Thread: Paint Chip Repair (Dr. Colorchip) - lots of pics

After finally getting fed up with all the little white specs all over the front end of my car, I decided to do something about em. After doing some research on the internet it looked like Dr. Colorchip was my best bet. There was another choice I was considering called langka I think, but the dr. colorchip looked like it worked better, and it had better reviews from what I read. The paint is also color matched to your car so that makes it a little bit more believable (you give them your paint code, found on the inside of your trunk). It was pretty simple to use it, just clean your car, especially the area where the chips are, and then apply the paint. The instructions say to let it sit for atleast 2 minutes, but I waited for a couple hours to let it set up more. After that there is a special solution that you use to wipe of the excess paint. This is what makes this kit unique. You don't have to worry about getting the touch up paint on the rest of your vehicle because it just wipes off. The touch up paint only sticks to the areas where chips are. Pretty convenient if I do say so myself.

On their website there are 3 different "kits" to choose from. They say like up to a dozen chips for the smallest size one and like more than 2 dozen for the largest size. The prices are $39-$59 if I believe and shipping was another 10 bucks. I just ordered the smallest size kit cause I wasn't 100% sure this was gonna work. In the end, I had exactly half of the paint and solution left to do more chips if I wanted. I had wayyyyyy more than a dozen chips haha. Although they weren't that deep of chips, there were tons of them! At least 100 little spots that I corrected. I took before, during, and after pics. Keep in mind there were almost as many chips on the driver side as on the passenger side. The pictures are just from the passenger side (which was worse) just to get the point across. Both sides turned out great. Here are the results:

Mirror

Before:



During:



After:




Bumper

Before:




During:




After:




This one is very close, a couple inches away, just to show it doesn't eliminate the chips completely.




Big chip before:


Big chip after (very close):



End result:




Overall I think this stuff did a great job. It was exactly what I was expecting out of it. As you can see from the pictures, it doesn't work great on deep chips or big scratches. Although I did put another quick coat on the big chip next to the bumper, and it covered it up alot better. I think that multiple coats will help to hide chips and scratches even more. A couple of the pics show the chips and how you can still see them. They are just filled in with paint so they aren't as visible. Keep in mind that those pictures that show the chips still are within a couple inches from the car. Going and looking at the car now, I have a hard time finding most of the chips that were there before. Like I said, it's not perfect and it's not gonna make everything go look perfect again, but it did do an amazing job. I can't see any of the chips anymore unless I get within a foot or 6 inches from them. I know for some people that's not good enough, but hey, look at what it was like before I used this stuff. If you got alot of little specs like this on your car try this stuff out.

having the same issue with the front bumper so i might have to give this a shot sometime. was just going to wait for the bumper to get completely trashed then just repaint, but hell maybe this would work in the meantime.

look a lot better too man, very nice.

Yeah, I think it's well worth the money for $50 bucks including shipping. A hell of a lot cheaper than an entire bumper repaint. And it worked pretty damn good imo.

Originally Posted by Mad Monkey

on chips where it hasnt hit metal this should work nicely, but if its hit/exposed bare metal its not gonna seal it up, rust will develop under it.

i think for your plastic pieces - mirrors, bumper etc, its a good choice!

This is true. Luckily for me none of the chips were that bad that they were all the way to the metal. It did a good job on some of the chips on the hood though. There were others I didn't show pics of but they did a great job as well.

Originally Posted by Warbeaver

so how does it work with the wipe off? looks like you put a bunch of paint over the areas, and then you say you just wipe? do you have to wipe in precision around the chips or do you just wipe right over the whole area with no precision whatsoever?

Yeah basically. You just use the paint brush they give you and wipe over the chip area and you don't have to be precise at all. You just put it on so it covers the chip. Then when you're ready to remove it you just take some of the solution they give you and put it on a rag and wipe the area you put the paint on. You don't have to be precise at all. Just wipe the general area where you can see the paint and it will come right off. This stuff is idiot proof. Very easy to use.

The paint is mixed special so when you go to remove the excess paint, the paint that is in the chip doesn't come out. The solution only removes the paint that didn't go into the chip. Don't ask me how it works, it just does haha.

Originally Posted by Mad Monkey

yeah, im thinking a touch up pen would be a better use of time/cash.

Not even close in my experiences. Touch up pens always look like garbage when I have used them. And for this many little specs and chips I think it would look worse than before with using a pen. Just my opinion.

Yeah, there was one spot. The spot by the license plate. I said that in my first post though. It doesn't work as well on big chips as it does on little ones, it will take more than one coat for big chips.