Paint Chip Repair

hip · Post by **hip** » August 14th, 2006, 10:55 pm

Hey guys,

Just bought a 94 Mx3 yesterday. The paint seems to be chipping on he hood, between the two headlights, any affordable suggestions??

Thanks!

lakersfan1 · Post by **lakersfan1** » August 15th, 2006, 12:02 am

Chipping from like rocks? Or is it just flaking off?

If it's flaking off, I'd sand the whole hood and repaint it. If you don't have the supplies to do a good paint job, any paint store can custom mix a single stage paint in a spray can for you to spray yourself. Usually costs $10-$15 to load each aerosol can + the cost of the paint.

hip · Post by **hip** » August 15th, 2006, 8:30 am

The paint is more or less flaking off. Sounds like some good advice laker, but unfortunately I have no idea what I am doing when it comes to vehicles, come to think of it I'm pretty useless with anything handy. How should I go about doing the sanding, what grade of sand paper should I use? Will the spray paint contrast against my orginal factory paint, will it be as resistant against weathering?

Thanks again for the help!

lakersfan1 · Post by **lakersfan1** » August 15th, 2006, 11:05 am

You should sand off all the old paint to gray primer. Use some 120 grit on a sanding block. Then block sand the whole thing in 240 grit. Then wet sand 400 grit, then 600 grit. It's a process. Then you can spray down the whole hood in the one stage paint. One stage doesn't weather as well as a two-stage paint like is on your car from the factory, but you'd get a good 5 years out of it before you'd be b----ing about it. If you got a paint shop to mix to your paint code, the paint color should be a pretty good match to your factory paint.

Or you could just use this as an opportunity to get a carbon fiber hood.