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My paint looks actually pretty good save for quite a few (15-20) mostly small chips in the paint - pretty much I am responsible for all of them . I had no idea C3 corvette paint was so fragile.!!!
I went to a body shop and the fellow there said that there was enough of them to warrant a full respray at 6-8,000 clams.
I always thought that if the paint was overall healthy, a shop could fix chips.
Your car can be touched up. That type of work requires a bit of skill, but won’t net the shop anywhere near what a respray is worth. In my opinion a touch up is just that, and the results are not as dramatic.as new paint. Do your due diligence, and call around your area and find a shop that is willing to do the work you want. Be careful, you don’t want some jack hole to make things worse.
Your car can be touched up. That type of work requires a bit of skill, but won’t net the shop anywhere near what a respray is worth. In my opinion a touch up is just that, and the results are not as dramatic.as new paint. Do your due diligence, and call around your area and find a shop that is willing to do the work you want. Be careful, you don’t want some jack hole to make things worse.
Thanks mate. That’s what I thought. I have the Fourth of July off I’ll visit another shop.
I don’t need a perfect job. But I would like to see the bigger chips cared for.
You haven't said what's on your car now. Is it original lacquer, or metallic, or clear coated? Any of the latter, metallic and/or clear coat can be problematical depending on how deep and how big the chips are. Not that I am plugging the product, but I have gotten excellent results from Dr. Color Chip on a solid color retouch. If you have a single stage solid color you might be able to handle this job yourself. I can't tell anything from your avatar.
The paint job itself honestly should not be so expensive, especially if you go with the same color....
Its the prep/ body work which usually justifies such high estimates. I feel you pain.. I decided to just learn how to do it myself and watched a lot of you tube videos.. I stripped my car with a razor blade and put $800 in vettte body panel adhesive and paint on it but unlike your car my paint was a bubbling lifting mess my front bumper also came in a box with the car...
You should be able to have the chips filed and sanded and another top coat applied over your existing paint for a reasonable cost. painting alone is a 2 day labor project. Being a metallic, filling chips is tricky without a respray.
From what I see it looks like there's at least a couple layers of paint on your car already. If so, your next repaint should be one where the car's stripped to bare fiberglass, and not a simple scuff and shoot repaint.
The size and depth of those chips don't look like "normal" paint chips, and might be the result of paint that's too thick (too many coats of paint), poor surface prep, or both. The chip on the door edge looks like the fiberglass itself may have been chipped/damaged?
I see 2 layers of paint on this car... I just watched an episode of phantom works where they stripped a c3 of 14 layers of paint jobs. yes 14 layers.. Now that was a mess. Just saying. I guess it depends what your definition of "reasonably good, not perfect" is.
My paint looks actually pretty good save for quite a few (15-20) mostly small chips in the paint - pretty much I am responsible for all of them . I had no idea C3 corvette paint was so fragile.!!!
I went to a body shop and the fellow there said that there was enough of them to warrant a full respray at 6-8,000 clams.
I always thought that if the paint was overall healthy, a shop could fix chips.
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if you DRIVE your car and don’t look at it in the garage , keep in mind you will get always get paint chips !! It comes with the enjoyment happy motoring 🚗
if you DRIVE your car and don’t look at it in the garage , keep in mind you will get always get paint chips !! It comes with the enjoyment happy motoring 🚗
Yes. Words of wisdom there. This is a driver. If mending paint chips is possible, it makes more sense than a prohibitive respray.
Paint chip vs respray
. I had no idea C3 corvette paint was so fragile.!!!
I’ll visit another shop. 
