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Repairing stone chips that have developed rust?!

  • 10-07-2013 1:13pm
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    SpitfireIV
    Registered Users Posts: 4,504 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys,

    Just trying to clean up my little '98 Starlet a bit, she's in pretty good nick for her age and miles (178k) and comes up damn well after a good wash!

    Only thing thats letting her down now (or perhaps I'm getting too involved) is a couple of little stone chips, well, when I say little, maybe 3-4mm in diameter that may have been tipped up by a previous owner, but have developed a little rust, so, on the side of my dark blue car there are now rust colored spots.


    Both are on the centre of their respective panels, one on the mid section of the passenger door and the other about the mid section of the rear quarter panel.


    Theyre gone beyond a tip of a paintbrush to 'hide' them, I'd like to try sort them and in doing so eliminate the rust!!


    All the guides online are either telling me to respray the whole panel or a very large section of it or, just sand, prime and paint the chip and then wax/polish it, but, with it being waterbased based realistically how long would such a repair last?! Surely it'd need to be laquered over again??




    Anyone have any relatively easy/fool proof procedures/fixes that they have personal experience doing? Cheers! :)
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