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Well I forgot to ask mike about the paint chips on the side of my car today in the open garage. Anyways, I have some paint chips that are all the way to the metal. I filled them in with touch up, but my question is, will a heavy cutting pad, some Ultimate compound, and a PC 7424 be enough to fix this? Or is this more of a wet-sand/rotary fix?
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Re: Paint chips
Sadly, "it depends" but I will say this- I was able to do touch-up work, followed by 3,000 grit Unigrit sandpaper (Which is as rough as you need), and then HAND rub out the marks with Ultimate Compound and a foam Softbuff applicator pad.
No need for heavy wool or any of that, just be patient, and use the Ultimate Compound. The key is not to use cheap sandpaper, or too aggressive of grit sandpaper as they tend to leave deep gouges that are harder to get out. -
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Here's what I did for my chips last year
A littly Meg's Uni-grit #1000-#2000-#3000
Here's what it looked like after sanding
buffed out with Wool pad and M105
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That was a job well done mario. If i can't get a hold of 105,would any of the consumer line products work after the sanding?
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Ultimate Compound by hand will work to remove finer grit sanding marks. If you try this, try only doing a small tiny spot first because besides the product, the other VERY important factor as to whether you can remove sanding marks by hand is your skills and abilities.Originally posted by Eddie6th View Post
You don't want to sand down the hood of your car and then find out you can't get the sanding marks out by hand.
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^UC is a good product, you just might have to use a little more passion than if you had 105Comment
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How long do you need to let the touch-up paint dry/cure before proceeding?
I'm working on a lot of spots on the front of my Jeep. The touch-up paint sat for 6 days, and then I tried a test spot with some UC by hand - it seemed to remove some of the paint from within the ding as well as from around it, so I'm wondering if I just need to let the paint sit longer, or if light sanding will remove the excess around the chip while leaving the within the chip.Comment
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You should make a new thread about this.Originally posted by LongGone View Post
Also I think this question has some answer already
Here's a search on "paint chips"
http://meguiarsonline.com/forums/sea...archid=2433736Comment
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