11-15-2016, 11:04 PM | #1 |
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Would like some advice on a paint chip touch-up and seat cleaner
Hey guys, I could use some advice on touching up a paint chip. While I was sitting in my car an elderly lady backed straight into it and lightly scratched up the front bumper. I feel like I can more or less polish/buff out most of the scratches as I can't feel anything when I run my hand over them, however there is one chip in the paint. Would it be too extreme/unnecessary to remove the whole front end and have it re-painted as I've been told would have to be done? The other option that I think I'm leaning toward more is just buying some touch up paint from Chevy and fixing it myself. Any tips/suggestions would be greatly appreciated, fortunately I did get insurance information from her so if I do end up re-painting it that wouldn't really be an issue.
Also the force of the impact cause my passenger to spill a little bit of the drink she was holding onto the perforated seat. I sprayed some Mequiar's Gold Class Leather Cleaner on the seat when I got home (about 7 hours later...) and let it soak in for a few seconds before wiping it off. I'm a bit concerned the drink seeped through the perforations and made it's way to the foam as I didn't have anything on hand in the car to use to wipe it up other than some printer paper which wasn't terribly useful at absorbing the spill, but I did wipe it down with some wet paper towel as soon as we got to our destination. Is there anything else I can/should do to make sure I took care of it? Thanks for any help/suggestions. |
11-15-2016, 11:53 PM | #2 |
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What was the drink?
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11-16-2016, 06:37 AM | #3 | |
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11-16-2016, 12:19 PM | #4 | |
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It was a can of redbull. |
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11-16-2016, 12:23 PM | #5 |
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Remember the seats are plastic and not leather. They are leather underneath but a plastic coating on top of them, you can't get to the leather. So you're cleaning plastic.
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11-16-2016, 03:04 PM | #6 |
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Yeah, I used that product because I had it left over from my previous car and had purchased it before learning about all the plastic coating on leather seats these days. I figured it was still better than just water for cleaning out the stuff that made it's way into the holes.
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Never wet sand edges, the least amount of paint on the exterior is always located on them. You can go through it quickly.
For the size of chip you have, I'd use your touch up paint, then use Langka Blob Eliminator to smooth it out.
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I'm planning to use Poorboys natural look all around in the interior including the leather seats, should be ok? |
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11-18-2016, 12:57 PM | #9 |
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I've had great success on chips with DrColorChip.com
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