So my paint is pretty sad looking. Has lots of fine scratches, rock chips, everthing you can think of. Once winter is over it needs a good wash and some detailing.

First off, my tires and teh gravel roads I am on everyday dont mix. I have so many rock chips it looks like my paint fades from a metal color on the bottom up to the black What is the best way to touch them up and make them look good. I was thinking maybe one of those DupliColor (I think) fine tipped pens? Any advice for applying it and making it look nice and even?

Second, the paint fixing/shine. Im thinking of picking up a Quick Clay kit, a bottle of ScratchX, Deep Crystal Polish, and finally I have Gold Class paste wax, which is what I always use, and usually all I do to my paint.

Does that sound like a good combination? And if so, what order do I need to apply them in?

Any tips of advice would be great, thanks!

 

It sounds pretty bad, but those paint touch up pens can be as much a curse as a blessing at times, especially if its lots of chips. I'd have that much done by a local mobile pro with airbrush capabilities.

 

my only advise for reducing the rock chips is drive slow, I drive 15mph on my 1 mile gravel road, then gun it on the street. I never got a rock chip yet luckally.

 

Thanks guys.
Navi, my buddy is a body man and pretty good with an airbrush, maybe I will talk to him about it. Any idea of how exactley they would do it?

Ws6, unfortunatley I have to travel a MINIMUM of 20 miles on gravel road each day, most of the time quite a bit more. And once I do get to pavement, it has quite a few gravel stones scattered on it from vehicles getting the gravel stuck in thier tires then throwing them out on the pavement, plus now in the winter months they spread gravel at the intersections to help with all the snow and ice. Its pretty much impossible to avoid the gravel. Have quite a few chips on the hood/grille shell to from vehicles kicking up gravel when they go past or when I get behind them.

 

Depends on the severity. You can airbrush only so much with bad chips and still look OK. If the majority of the chips are below the door molding, maybe repaint the rockers. A good body man would do it right, and sand down the surface first and then paint it, but airbrushing looks ok for a quick fix. It wouldn't be like car show quality though.

 

Hmm, Ill have to talk with my buddy and see what he has to say.

Repainting the rockers is really not something I would want to do. Just not worth in on this truck, especially with it will look exactley the same a year after it get painted.

Any other tips or ideas from anyone??