Chipex - paint. Anyone recall the thread about this a couple of weeks ago?
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mjheathcote
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Yah, your thread!
http://www.sportsmaserati.co.uk/sho...t-protection-film-or-similar?highlight=chipex
No before and after pictures posted yet though.
http://www.sportsmaserati.co.uk/sho...t-protection-film-or-similar?highlight=chipex
No before and after pictures posted yet though.
mjheathcote
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There is so much useful info, you do forget where it is at times.
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mjheathcote
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...is it all down to technique of application then, paints paint!
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I'll take that one on the chin...What can I say, I got up too early this morning!!
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Well you have to explore the 'wonder products' one day one of them will actually work!
My advise is to have it colour sanded by a pro.
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Hi guys
Just a quick little update on this thread based upon my recent experience of Chipex. The bottom line IMO is to not bother.
I was following a truck recently (there are tons of them on the road over here unfortunately) and saw the little blighter of a stone bounce off the back of it and loop up before hitting my roof and taking a decent chip of paint off it. Not happy!!
Anyway I saw the Chipex YouTube clip on the black BMW and it looked very impressive so I ordered it in from the UK to Aus and it arrived nice and quickly so I got into it. I've tried about 6 times now with different techniques but the result is still basically the same - largely underwhelming! Now clearly my car (Blu Nettuno) looks better with no white undercoat showing through but then this could be achieved by a small pot of ordinary 'touch up' paint rather than the $70-odd worth of Chipex and it most certainly does not make the chips disappear or even blend in really. If I was brutally honest, a waste of money given I have a pot of touch up paint :-(
Obviously a professional job would be the way forward and as Conaero stated, maybe one day one of these 'wonder products' will actually work but for me, it sure as **** ain't Chipex!!! Hope this helps save someone else the money!
Cheers
G
Just a quick little update on this thread based upon my recent experience of Chipex. The bottom line IMO is to not bother.
I was following a truck recently (there are tons of them on the road over here unfortunately) and saw the little blighter of a stone bounce off the back of it and loop up before hitting my roof and taking a decent chip of paint off it. Not happy!!
Anyway I saw the Chipex YouTube clip on the black BMW and it looked very impressive so I ordered it in from the UK to Aus and it arrived nice and quickly so I got into it. I've tried about 6 times now with different techniques but the result is still basically the same - largely underwhelming! Now clearly my car (Blu Nettuno) looks better with no white undercoat showing through but then this could be achieved by a small pot of ordinary 'touch up' paint rather than the $70-odd worth of Chipex and it most certainly does not make the chips disappear or even blend in really. If I was brutally honest, a waste of money given I have a pot of touch up paint :-(
Obviously a professional job would be the way forward and as Conaero stated, maybe one day one of these 'wonder products' will actually work but for me, it sure as **** ain't Chipex!!! Hope this helps save someone else the money!
Cheers
G