:-( chips on door edge

[furryjen79]

Treated my 10 day old DS3 to some Autoglym products today and persuaded my husband to help me clean it only to find some chips on the edge of the drivers door!

Am gutted as have tried to be unbelievably careful!! There's no dents and the chips haven't gone down to the metal so I'm just wondering if I should just use touch up paint or whether I should pay a company like chips away to come and sort it.

It's the nicest thing I've ever bought and I really want to keep it looking good for as long as possible so I'm just worried a bad touch up job is just going to leave me feeling as blue as I feel right now!

Here's a pic of the damage


Do you think touch up paint would do the job OK? Do I need to get into wet sanding etc or do you think the touch up paint and some Autoglym SRP would do the job?

Any tips/advice most welcome?

Jen :-(

[mattds3sport]

personally i had one of these since i had the car but never chased it up just got a touch up pen after lookin at it every day it works a treat i smile everytime i get in now cas i no its not there if not thn autoglym srp is great stuff so giv it a go

[furryjen79]

Thanks Matt! Touch up pen ordered from Citroen today so pick it up Weds.

Will give it a go on Thurs as I'm working from home. Going to see if I can buy a fine paint brush too to apply it. Will give it a few small coats to build it up then go over it with the SRP at the weekend.

[Inreverse]

Treated my 10 day old DS3 to some Autoglym products today and persuaded my husband to help me clean it only to find some chips on the edge of the drivers door!

Am gutted as have tried to be unbelievably careful!! There's no dents and the chips haven't gone down to the metal so I'm just wondering if I should just use touch up paint or whether I should pay a company like chips away to come and sort it.

It's the nicest thing I've ever bought and I really want to keep it looking good for as long as possible so I'm just worried a bad touch up job is just going to leave me feeling as blue as I feel right now!

Here's a pic of the damage [ATTACH=CONFIG]3113[/ATTACH]


Do you think touch up paint would do the job OK? Do I need to get into wet sanding etc or do you think the touch up paint and some Autoglym SRP would do the job?

Any tips/advice most welcome?

Jen :-(

If you apply 2-3 v thin coats with a small, good quality artists brush to just fill the chips, you will not see them.

[mattds3sport]

it should come with tiny brush like a tip ex bottle for you just to dab. aslong as you dont have too much on the brush youll be fine

[furryjen79]

If you apply 2-3 v thin coats with a small, good quality artists brush to just fill the chips, you will not see them.

Thanks Inreverse! Will try to be patient and go for 3 or so thin coats. Gonna feel so much happier when I can't see them anymore!

BTW Chips Away quoted £35+VAT to come out and basically just do exactly whil I'll be doing so definitely going to give it a go myself.

[Markm49uk]

Personally I'd be taking it back to Citroen as a car that's only 10 days old shouldn't have chips like that unless you have been extremely unlucky. - it could be a symptom of poor quality paint job. I'd get it checked out either way.

[Chris_Blue]

How did you get on with your touch up pen Jen?
Got a few stone chips on the bonnet am thinking of tackling
Or could leave them well alone- how you get on with your chips?
Anyone used a SPORT RED touch up pen?
How much from CITROEN?
CBLUE

[B19PPh]

I got a couple of chips similar on my door, would like to see the results of this.
As Chris said above How much for the pen?

[skylaq]

I have the exactly same chipping on my drivers side door

Would love to see the results on your car, to see if I can bother to give it a try.

[Bigfeet]

Personally I'd be taking it back to Citroen as a car that's only 10 days old shouldn't have chips like that unless you have been extremely unlucky. - it could be a symptom of poor quality paint job. I'd get it checked out either way.

You wouldn't get anywhere. Impossible to prove that the door didn't come into contact with an edge, besides chips are excluded from the paint guarantee anyway.

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Furryjen bear in mind that the touch-up pen is a generic batch colour. My suggestion first is to try some out on a clean piece of card and let it dry and then compare, normally you will need to adjust the colour in order to make it match your colour batch better. Use a little bit of silver paint to light and black to darken.

[mattds3sport]

Ive used/got polar white pen for couple of chips on door and it worked a treat even i dont notice them anymore. Also used it for chip on dash under the door lock button and tht works too. Reccomend ! ( atleast for white anyway) and it was bout £7.99 i believe

[Chris_Blue]

Cmon Jen- Speak to us - bout the chipped paint
Yer man seemed decent chap at the National (Hi Man)
CBLUE

[furryjen79]

Lol! Sorry didn't realise this thread had picked up again!!

Pen was just under £8 I think! Also bought some fine paint brushes from hobby craft! Did a decent enough job which is now hidden by the door protectors I bought. Will see if I can get some 'after' shots on tomorrow!

[Chris_Blue]

Cheers Jen- did you get pen from Citroen or ebay?
CBLUE