Touchup Paint
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I recently used the BSP touchup paint from the dealer to repair my first paint chip. I had trouble finding information about how to do a chip repair well, but after some research and anxiety, I attempted it and am pleased with the results. So I will share what I did.
My chip was pretty tiny and only down to the primer. If your repair is larger and/or down to metal, you should prime the repair before painting.
1. Clean the chip with rubbing alcohol and a cotton ball... you want the paint to stick to the primer, not the dirt on the primer.
2. SHAKE THE PAINT for a minute
3. Dab some paint into the chip. I used a toothpick or some cardboard cut to a fine point; for my purposes the brush included with the touchup paint was too big.
4. Let it dry for an hour or so.
5. Repeat step 3 and 4, building the paint up in layers until it's slightly higher than the surrounding intact paint. For the final coat, you might want to use clear coat (purvchased separately). I bought the clear coat but didn't end up using it because my repair was so tiny I could get by without it.
6. Let the paint cure for at least a day, preferable a couple of days.
7. Wet-sand the raised paint using 2000-grit wet/dry sandpaper until it's level with the surrounding paint. Be careful to only sand the touchup paint as much as humanly possible. I cut and wrapped a small piece of sandpaper around the end of a Pink Pearl eraser and found this to be a good tool for fine detail sanding. While you're sanding, be sure to regularly dip the sandpaper back into the water to remove sanded-off paint particles.
8. Your repair will be whitish/hazy from the sanding. Remove this using Meguiar's Scratch-X. Really work it in hard for a minute or less, then wipe the excess to check your work. You might need repeated applications to remove the haze.
9. You're done!
My chip was pretty tiny and only down to the primer. If your repair is larger and/or down to metal, you should prime the repair before painting.
1. Clean the chip with rubbing alcohol and a cotton ball... you want the paint to stick to the primer, not the dirt on the primer.
2. SHAKE THE PAINT for a minute
3. Dab some paint into the chip. I used a toothpick or some cardboard cut to a fine point; for my purposes the brush included with the touchup paint was too big.
4. Let it dry for an hour or so.
5. Repeat step 3 and 4, building the paint up in layers until it's slightly higher than the surrounding intact paint. For the final coat, you might want to use clear coat (purvchased separately). I bought the clear coat but didn't end up using it because my repair was so tiny I could get by without it.
6. Let the paint cure for at least a day, preferable a couple of days.
7. Wet-sand the raised paint using 2000-grit wet/dry sandpaper until it's level with the surrounding paint. Be careful to only sand the touchup paint as much as humanly possible. I cut and wrapped a small piece of sandpaper around the end of a Pink Pearl eraser and found this to be a good tool for fine detail sanding. While you're sanding, be sure to regularly dip the sandpaper back into the water to remove sanded-off paint particles.
8. Your repair will be whitish/hazy from the sanding. Remove this using Meguiar's Scratch-X. Really work it in hard for a minute or less, then wipe the excess to check your work. You might need repeated applications to remove the haze.
9. You're done!
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