You don't have to live with all those little paint chips. You know - those little holes in the paint you get from small stones and cinders hitting the nose of you car? The standard way to repair is still the best approach if you have only one or two chips to fix. Quite simply, you get color-matched touchup paint, fill the hole a little higher than level, then wet sand the "blob" of touchup paint until it is level with the surface. You need 200 and 3000 grit sandpaper to do this. This is incredibly easy to do, and no risk as long as your are familiar with using a machine buffer to remove the sanding haze afterward. See the excellent article by David Bynon below. It was originally published at bettercarcare.com, but later deleted. Still an excellent guide where he does this by hand. On the Vette clearcoat I would not attempt this without being adept at using a Porter Cable 7424 or even a rotary buffer.
If you do not want to take sandpaper to your Vette, you have another option: Langka. Their contribution was a liquid rubbing compound called the "Blob Eliminator." With their method, you dab your touchup paint into the paint chip area, wait for it to dry, then rub over it with their compound. The chemicals in their "Blob Eliminator" wear the blob down until it is flush with the surface. In this way, you get no sanding haze to the surrounding clearcoat, yet still make the blob level. For a good result you still need to polish the blob with a Porter Cable, or else its surface will appear very dull and obvious, but at least with the Langka method, you only have to polish the blob, not the surrounding surface of the car.
The latest thing on the market is "Touchup123". I do not use this if I have only one chip to fix. But it is the ONLY reasonable choice (other than a complete re-paint) if you have 100 chips on your nose. Basically, they supply you with their special color-matched paint which you rub on the surface of the car much like wax. It dries in a matter of seconds. Then you use their own type of rubbing compound to remove all the excess paint from the surface of the car, leaving only that paint which is filling the chips.
In my first trial of this product, I covered probably 100 paint chips on the front of a black SUV, with FANTASTIC results. Yes, if you get your nose within a few inches of the paint, and if you know where to look, you can find the filled-in chips. But from 2 feet or more away, the surface looks absolutely perfect.
The one very minor problem is that their "FTC" step, where the excess paint is removed, will cause very superficial swirlmarks. So this is NOT something you want to do if you are not adept at superficial swirlmark removal, easily accomplished with a PC7424.
Before and after photos are shown below. As with all products on my web pages, I have no affiliation at all with any of these vendors. I just like to post up some good things that I come across.
