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Shiny's Accord Type R....
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Re: Shiny's Accord Type R....
Tackled some stone chips on the lip today.
It's only been on a year but looks terrible, i think the drive to Northern Ireland a week or so after i first fitted it didn't help, but it has picked up more and more chips as time has gone on. I have tried touching them in with touch up paint in the past, but it has now got the stage that there are far too many, so time for some desperate action!
In time honoured tradition, i forgot the the "before" pictures, so here is a recent crop from the photos i took a couple of weeks back:
As you can see, thousands of the buggers. I've tried a bit of a drastic fix it or fook it on them.
First off, i dipped a microfibre cloth in the tin of touch up paint and just wiped it all over the lip, to end up with this (sorry, only phone pics):
When it had dried, out with the P1500 and P2500
To end up with this:
The out with the toys:
The idea is to take off all the paint i have wiped on, leaving the stone chipped covered. Nearly there, you can still see a thin layer of touch up paint in the top half of the lip on the right hand side of the picture:
Touched in the half a dozen so chips that reappeared and job done:
Pleased with the result, not perfect but much better tan it was. Don't think i'd do this on anything other than a lip, and without an aggressive cutting polish it takes a fair bit of polishing.
It's only been on a year but looks terrible, i think the drive to Northern Ireland a week or so after i first fitted it didn't help, but it has picked up more and more chips as time has gone on. I have tried touching them in with touch up paint in the past, but it has now got the stage that there are far too many, so time for some desperate action!
In time honoured tradition, i forgot the the "before" pictures, so here is a recent crop from the photos i took a couple of weeks back:
As you can see, thousands of the buggers. I've tried a bit of a drastic fix it or fook it on them.
First off, i dipped a microfibre cloth in the tin of touch up paint and just wiped it all over the lip, to end up with this (sorry, only phone pics):
When it had dried, out with the P1500 and P2500
To end up with this:
The out with the toys:
The idea is to take off all the paint i have wiped on, leaving the stone chipped covered. Nearly there, you can still see a thin layer of touch up paint in the top half of the lip on the right hand side of the picture:
Touched in the half a dozen so chips that reappeared and job done:
Pleased with the result, not perfect but much better tan it was. Don't think i'd do this on anything other than a lip, and without an aggressive cutting polish it takes a fair bit of polishing.
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