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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!

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.

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!

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.