Langka vs drcolorchip
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I purchased both products and had a go with them. IMO both products are good,,, not perfect. More of chip hiding, some come out very well . I tried the Langka first with mixed results. I think the Langka would work best with "real" stone chips. I did not have many. Most of my defects were very small. On to the Drcolorchip. This product worked well for me. I didn't have and clearcoat problems with it as feared. I accually got to the point that I enjoyed using it. Just smear the stuff on, I waited an hour then buffed off. Works well to hide road rash. I could not make an error with this stuff and the color match was very good. The car is a 996 tt with midnight blue metalic paint. One draw back is I am doing this in my garage under floresent lights. The color looks like a good match under the lights. I don't know what it will look like in natural light. Also the more you use it the better you get at it.
For my car, my skill level, color, type of defects the drcolorchip wins hands down. I am going to try the Langka on my S4. I have a couple of real chips on that car.
I learned that I really suck at taking pictures. Here is an attempt at a b4 and after shot.
For my car, my skill level, color, type of defects the drcolorchip wins hands down. I am going to try the Langka on my S4. I have a couple of real chips on that car.
I learned that I really suck at taking pictures. Here is an attempt at a b4 and after shot.
In my experience, fluorescent lights show everything so if it looks good under those lights, it'll probably look even better in daylight.
Can't wait, I have the same color, waiting on some reviews.
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great info, definitely going to give the drcolorchip a try. i have a lot of little chips on my front fender that could use this lol. a problem that most ppl looking at my car probably dont notice but i do lol.
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I just recently placed an order for Dr. Color Chip. I will definitely do some before and after pictures for both my Porsche and Honda that I plan to use it on. Not sure how long it will take to get here, but probably within a week or so, I can do a complete write up with pics.
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I was hesitant to say the least on trying this on a dark color car, but the outcome and experience was much different then with my silver Accord. First and foremost, here are the learns. On a darker color car, the smaller the original chip, it becomes for the most part impossible to find once applied correctly. The larger chips fill in nicely as well, but if you look for it, you can still find them. No where near as badly as the light color car. On my silver Honda Accord, the product did not live up to the hype, but on the midnight blue Porsche, came out much, much better. I took B&A pics of the silver car, but it did not work well, so never downloaded the pics. I did not do this with the Porsche.
The biggest learns of this product is as follows. The deeper the chip, the harder it will be to hide or fill. You can put as much paint in the chip as you want, but you would have to apply, re-apply, re-apply again, and again to fill in the chip completely. So if you goal is to fill in the chip all the way, be prepared to spend quite a bit of time on deep chips. For the more shallow chips, especially the one's on metal instead of plastic, normally two - three times filling in the paint is all you need to get it to be nice and smooth and fill in to the point of almost not being seen.
You can also opt for one other way to address your paint chip concerns. Just fill it in with the paint to make it less noticeable, but ultimately if you look for it, you will see them. I would say for $39, it is worth it to try as it is much cheaper then a complete repaint and not that much more expensive then buying some of the other paint chip kits, paint pens or other products on the market.
The biggest learns of this product is as follows. The deeper the chip, the harder it will be to hide or fill. You can put as much paint in the chip as you want, but you would have to apply, re-apply, re-apply again, and again to fill in the chip completely. So if you goal is to fill in the chip all the way, be prepared to spend quite a bit of time on deep chips. For the more shallow chips, especially the one's on metal instead of plastic, normally two - three times filling in the paint is all you need to get it to be nice and smooth and fill in to the point of almost not being seen.
You can also opt for one other way to address your paint chip concerns. Just fill it in with the paint to make it less noticeable, but ultimately if you look for it, you will see them. I would say for $39, it is worth it to try as it is much cheaper then a complete repaint and not that much more expensive then buying some of the other paint chip kits, paint pens or other products on the market.
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