Has anyone ever had they're car touched up for rock chips? If you have, how much does it usually cost to have the front done? Also, does anyone in the DFW area know of a good place to get it done? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

 

Had rock chips and a few dings in mine and toyed with tigershark idea. But found a local come-to-you mobil bumper repair company and they did a great job for $425 did the entire bumper and fixed a tear on the side, would have been $325 to fix rock chips and paint/clear coat/buff entire bumper.

 

At freeway speeds, you can’t go 100 miles without a rock bouncing off your car. If you have ever driven a motorcycle, you will know what it feels like to be hit by a rock.

To fix your paint ships, you will need a can of Turpentine, some touchup paint matching the color of your car, a toothpick, and cotton cloth.

1. Remove the cap on the can of Turpentine and put the cotton cloth over your finger and then put your finger over the opening and turn the can upside down. This will give you a dimes worth of Turpentine to work with.
2. The Turpentine on the cotton cloth is just enough to remove the wax around and in the chip.
3. Shake the touchup paint well and open the cap and take out the little brush.
4. Put a small chip sized drop on the end of your toothpick and tap it into the chip.

What you are looking for here is a bubble of paint in the chip. If you get some on your paint, don’t worry about it right now. After drying for 15 minutes the paint will shrink into the chip.

5. Repeat #1 before lightly in a fast motion back and forth begin to remove the paint that got onto the cars paint. What you are trying to do is just leave the paint in the chip. If you have made a mess, press harder and remove all the paint and start over.
6. Repeat this process a second time as you will need another round of paint in the chip to bring the paint level with the paint on your car.

Don’t worry about the Turpentine. It will NOT remove any factory paint on your car. The longer paint dries the harder it is to remove.

You will soon find that fixing a paint chip is not as hard as it sounds.

VETFVER

 

Good tip by robsc501. I would think that $300-400 for a front fascia repaint would be about right, depending on the labor rate of the shop is.

 

check out www.drcolorchip.com

 

The tip from robsc501 sounds like the procedure described by Langka paint chip repair. If it works, its $35 cheaper!!

I'll be giving robsc501's method a try on an annoying chip that I have.

RonJ ...

 

Consider yourselves lucky to only have a few chips. Mines beginning to look like it did business with a 12 gauge loaded with birdshot. At first I tried touching them all up but after awhile the touch up paint fades and looks as bad as the chip did. I run around with a bra most of the time but it isn't much help.