Question for paintdoctor

Nonoperational

If paintdoctor (or anyone else) gets a minute...

Is it possible to get a good finish repairing stone chips or would you need to get the panel repainted? I was thinking of filling them above the level of the paint with paint and then sanding it back and polishing it. Is that too simplistic?

The car is black so colour matching shouldn't be an issue.

Sound.

Owen

There's not much you can really do with stone chips. The companies that 'repair' them usually just use an airbrush to fill the crater in with the same colour paint, and then try to polish it flat leaving the outline of the crater, and some do the same thing with what's called SSR - Sprayless Scratch Repair - a resin which is applied into the stone chip, left to harden, and polished flat - again, if you're close to the car, you'll always see where the stone chip was.

The only real solution is to sand them out with something like 600 wet and dry and a sanding block and respray the panel. If you watch Wheeler Dealers, you'll remember Edd doing that with an Alfa they resprayed the front of - it's the episode where when sanding back the bonnet, they discovered it was originally blue.

Nonoperational

Yep that's what I thought. Thanks. I have them filled in in places and it looks a bit better bit I'll need to get it sorted. Bloody stones all over the roads this winter is killing the car!