Hagerty Insurance sent out a "Deal of the Week" email about a chip and scratch repair product called Dr.ColorChip. Has anyone here tried it? I have a lot of stone chips on the nose of my GP GXP and a few on the Bird that I would like to repair. Dabbing on touchup paint is always imperfect for me and a respray of the area is impractical.
Never heard of it. Maybe you can be our guinea pig and report back to us.
I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure. I feel like I am diagonally parked in a parallel universe. 1968 400 convertible (Scarlet) 1976 T/A - 455 LE (No Burt) 1976 T/A New baby, starting full restoration. 1968 350 - 4 speed 'vert - 400 clone (the Beast!) 1968 350 convertible - Wife's car now- 400 clone (Aleutian Blue) (Blue Angel) 2008 Durango - DD 2008 GXP - New one from NH is AWESOME! 2017 Durango Citadel - Modern is nice! HEMI is amazing! 1998 Silverado Z71 - Father-daughter project 1968 400 coupe - R/A clone (Blue Pearl) (sold) 1967 326 convertible - Sold 1980 T/A SE Bandit - Sold
Looks like I can rule out using it on the Bird. I wrote to them asking about their products used on acrylic lacquer that does not have a clear coat. The don't recommend it for lacquer if it does not have a clearcoat.
Not sure how handy you are but with some effort you can do wonders with touchup paint. here is a video giving the basics, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8lj0_C-iPI and if you search their channel they have others similar to this one. I have used methods similar to these in the past and they work great even if your touchup paint is slightly off color. For the best paint match go to an autobody supply place with your car and have them mix up a paint match for you, some use a special tool for this but some of the old guys can do just as good and better by eye. Also, the last car I did had single stage paint and it works the same. By the way I feel the same as you and just dabbing on touchup and leaving it that way is only for Junkers.
Thanks, I'll study the video in the morning. I still have a partial leftover can of the Bird's paint plus a new gallon I had mixed up in case lacquer vanishes. So, matching is not an issue.
I got a paint pen from Touchupdirect that includes the color and clear. It's a decent color match for small chips considering my April Gold bird is probably off from factory.
1968 Pontiac Firebird 400 Convertible - April Gold/Deluxe Black Automatic 1968 Pontiac Firebird 400 Coupe - Aegena Blue/Standard Teal 4 speed 1968 Pontiac Firebird 400 H.O. Convertible - Alpine Blue/Deluxe Teal Automatic 1968 Pontiac Firebird 400 Coupe - Autumn Bronze/Deluxe White 4 speed
I spent a couple hundred dollars on gizmos that suppose to do a perfect job for touching up/fixing rock chips and scratches. No dice. What I ended up doing is googling exotic car scratch and chip removal and - dang! Those guys work on million dollar vehicles and will do you a good job if that is in your cards. They are professionals much like the PDR guys.