Any good way to hide small regular road rock chips? The car isn't bad but I hate seeing any. I am looking at putting a full bra on but will that hide the small chips? If not any options short of a respray?

 

Yes i believe the bra does hide chips well. But check how much a spray would cost as I did this instead.

 

Nick if you don't mind me asking (obviously the UK is different than Germany) how much was your respray? I assume they did a full panel respray without sanding down to bare metal? I really like the factory priming process that I wouldn't want to disturb.

 

Of course I don't mind

They took the paint off to primer and filled in all the small chips which took them ages and then resprayed and double lacquered the front bumper for me too to give it a really tough coat.

I had it done when I did the gen 2 rear to get a better deal and it was around £1000 for the bonnet, half wings, front bumper and rear bumper.


They did a good job and gave me a good deal.

I'm guessing without the rear it would have been £600 to £700 for the front end.

 

Wow that is actually very reasonable! That sounds like a much better solution, I like the idea of getting the clearcoat thicker as well.


I figured it would be 3-4k pounds for all those parts, was that at an indy body shop or a Porsche dealer?

 

It was and Indy.

My girlfriend works for Porsche and even though the deal was good from there it was still half the price.

Porsche are a ripoff for that and most things lol.

Don't get me wrong, when it is important I will spend the money but spraying is spraying.

As long as the person is good its a no brainier for me.

To me If I want to be fussy I could do it every 5 years.

The clear coat was his idea btw.

 

I prefer no-bra...generally speaking that is!

I've used this product:

http://www.drcolorchip.com/

Works well for the minor defects.

 

That looks cool.

 

I have used this method with great success on sold colors (dark). It looks horrid on pearls and metallic.

 

Yea I have midnight metallic blue

 

Completely agree. I have Artic silver and it is horrible. The metal flakes in the touch up tends to be too shiney. Works great on my darker gray M3 and my cherry red van. Clear bra or respray

 

Respray, cure for xx days, then clear bra. I've also had great luck with DrColorchip on non-metallic colors (ex. my Lightning p/u).

 

I have midnight blue and dr color chip worked great. I had the guy who did my clear bra touch up everything with dr color chip before he put it on and you can't tell at all they were there.

And I have used it myself to touch up things, definitely worth using, specially for the price.

 

+1 on the DrColorChip and similar products. Works well.

For those that aren't familiar with these systems, the principle is this: when you use touch up paint, the reason it looks so bad is that you are basically putting a glob of paint to cover up the chip and because it doesn't neatly fill just the chip and gets on the surrounding areas, you get a bumpy, crude, and touch up paint look. What these systems do is they include a touch up paint dissolver (which doesn't harm your clear coat or factory paint) and a flat scraper/microfiber cloth and essentially you are scraping off the excess paint from outside the chip in a very easy way. The result is the touch up paint just fills the chip and nothing else. This makes it look very clean. Whenever I have used it, the chips become invisible at 1 ft and further away from the car. You can still see an outline from less than 1 ft away. Now if you were to clear bra it after treatment, you probably couldn't even see the outline.

Anyhow, goodluck!

 

I just used the DrColorChip system on my 09 TT (white) with really good results. The car had endured 27,000 miles on So Cal roads. It had a front bumper bra which I'm replacing but the hood was unprotected. As a result it had many very small dings. Their process worked really well with no excess paint left. I'm now having the entire front clip wrapped, including headlights and mirrors. I'm also replacing the significantly pitted windshield., and had to spend a couple of hours smoothing out the pitted headlights. I'll post final results once it's done.