Stone chip repair options
Discussion
Afternoon all,
My partner will shortly be collecting a new to her, second hand car. It's a Nissan Qashqai that is around a year old. The car is in excellent condition apart from a single small stone chip to the rear passenger door.
I know that Nissan will sell us a touch up pen and clear coat but I'm wondering if it would be best to take it to a local detailer or use a mobile company like ChipsAway and get them to do it properly. The stone chip is small but, now that we have seen it, it catches your eye all the time.
The dealer we are buying from have offered to 'touch it in' before we collect the car but I'm guessing this will just be using the same touch up pen and clear coat solution that they would sell to me.
Thoughts and ideas on cost appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
My partner will shortly be collecting a new to her, second hand car. It's a Nissan Qashqai that is around a year old. The car is in excellent condition apart from a single small stone chip to the rear passenger door.
I know that Nissan will sell us a touch up pen and clear coat but I'm wondering if it would be best to take it to a local detailer or use a mobile company like ChipsAway and get them to do it properly. The stone chip is small but, now that we have seen it, it catches your eye all the time.
The dealer we are buying from have offered to 'touch it in' before we collect the car but I'm guessing this will just be using the same touch up pen and clear coat solution that they would sell to me.
Thoughts and ideas on cost appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Get yourself a touch up and carefully fill chip using a cocktail stick (never use the brush) let it dry and fill again till nearly level with existing paint finish off with the clear coat, it will never be invisible but just as good if not better than a smart repair at a fraction of the cost.
Edited by Iceblue on Monday 2nd February 17:22
If its only a year old get the dealer to do it to a standard you are satisfied with, any 'touch up' is going to be visible and if your not happy when they have done it tell them, and they should be doing a proper respray to get it to the standard it should be to sell it to you.
Touch up pens are a rip off, you are getting a couple of ml of paint and some gloss enhancer, clear coat needs a hardener to mix with it so all you are getting is 1K gloss which isn't clear coat.
If you accept the car like that there is no going back to the dealer, get them to do it and moan if its not a good job, you will be paying a lot of money, it is there responsibility, not yours.
Touch up pens are a rip off, you are getting a couple of ml of paint and some gloss enhancer, clear coat needs a hardener to mix with it so all you are getting is 1K gloss which isn't clear coat.
If you accept the car like that there is no going back to the dealer, get them to do it and moan if its not a good job, you will be paying a lot of money, it is there responsibility, not yours.
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