DIY Paint Chip Repair with the Dr.ColorChip Repair System

  • Thread starter Thread starter Fire0nic3
  • Start date Start date
F

Fire0nic3

Guest
I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE DONE TO YOUR VEHICLE BY FOLLOWING THIS GUIDE! DO IT AT YOUR OWN RISK OR LIVE WITH THE ROCK CHIPS HAHA! PLEASE DO NOT POST THIS GUIDE NO WHERE ELSE OR MODIFY IT. Email or PM me with any questions you may have
1



If you are unfamiliar with what Dr.ColorChip is, it's a paint chip repair system. Unlike the dealerships OEM touch up paint, the Dr.ColorChip leaves no blobs while looking almost invisible to the naked eye. Before The system is almost idiot proof too. Basically you just dab the paint on, smear it real quick arcross the chip, then blend the chip in with the provided SealAct blending solution. Basically it removes the touch up paint around the rockchip, but leaves the rockchip filled in with the paint. You can also use an old t-shirt to smear it on if you suffer from road rash. Road rash is tiny micro pitting in the bumper from rocks/sand. It almost looks like freckles, but it's tiny micro rockchips.


Here is the Dr.ColorChip system:

http://www.drcolorchip.com


I purchased the $49 Standard Touch Up Paint Kit. There's also a smaller $39 kit and a bigger $59 kit.

Paint is mixed per OEM specs. I got my paint color which is KH3 (Black Obsidian) with Scratchshield resin mixed in.

Here are some picture's of what the kit comes with:

1/2 oz custom OEM match paint
2oz SealAct™ blending solution
1 microfiber towel
1 ultra paint brush
2 micro brushes
1 chemical-resistant glove
Instruction sheet

cimg2773.jpg


cimg2777v.jpg


cimg2778l.jpg


cimg2781a.jpg



The DIY will be posted tomorrow as my camera has died. So stay tuned......
 
Saw a commercial for this and checked out the website a while ago. Was a little skeptical, but happy to see that it actually works. Definitely want to see the pics, my front end is chipped up.
 
I brought the langka kit. Didn't get good result though =\ maybe I didn't let the touchup paint cure for long enough but the blob emoter solution took most of the paint left. It is still not smooth
 
I was going to get this too, but I heard they only work on very small paint chips. My car had a 2 inch long by 1/8 inch wide scratch, so I just ordered factory paint from TouchUpPaintOnline.com. It worked well and it was only $12 instead of $40. But I am sure these are good for smaller paint chips
 
Fire, any updates with the Dr. ColorChip Repair System? I'm curious how it worked?

About 2 weeks ago I bought the touch up paint from the Infiniti dealership. I've attached pictures for you guys in case you haven't seen it yet. One is the base coat and the other is a lighter shad of the white (top coat). What's interesting also is that they come with brushes, but you can remove it inside and use the end like a pen, which I haven't seen before. I only have a few knicks and seriously don't mind spending the time on each little knick to fix it, but only care to make it as perfect as possible, but for some reason in the past I haven't had much luck, but with a pen type applicator, maybe this will be different?

I'd like to touch up the car before the first snow hits, reason being is to cover up any small metal exposed before salt comes. I want to clay, wax, etc, then do this sometime soon. If the Dr ColorChip really works awesome, then maybe I will just skip over this...don't know....I'm curious about your recommendations.

Here is my experiencees with my previous cars: touch up paint is great for covering up the metal knick or just cover it up fast, but when you get close, you can see it. I would like to accomplish some method of doing it where it is nearly impossible to see it (hoping your expertise will help here! :) ) Anyway, the issues I have had is that typically you can't get enough paint or get too much paint on the knick. If I used a brush, you get one blob, but if you wipe it then dab it on the knick, then it's like not enough paint plus then you end up getting it on the outside of the knick that doesn't need any paint and then can look like a little bump of paint....touch it with some cloth and then too little paint. Then I basically never messed with clearcoat touch up because i never could get the base touch up paint right. On top of that, I never used primer for knick because it's typically a different color and then by the time I try to put the base coat on, it's too much of a blob because of the primer that is already on it.

So now the new improved touch up paint from nissan and your expertise hopefully I can get better at this. Any ideas? :smile (2):

13048256-182.jpg

13048257-ac3.jpg

13048258-9b1.jpg
 
Last edited:
jdTrader said:
Fire, any updates with the Dr. ColorChip Repair System? I'm curious how it worked?

About 2 weeks ago I bought the touch up paint from the Infiniti dealership. I've attached pictures for you guys in case you haven't seen it yet. One is the base coat and the other is a lighter shad of the white (top coat). What's interesting also is that they come with brushes, but you can remove it inside and use the end like a pen, which I haven't seen before. I only have a few knicks and seriously don't mind spending the time on each little knick to fix it, but only care to make it as perfect as possible, but for some reason in the past I haven't had much luck, but with a pen type applicator, maybe this will be different?

I'd like to touch up the car before the first snow hits, reason being is to cover up any small metal exposed before salt comes. I want to clay, wax, etc, then do this sometime soon. If the Dr ColorChip really works awesome, then maybe I will just skip over this...don't know....I'm curious about your recommendations.

