Just wondering if anyone has tried Chipex to sort out their stone chips and scratches? I have recently ordered the kit which promises 100% colour match and a seamless finish. I want to know if anyone has tried this and what is their review on it? I have some weird scratches on the bodywork which I also want to sort out. Watched a youtube video by them advertising the product on a BMW and the results looked promising!
Chipex - Anyone tried it?
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There was another thread about this a few weeks ago. Basically, some people think it's a rip off and you're better with cheap touch-up, others think it's great... I'm somewhere in the middle.
For me, I think the paint itself is great, good colour match and it's much easier being able to polish it to match the clear coat. Other touch up kits normally have paint then clear coat which is a pain IMO, especially if you're doing quite a few chips at once. I don't get on with the chipex blending solution though, it's OK if you're doing a road rash fix where you've smeared paint over a big area and are wiping off the excess, but for individual bigger chips it just doesn't seem to work. Each time I've tried it I've ended up taking out too much paint, no matter how light I've been. Using the paint, then levelling it some other way (e.g. wet sanding) gives great results though
For me, I think the paint itself is great, good colour match and it's much easier being able to polish it to match the clear coat. Other touch up kits normally have paint then clear coat which is a pain IMO, especially if you're doing quite a few chips at once. I don't get on with the chipex blending solution though, it's OK if you're doing a road rash fix where you've smeared paint over a big area and are wiping off the excess, but for individual bigger chips it just doesn't seem to work. Each time I've tried it I've ended up taking out too much paint, no matter how light I've been. Using the paint, then levelling it some other way (e.g. wet sanding) gives great results though
MickAdams said:There was another thread about this a few weeks ago. Basically, some people think it's a rip off and you're better with cheap touch-up, others think it's great... I'm somewhere in the middle.
For me, I think the paint itself is great, good colour match and it's much easier being able to polish it to match the clear coat. Other touch up kits normally have paint then clear coat which is a pain IMO, especially if you're doing quite a few chips at once. I don't get on with the chipex blending solution though, it's OK if you're doing a road rash fix where you've smeared paint over a big area and are wiping off the excess, but for individual bigger chips it just doesn't seem to work. Each time I've tried it I've ended up taking out too much paint, no matter how light I've been. Using the paint, then levelling it some other way (e.g. wet sanding) gives great results though
Apologies, never saw the thread. Is there something else you use now or are you using chipex? It seemed from their video that a lot of paint seems to apply on the area. The scratch on the boot lid is one I want to get rid of first so will try it on that. I really dont want a finish where the colour is different as I am a bit of a perfectionist in a way. :lol: It did seem quite expensive I thought also but if the finish is good and unnoticeable, then surely its worth it? I bought the largest set hoping that it should be enough to fix the whole car. I think their video states that it lasts 500 chips? surely not...?
I use the chipex paint as it's a good colour match (for the 3 cars I've tried it with, 2 different silvers and 1 red), but then have wet sanded it rather than use the levelling fluid, and more recently I've experimented with a Festool denibber tool that I bought. It all depends how confident you are really and what equipment you have, and possibly whether you can afford to have it fixed properly if you make a mess :lol:Ricardo1992 said:
As for the size of the kit, if you're using the levelling fluid, you'll definitely run out of that before paint! The bigger paint kit gives you plenty, if you run out of it you'd have been better off paying for the car respraying. On my old car I did a road rash fix on the skirts which were absolutely battered along the back edge with probably thousands of small chips, smeared paint all over and then wiped off the excess with the levelling fluid, and still have probably 2/3 of the bottle left. From a normal viewing distance (not crouching down to look) you couldn't tell at all, it looked factory fresh, well worth the price
MickAdams said:I use the chipex paint as it's a good colour match (for the 3 cars I've tried it with, 2 different silvers and 1 red), but then have wet sanded it rather than use the levelling fluid, and more recently I've experimented with a Festool denibber tool that I bought. It all depends how confident you are really and what equipment you have, and possibly whether you can afford to have it fixed properly if you make a mess :lol:
As for the size of the kit, if you're using the levelling fluid, you'll definitely run out of that before paint! The bigger paint kit gives you plenty, if you run out of it you'd have been better off paying for the car respraying. On my old car I did a road rash fix on the skirts which were absolutely battered along the back edge with probably thousands of small chips, smeared paint all over and then wiped off the excess with the levelling fluid, and still have probably 2/3 of the bottle left. From a normal viewing distance (not crouching down to look) you couldn't tell at all, it looked factory fresh, well worth the price
You obviously have a lot more confidence in doing this than me!! :rofl: I will try the leveling fluid but dont think I have the balls to wet sand it. :lol:
Received it yesterday and to be honest, I am not impressed with the results. Going to give it a few more attempts and watch a few more videos on other people trying this before I give it a complete miss. But right now, it seems like a waste of money and time...
Z4M-2006 said:
Yeah, hope so. Been looking at the youtube official chipex videos and to be honest, you can still see where the paint has come off in them. Really dissapointed but gonna keep at it and see if I can get a better result before giving up.
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