Could also be the location and highway driving, or style of driving? Either way, I don't have the time or tools to pay attention to each little rock chip as some people have suggested doing. I can't tape them all off and work them one at a time. Some are really small, some are big. Some are really close together.
I've already come to the conclusion that I need to get my hood repainted, but I can't afford it. So in the meantime, I decided, hey what the heck? Why not mess around with it and see what I can do.
So I grabbed a bottle of touch up paint I got from the body shop when they fixed up some scratches my neighbors caused, or when my car was vandalized (not sure which bottle it was). Anyway, I grabbed that battle and went crazy on my hood. First I wiped the hood down with Dishwashing soap to remove the wax, rinses it with a spray bottle, and wiped with a microfiber cloth. I was lazy, didn't want to wash my entire car so just did the hood this way.
After that, I tried to cover every single rock chip in my hood. I didn't have the worlds best precision so there's a lot of overlapping. Here's the aftermath:
Sorry I don't have an expensive camera either, just my junky cell phone. Ugly though, my car has polka-dots now ! haha
Anyway, I tried to "blob" up some of the touch up paint in the chips to fill them in so i applied some of it several times. I'm not sure how long it needs to dry before "layering" though, it seemed to dry really fast.
I don't really want to sand my entire hood, can't I just use some Ultimate Compound and a foam pad? I might get a DA soon.
Also since I just finished, can I apply wax again or does touch up paint need to cure for a while too?
