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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
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Fixing Imprint Chips is very difficult because there are usually lots of them in varying sizes including very tiny chipped areas.
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You have a term for everything dont you Mike? You rock man!
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...Quote:
Originally Posted by canairb
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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.Quote:
Originally Posted by MattN03
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.
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***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
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Originally Posted by Mike.Phillips@Autogeek
Does it really work though? Like on body panels that have been "blasted" repeatedly with small bits of gravel and such being flung up from the tires when off-roading?
Just had this happen to me :( Happy Halloween!!
:( That sucks to hear!Quote:
Originally Posted by EVOlved