM touch up paint eliminates any bumps or irregularities in the repair. It is used 2 hours to 4 days after the touch-up is done and it flattens out the touch-up without any sanding and without affecting your vehicles original paint!
Check out: http://langka.com/
Have any of you used this stuff?
