HellsBells
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Okay so, I used my DrColorChip kit today to repair some dings on my car.
Here are the three things I've repaired, I have classified them as such because of the nature of the damage:
1) Rock chips. I got two VERY gnarly rock chips on the passenger door a few months ago. It was bad enough to where I heard the rocks hit my car and this was at freeway speed. The result was two good sized chips with one little scratch-like chip. They hit hard enough to go down to the primer and sheetmetal of the doorskin:
You get the idea. They're bad chips. Here is the paint dabbed and smeared on:
As you can see, the paint goes on and the match is good -- thought black is easy to match (but it's not over...) You can tell the paint colors in the chip but unfortunately, it doesn't fill it in. As a result, you can absolutely tell there was a chip there since the surface is dented and uneven.
After a few applications, I couldn't get it to fill in completely but the paint is there. The problem I have here is that the solution they give you to remove the excess paint inevitably ends up touching the paint that is in the chip. This seems to dull out the paint and now, I have a really terrible match. The paint in the chip looks basically matte black. I apologize for the terrible picture, it's the best I could do. You can tell the discoloration on the left is where the chip used to be.
2) Small rock chip. This is located on my CDC aggressive lip that gets a lot of abuse by virtue of being so low to the ground. This is one of those typical small chips most people get on their front end. My front end has a clearbra except for the CDC lip so this is the best I could find to make a typical example. If you look on the DrColorChip website, this is the type of chips they use as examples for before and after pictures. Why? Because it's the kind it works best on.
First application, you can see where the big white spot is, that's the chip. I didn't put enough the first time to fill it in completely:
After 5 applications:
3) Really bad scrape. I think I hit a protuding manhole cover with this. It caused the lip to flex so much that the paint cracked on the top (you can see it in the next picture). Anyway, you can tell where the paint was missing where I dabbed it. This was something you could see 6 ft away from the car:
And after 5 applications, this is the best it can do. If you see how flat or matte that big chip looks, that's exactly the color that I got on the door chip, even though the door chip was much smaller. The big white streak is reflection. The zigzag is a scratch, and you can tell at the very edge of the lip, it's pretty beat up and the paint wouldnt even stick to all of it, hence the white spots (because that surface was ground on the asphalt and is completely uneven).
Conclusion:
Again, I apologize for the terrible pictures--I wasn't planning on taking any but people on here were curious to try this.
In my opinion, this is an improvement over the normal touch up paints that blob. It's absolutely clear that this goes on much more discreetly and the end result is not bad.
My only complaint is that it does NOT work on large chips as I've shown you. On the other hand, it seems to work well on really small chips but anything larger than a grain of sand does not do so hot. This is sort of obvious from their website too, NONE of the examples they show in pictures have large chips, they are all small chips, those "peppered" spots, otherwise known as road rash.
Verdict:
-Don't use if you have scrapes, scratches, large dings, deep chips.
-Works decent on small tiny chips but for the money, you could save by using regular touch up paint and using a toothpick to apply.
I am going to wait for the paint to cure 100% and then I'm going to keep applying it. I purchased the smallest kit and I have to say, there's a ton of paint there to use. If I had to fix so many chips on my car that I needed the entire bottle, I would just pay the $100/panel and have someone professional paint it over and blend it in.
Would I purchase this again? Probably not. Seeing as black is so easy to paint match, I can't see this thing doing too well on other colors. Is it as pain-free and easy as they claim? No way. The paint removal solution they give you strips ALL the paint if you just wipe normally. You have to be super gentle and basically avoid the chip where you want the paint to stay. I'd rather just buy normal paint and apply it with a toothpick very slowly instead of doing this. Plus, if you get any of the solution onto the paint, it seems to immediately dull it out.
Any questions please ask, I'll try my best to answer! Hope this helps some of you make a decision.
In the future, I will be trying the Langka kit instead--which seems to be their primary competitor.
Here are the three things I've repaired, I have classified them as such because of the nature of the damage:
1) Rock chips. I got two VERY gnarly rock chips on the passenger door a few months ago. It was bad enough to where I heard the rocks hit my car and this was at freeway speed. The result was two good sized chips with one little scratch-like chip. They hit hard enough to go down to the primer and sheetmetal of the doorskin:
You get the idea. They're bad chips. Here is the paint dabbed and smeared on:
As you can see, the paint goes on and the match is good -- thought black is easy to match (but it's not over...) You can tell the paint colors in the chip but unfortunately, it doesn't fill it in. As a result, you can absolutely tell there was a chip there since the surface is dented and uneven.
After a few applications, I couldn't get it to fill in completely but the paint is there. The problem I have here is that the solution they give you to remove the excess paint inevitably ends up touching the paint that is in the chip. This seems to dull out the paint and now, I have a really terrible match. The paint in the chip looks basically matte black. I apologize for the terrible picture, it's the best I could do. You can tell the discoloration on the left is where the chip used to be.
2) Small rock chip. This is located on my CDC aggressive lip that gets a lot of abuse by virtue of being so low to the ground. This is one of those typical small chips most people get on their front end. My front end has a clearbra except for the CDC lip so this is the best I could find to make a typical example. If you look on the DrColorChip website, this is the type of chips they use as examples for before and after pictures. Why? Because it's the kind it works best on.
First application, you can see where the big white spot is, that's the chip. I didn't put enough the first time to fill it in completely:
After 5 applications:
3) Really bad scrape. I think I hit a protuding manhole cover with this. It caused the lip to flex so much that the paint cracked on the top (you can see it in the next picture). Anyway, you can tell where the paint was missing where I dabbed it. This was something you could see 6 ft away from the car:
And after 5 applications, this is the best it can do. If you see how flat or matte that big chip looks, that's exactly the color that I got on the door chip, even though the door chip was much smaller. The big white streak is reflection. The zigzag is a scratch, and you can tell at the very edge of the lip, it's pretty beat up and the paint wouldnt even stick to all of it, hence the white spots (because that surface was ground on the asphalt and is completely uneven).
Conclusion:
Again, I apologize for the terrible pictures--I wasn't planning on taking any but people on here were curious to try this.
In my opinion, this is an improvement over the normal touch up paints that blob. It's absolutely clear that this goes on much more discreetly and the end result is not bad.
My only complaint is that it does NOT work on large chips as I've shown you. On the other hand, it seems to work well on really small chips but anything larger than a grain of sand does not do so hot. This is sort of obvious from their website too, NONE of the examples they show in pictures have large chips, they are all small chips, those "peppered" spots, otherwise known as road rash.
Verdict:
-Don't use if you have scrapes, scratches, large dings, deep chips.
-Works decent on small tiny chips but for the money, you could save by using regular touch up paint and using a toothpick to apply.
I am going to wait for the paint to cure 100% and then I'm going to keep applying it. I purchased the smallest kit and I have to say, there's a ton of paint there to use. If I had to fix so many chips on my car that I needed the entire bottle, I would just pay the $100/panel and have someone professional paint it over and blend it in.
Would I purchase this again? Probably not. Seeing as black is so easy to paint match, I can't see this thing doing too well on other colors. Is it as pain-free and easy as they claim? No way. The paint removal solution they give you strips ALL the paint if you just wipe normally. You have to be super gentle and basically avoid the chip where you want the paint to stay. I'd rather just buy normal paint and apply it with a toothpick very slowly instead of doing this. Plus, if you get any of the solution onto the paint, it seems to immediately dull it out.
Any questions please ask, I'll try my best to answer! Hope this helps some of you make a decision.
In the future, I will be trying the Langka kit instead--which seems to be their primary competitor.
