I gave the car a washing last night, along with its second ever waxing, which came out better, brighter, and shinier than the first, which I am happy over. While I was wiping off the wax, though, I discovered that what I thought was a glob of wax that was a little thick on the paint was not wax at all...it was my first official chip in the paint, down to where I see the white layer underneath. It's on the most likely part to get chipped...the flat area of the nose of the car.

I've looked on the web for how to deal with this, but all I find are sites selling kits that they promise will match the paint exactly. I'd rather not go with that sort of thing, soooo....

1. Can you get original color touch up paint from Chevy? I called the dealership that is right around the corner from me, which I hate, and the guy on the phone didn't know! He basically couldn't be bothered to find out, either...part of the reason why I hate this dealership...they're all basically stupid, jackasses, or both.

2. Once you do get said paint, if it is available, what's the suggested way to apply it to not look like blobs of paint over flat paint? I see the instructions on the kits available online involve sanding the area down gradually, etc, which frightens me a bit for possibly ruining the surrounding paint, too. I was thinking of simply masking off the tiny chip with painter's masking tape (I used to make model kits, and am used to precision masking of tiny areas) and applying the paint into the chip area that way. Would that fly well enough?

Thoughts/advice would be appreciated.

 

Yes, touch up paint is available from the dealer, just get the paint code from inside the glove box.


Gonna be doing a little touch up on Dory as well. I've been reading and found that by using a very small piece of sandpaper (just a bit larger than a pencil eraser), use the eraser side of the pencil w/ the small piece of sand papter, sand the edge of said chip by rotating the pencil. Not too sure on actual application of paint yet.

 

The dealer has small touch-up paint applicators available. They have one end for pinpoint chips and a small brush for larger chips. You will need one for your color and one clear coat to finish it off. they are around $10 each. You just build it up with light coats until it looks right. then the clear and some wax.

BTW: Summit white is really Olympic white at the dealer, the code is 50U
they told me Summit white was an old color and Olympic was current.

 

Thanks, TkHHR and jx...I'll probably have to call and go out to the dealership where I got my car. They're a little bit out of my way, but the parts guy there is sharp as heck, unlike the angry dullards that are at the dealership across the street from me.

 

why is my signature showing up in everyone's post?

 

it's not from where I sit... I only see your sig on your posts

 

wow...well, it doesnt bother me...but i see my sig, plus an extra copy of my sig photo in the bottom right of EVERYONE's post.

thanks for confirming. I'll let you folks get back to the topic now.

 

My mother in law, used to use a toothpick to dab ever so lightly the new paint right over the chip. Couldn't hardly even see it after see was done. Worth a try, if you don't like just try the sand paper on the pencil trick and undo the toothpick trick.

Seems like a lot of tricks to me

 

You can also use a piece of paper cut in the shape of a triangle (1 1/2"x1"). Use the pointed corner as an applicator and slowly build up the paint to the original thickness..

 

I have had to fixed almost a dozen chips on ours, I have never seen a vehicle so prone to rock chipping.