Chips on the hood, body - how to remove chips from the car body

No matter how carefully the driver drives, he is not immune to various little troubles, when pebbles fly out from under the wheels of cars and leave chips on the hood and wings. The situation is not very pleasant - small scratches, dents appear on a smooth paintwork, the paint cracks, exposing the factory primer, and sometimes chips reach the metal itself.

All this threatens with the fact that over time the body will be subject to corrosion, unless, of course, measures are taken in time.

How to clean chips from the hood and other parts of the car body?

First of all, you need to figure out what chips are, they can be:

• shallow - only the top layer of the paintwork is affected, while the base paint and primer remain untouched;
• small scratches and cracks when the primer layer is visible;
• deep chips reaching the metal;
• chips, dents and old damage that has already been touched by corrosion.

If you go to a car service, then all these damages will be removed for you in a short time, that even a trace will not remain, but there is nothing to worry about if you try to remove them yourself.

Shallow scratches and cracks can be removed with a colored pencil, which is selected according to the paint number. The paint number of the car is located under the hood on the plate, but if it is not there, then you can remove the gas tank flap and show it in the cabin. The scratch is simply painted over with a colored pencil, and then the entire affected area is covered with a protective polish, which will subsequently protect against chipping.

If the chips are deep, reaching to the ground or to the metal, then you have to make a little effort:

• completely wash the entire car or at least the place of damage and degrease it with acetone or solvent;
• if rust appears or the paintwork begins to crack and crumble, you need to clean this place with “zero” sandpaper;
• apply a layer of primer, dry, sand with sandpaper and repeat 2-3 times;
• paste over the damaged area with masking tape with a cutout slightly wider than the crack itself and paint over it with spray paint, trying to spray it in such a way that there are no drips, for this you need to carefully read the instructions;
• paint must be applied in several layers, waiting for the previous layer to dry;
• at the end of the process, everything must be carefully rubbed with sandpaper so that the painted area does not stand out.

It is worth noting that different experts offer their own methods of dealing with chips and cracks on the hood. So, if the chip touched the base paint, but did not reach the primer, then you can pick up the enamel of the corresponding color and literally “impose” it into the recess with a match or a wooden toothpick. When the enamel dries, sand the damaged area and varnish it, and then polish it so that the painted chip does not stand out on the body.

It will be much more difficult to remove damage caused by hail or large gravel, when not only cracks, but also dents form on the surface.

You can even out the dent by lightly tapping a rubber mallet on a wooden bar attached on the opposite side of the damaged body element - the work is very meticulous and, in the absence of experience, you can damage the hood even more.

And then everything goes according to the same scheme:

• a layer of putty is applied and polished;
• soil layer;
• directly enamel;
• grinding and polishing.

It is almost impossible to avoid the appearance of chips, we can only advise polishing the car with special protective agents that will protect the paintwork from minor damage and corrosion.

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