[Animalfreeride]

Hi all, having recently acquired a 335i MSport, I have been treating my motor like a new baby with lots of TLC! Anyway I have picked up a couple of stone chips to the bonnet & had a small gouge to the kick plate when I bought the car. I touched the them up using a BMW paint stick but found a way to improve the finish. What I found worked well is to fill the chip completely with a blob of paint then allow to dry (don't worry about using an excess amount). Then fold soft tissue paper packing it tightly & dab some nail varnish remover to it. Then simply buff across quickly. Although not 100% perfect I found there was a significant improvement. I can hardly see the gouge now & the other chips are more or less flush with the paintwork. I'm not sure if any of you may have tried this technique, but thought I would share this with you. As the paint stick has different chemicals to the normal paint, the nail varnish remover will not cause any damage. It's a tried & tested technique I have used on my previous car

[willhollin]

Originally Posted by Animalfreeride

Hi all, having recently acquired a 335i MSport, I have been treating my motor like a new baby with lots of TLC! Anyway I have picked up a couple of stone chips to the bonnet & had a small gouge to the kick plate when I bought the car. I touched the them up using a BMW paint stick but found a way to improve the finish. What I found worked well is to fill the chip completely with a blob of paint then allow to dry (don't worry about using an excess amount). Then fold soft tissue paper packing it tightly & dab some nail varnish remover to it. Then simply buff across quickly. Although not 100% perfect I found there was a significant improvement. I can hardly see the gouge now & the other chips are more or less flush with the paintwork. I'm not sure if any of you may have tried this technique, but thought I would share this with you. As the paint stick has different chemicals to the normal paint, the nail varnish remover will not cause any damage. It's a tried & tested technique I have used on my previous car

[sparky750]

Originally Posted by Animalfreeride

Hi all, having recently acquired a 335i MSport, I have been treating my motor like a new baby with lots of TLC! Anyway I have picked up a couple of stone chips to the bonnet & had a small gouge to the kick plate when I bought the car. I touched the them up using a BMW paint stick but found a way to improve the finish. What I found worked well is to fill the chip completely with a blob of paint then allow to dry (don't worry about using an excess amount). Then fold soft tissue paper packing it tightly & dab some nail varnish remover to it. Then simply buff across quickly. Although not 100% perfect I found there was a significant improvement. I can hardly see the gouge now & the other chips are more or less flush with the paintwork. I'm not sure if any of you may have tried this technique, but thought I would share this with you. As the paint stick has different chemicals to the normal paint, the nail varnish remover will not cause any damage. It's a tried & tested technique I have used on my previous car

I'll be trying that

[YvesD]

Originally Posted by sparky750

I'll be trying that

Me too.

[trixman]

Wow, great idea! Cheers!

[MattOz]

It's a great idea and does work well. It's essentially the same way that the Dr.Colorchips thing works.

Matt

[Plaen]

I've found that if you have a lot of stone chips peppered in a region, build up paint layers as said and finish off with a machine polish.

[Ant Man]

Better to build up in layers and mix a little clear lacquer with the paint too if the car is metallic, to bring out the pigments.

The pros use the 3m rubbing stick to flat down and blend into rest of paintwork.

[madman]

will give that a go. I Normally just put on a blob of paint then sand down with a tiny piece of 2500grit until its flush, then polish but i'll be trying this.

Got a HUGE chunk taken out of the front bumper by a stone so i'll be trying this next time.