Today I picked up some 600 grit wet and dry and a power red paint stick and some Isopropol alcohol.

Tommorow , I've told the missus if anybody phones for me " he s outside working on the motor ! "

I'll sand back the paint chips , clean with IA and then paint in some colour to build up level. Then I'll let it harden as the rest of the wet abd dry from 1000 to 5000 and some polish discs for the drill need to arrive in the post , but I'm hoping to make some very neat paint repairs.

...and how did you get on with it - any end result photos yet?

Hiya Not managed to do a thing yet sadly , all of a sudden work has got very busy, on weds morning I'm hoping to send and clean the marks and fill with paint and then colour cut at the weekend. I promise to post progress photos as I go along.

Finally had a spare 90 mins today to get work started on my paint chips , previous owner or dealer had touched a few chips in with touch up pen , but it was wrong colour of red ! And also there are some chips, small but thru to the white primer , so today (pics below) I cleaned the chips and rubbed down the wrong colour paint with Isopropyl and 600 grit wet and dry , and will now leave the new paint I touched in to dry and harden and when I get home at the weekend the papers up to 5000 grit and the polish and pads I ordered will have arrived and I can add more coats and cut and polish the paint in a bit better . More pics to follow at rhe weekend when I get to do stage 2 of this job. Pictures are before and after touch up and 600 grit sanding.

Well that's a very good start and you have more patience than I do for those types of repairs.
Look forward to seeing the end results once the rest of the materials arrive

Saterday , didn't get as much as I would have liked done, it's my first day back in 10 days and a stack of chores to deal with first , including pruning trees , but I did manage to get a 2nd coat of paint onto the chips where they have dried and sunk in a bit so back up to zlondon tommoroe but all the grades of paper and wheels , polish pads , compound and polish have arrived so I'll take them with .e and see if I can get a bit if colour cutting done in the coming week and post a few photos.

always best to leave jobs like this to a day when its warm and dry - maybe July (if we're lucky enough to have another good summer this year) :-)

I'm at home till Tuesday morning, powered thru a stack of chores already, little bit of admi to get done and then Gin and Movies evening with the Handbrake. Tommorow I will get back on colour cutting those stone chip repairs on the car and post a few progress photos , also I've a glass cleaning product I've been trying out and I'll post a picture of it, it's been really good so far.

Good weekend fellow car enthusiasts.

Just had another couple of hours in the drizzle and forced indoors by fading light but what great fun. I've attached a picture of the bonnet after I'd applied touch up paint and sanded with 600 grit , really I should not have gone below 1200 grit but I'm learning, today I wet and dried all my touch ins with 1200, 2000, 3000 and 5000 grit papers and then using a foam pad on the drill some not so nice and rather old compound I had in the shed and I kust say the edges of the fix are really good and nicely blended in, what I need to rok on is getting more shine in the paint , tommorow I'll do a bit more using a new compound I bought today and also some autoglym polish to finish and then post some pictures for you to see , but even with the paint not glossy enough it's a big improvement on the stone chips I had and the bad touch ups the dealer or previous owner had made.

So beer , dinner and movie time !!

Steve