Here is my experiencees with my previous cars: touch up paint is great for covering up the metal knick or just cover it up fast, but when you get close, you can see it. I would like to accomplish some method of doing it where it is nearly impossible to see it (hoping your expertise will help here! :) ) Anyway, the issues I have had is that typically you can't get enough paint or get too much paint on the knick. If I used a brush, you get one blob, but if you wipe it then dab it on the knick, then it's like not enough paint plus then you end up getting it on the outside of the knick that doesn't need any paint and then can look like a little bump of paint....touch it with some cloth and then too little paint. Then I basically never messed with clearcoat touch up because i never could get the base touch up paint right. On top of that, I never used primer for knick because it's typically a different color and then by the time I try to put the base coat on, it's too much of a blob because of the primer that is already on it.

So now the new improved touch up paint from nissan and your expertise hopefully I can get better at this. Any ideas? :smile (2):

13048256-182.jpg

13048257-ac3.jpg

13048258-9b1.jpg
Click to expand...



Hmmm I never knew they sold their touch up paint like that in a kit before.:confused:


Sorry I haven't done any updates yet. The temps here dropped like crazy, so it's been too cold to do anything outside the past couple of days. It's going to warm up a little tomorrow, so I'll try to get some pictures of the results either tomorrow or the day after.


But I have used it on another car of mine before and it works really good. It's not a miracle product though. If you happen to know where the chip is it and look for it, you will find it. But to the untrained eye or someone that doesn't know where the chip is at, they probably won't find it. It leaves no blobs either. It just fills the chip in evenly with paint.:tup:
 
It will be interesting to see the resulting pictures. I will do the same.

Anyone have any special techniques they use on touch up paints? :confused:
 
Finally the DIY!!

Soooooo I finally got a chance to do the DIY write up I've been promising you guys. It's been too cold to do it here, and no room to work in the garage to do it either. Finally it's in the 60's here today so I decided to work on it. Enjoy the write up brotha's:tup:



1. You can clearly see how bad this rockchip was. It was so deep it took it it through the paint, primer, and right down to the metal. Your just asking for rust after the winter if this is not taken care of. I'd like to give a special thanks to the shitty Long Island Expressway for having torn up roads:

OUCH!

cimg2981h.jpg



2. First open the provided factory color matched OEM spec paint. In my case it's black obsidian with scratch shield paint:

cimg2983a.jpg


3. Take one of the provided micro brushes and dip in in the provided paint and dap over the chip:

cimg2984m.jpg


4. THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART! After dabbing the paint, you MUST smear it over the chip wearing the provided blue latex glove. I know it sounds scary, but you must smear it. Doing this provides a nice even coat over the chip. It's okay to get the paint all over the surrounding area cause when you use the blending solution later, takes the paint YOU put on off the surrounding area, but leaves the paint in the chip:

cimg2988l.jpg


5. Now that the paint is applied, I recommend you go in for a nice beer or eat lunch while you wait for the paint to dry. You can take it off 5 minutes after applying it, but I recommend leaving it on for atleast 20 minutes or so. Actually you can leave it on for up to 2 hours without using the blending solution to remove it, but 20 minutes should be good enough.

6. Now that it's dried, it's time to use the blending solution. What this stuff does it remove the smeared paint around the chip, but leave the paint in the chip. It also even's it out. DON'T USE ANY OTHER TOWEL OR RAG TO APPLY THE BLENDING SOLUTION. You must use an old cotton t-shirt. Using something like a micro fiber towel would pull the paint out of the chip cause the towels have mini fibers that would go down into the chip and pull the paint out, which in our case we don't want to happen:tdown:. When using the old t-shirt to apply the blending solution, don't rub it too hard over the paint otherwise you will remove too much paint and it'll come out of the chip and you'll have to start this whole process all over again:

cimg2992y.jpg



7. FINALLY YOUR DONE!! Here are my results. As you can see the chip is nearly invisible to the naked eye. Obviously if you try to look for it and stare really really hard in person you would see it "kind of" see it. But 95% no you wouldn't see it.

cimg2993e.jpg


cimg2994.jpg



Remember guys this is not a miracle product. It's just a billion billion times better than regular touch up paint, and comes out "near" perfect.:wink:
 
Looks great...I don't see it...maybe modify the picture to circle out where it actually is?

It's too bad it's already too cold for me....I'll have to wait for the spring to do mine using the blob system...we'll see how that one turns out! But basically same concept. :)
 
Wow, that looks pretty good Fire. Yeah, if you can circle where it is on the pic for comparison will be nice. I can't tell where the fix is. Nice DIY.
 
If I didn't know you, I would say bull, but since I do know you, I would say...dam that worked awesome! I see nothing but perfection
 
jdTrader said:
If I didn't know you, I would say bull, but since I do know you, I would say...dam that worked awesome! I see nothing but perfection
Click to expand...


In person you can see it, but you have to squint very carefully. If this stuff was shitty, i would tell you guys. But in my opinion, it's pretty decent.
 
Nice job Aaron, that works much better than the paint pens like JD has. I had the paint pens for my 05 and 07 G35 and was never pleased with the result. That looks much better.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top