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Had to drive in the rain today from the body shop. Wipers clashed and chipped the hood. Any advice outside of painting the whole hood? It is in a spot where really only I will see it I guess...
No, going to read about that more. Any advice is appreciated there as well. The car probably hasn't seen rain since the 80s so they were somewhat untested.
On my 75, I replaced the wiper blades and discovered the small U-shaped arm for the washer hose now hits the hood. The new rubber part of the blade was larger than the original.
I had to carefully bend it down about a quarter inch to clear.
It works fine now.
As far as the paint divot, if you can’t match that color exactly, you could just make that entire back edge of the hood black in lieu of painting the entire hood.
Just touch it up the best you can. If you don't know the paint code, I'd probably just leave it alone, or possibly touch it up with some black paint. Although it'll just look like a black dot.
The worst thing you can do is over think stuff like this. Like respraying the entire hood over a chip that faces the windshield.
It should be able to be 'fixed' so it's an almost invisible repair. The best thing since it doesn't seem like you have a lot of experience fixing chips and you want it really nice...would be to take it back to the bodyshop (or another bodyshop) and have them build up the paint/clear, wetsand it down smooth to the surrounding surface, then buff it smooth and shiny. Then you'd be hard-pressed to see it was ever chipped. Piece of cake! Or you could get the right color chip repair paint online, and build it up yourself (different repair thread perhaps).
And DO have them remove the wiper arms and re-set the wiper motor so the arms are placed in the right "Parked" spot. Or you can be sure the same thing will happen again, next time. Even if it isn't you...sure as can be someone else will come along, or some kid will sit in there, crank every **** and switch....and you get in there and bang. Out-of-position wiper arms are a common rookie mistake (I've done it!) where the arms are removed during a repair/restore, then installed w/o testing that the motor is in it's Parked position. It's a 15-min job to move them where they should be.
Wiper Clash Paint Chip
