Imprint Chips - Chips in the paint caused by a thrown egg

[Mike.Phillips@Autogeek]

Imprint Chips - Chips in the paint caused by a thrown egg


When an egg is thrown at a car's painted panel, the force of the shell impacting and breaking up against the paint leaves a very specific type of chip pattern I call Imprint Chips.

Imprint Chips






Fixing Imprint Chips is very difficult because there are usually lots of them in varying sizes including very tiny chipped areas.

[Porsche Pilot]

You have a term for everything dont you Mike? You rock man!

[canairb]

I don't want to know what you did to deserve an egg being thrown at you.

[Mike.Phillips@Autogeek]

Originally Posted by canairb

I don't want to know what you did to deserve an egg being thrown at you.

It was a Halloween night, I'm confident it was just some kids hitting cars in the neigborhood...

[MattN03]

Can you correct the chips?

[Mike.Phillips@Autogeek]

Originally Posted by MattN03

Can you correct the chips?

With touch-up paint it can be done but is very difficult. I would say most people don't have the patience or the skills to create results that look like nothing ever happened and that's what everyone's expectations are, a perfect looking finish.

There are other systems besides little bottles of touch-up paint that may work better such as the Dr. Color Chip system but I have not seen anyone use any system to fix Imprint Chips from a thrown egg.

I've fixed my own Imprint Chips on a 1969 Blazer CST that I owned a number of years ago and it involved carefully filling in the imprint chips with touch-up paint then sanding the paint smooth and then by hand and with a rotary buffer removing the sanding marks and restoring a high gloss finish. The paint on my Blazer was single stage enamel, Hugger Orange to be exact.

[Mike.Phillips@Autogeek]

***Update***

Found a very good picture of Egg Imprint Chips so I added it to this thread.

These types of below surface defects are usually very hard to fix with touch-up paint. This would be a good place for the Dr. Color Chip System.

Dr. Colorchip System