Stone chips down to the metal - how to treat?

[Matt UK]

Noticed that when the little Toyota was used as a dawn-raid motorwary hack for a few months it has picked up some stone chips on the bonnet and they seem to be down to the metal

Poor paint I know, but hey, it's a town car not a L3 warrior so my fault I suppose...

How should I treat them? Not too fussed about how good it looks as we'll keep it in the family as a useful little shopping car, more want to make sure that I don't start getting metal corrosion / rust spots coming through so early in it's life.

What DIY products / method would you use?

[Polrules]

Not sure about DIY products, but I'd be off to Toyota for some touch-up paint, Halfords do a touch-up 'kit' but I've never gone to the bother of primer/paint/laquer myself. So long as the paint goes on the metal and stops oxygen getting in it should be ok.

[dogbucket]

Just use a bit of touch up paint from the dealer.

There are various methods for flattening back the resultant blob of paint once dryed to make it less visable like sanding with 2000 grit. But probably a bit hairly for a beginner. So just build it up slowly filling the chip without putting to much in. Try buying small modelling brushes instead of using the brush supplied with the touch up paint for more precision.

[Matt UK]

thanks

If a bit of paint stops the process, job done.

Just didn't want to do that and the be surprised next year when I'm getting brown rust spots and bubbles coming through.