Rock Chip, how to deal with it?
 

My hood has a number of rock chips that are quite visible. Clay bar and wax won't help cleaning the dirt out. I used q-tips, it's alright but not perfect.

I have talked to a guy at a shop and he said there are ways to polish the rough edge of a rock chip. Of course he didn't show me how. Is there DIY way to do it?

If you want to repair the chip then cleaning it out (toothpick, small pit of sand paper), fill with paint. Then use a small hole punch on some wet/dry sandpaper, superglue it to the end of a pencil (eraser end) and sand it down with that. You can level it using this and then polish it back to a nice shine after.

If not, then clean it out, touch it up and forget about it.

no need to buy special type of wax or no need to use rotary buffer, right?

No special wax or polisher needed. HOWEVER if you do any sanding it is a heck of a lot easier to correct those scratches with a polisher than by hand.

If you just touch them up very carefully with some paint and leave them then you need nothing special to do that other than the paint.

okay, I will give it a try the pencil trick next week.


I would like someone to explain what is "cut the paint" or "to cut it with a polisher". From I read on google, it seems like tripping the existing clear coat? to remove surface scratch? Can someone explain, what is a proper way to maintain the paint?

EDIT: okay, autogeek.com is pretty informative site, I've read that site the whole afternoon. I'll need cutting compound with wool or wave foam pad --> polish with wool pad --> wax with regular foam pad for best result.