This is knot on my 66 thankfully.It is on my 93 Tauras.I first started sanding the small chipps with 1500 wet paper to smoothen them out.Then I started to build up the paint just higher than the surrface.I have tryed wet sanding the spot with the 1500 just not leveling down.What grit should i try next without going through the top coat.Any pointers would help big time here.Thanksssss. PS I am using tuch up paint with the little brush in the tube.

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Don Pell 66 396Beaumont.
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Don, first of all you shouldn't have sanded the chip out. This is a brush touch not a spray repair. What you do is get a nice amount of paint on the brush and touch the bottom of the hole that is the chip. The paint will "fall" off the brush into the hole. DON'T TRY TO SPREAD IT OUT, it will flow out to fill the hole. Then it will be a little high, LET IT DRY COMPLETELY, when all the solvents flash off it will be lower than the surounding paint and you will probably need to give it another application.

Try that on any chips that are left. But now with sanding the brush touch you have. The trick is to use a little tiny block. Many painters use a wood stir stick broken down to a little 1/2" by 1" or 1" by 1" piece. I personally use my little 1" wide rubber sanding block that I made by sawing a 3x5" regular old rubber sanding block in half (well not really in half, I make both one inch and two inch wide blocks out of a 3x5" one).

Now the trick is to not sand the surounding area!! If you have this little block you can watch what you are doing and concentrate all the contact of the sand paper on ONLY the little bruch touch you have applied.

I don't know how high it is but I have used everything from 600 to 1500 for this job. I find that you usually need at least 1000. If you use too fine a grit, you have to work so much longer that you have a higher chance of sanding the good paint in the surrounding areas and blowing the job. So if you go courser than you would think, but sand ONLY the brush touch, you can do it quickly without any damage to surrounding paint. Then just go up to a finer grit BEFORE you have it completely sanded flat.

Do the first ones on the least seen area, not the most comfortable to sand.

Just watch what you are doing VERY CLOSELY and you can pull it off.


Patience NOT skill or experiance will do the job here!

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Thankssss for the tips Martinsr.I am still trying to perfect this repair.i must admit the repair does look better than when i first started.Some of the chipps i had to sand because the paint was lifting.Wish me luck.

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Once bitten twice shy.
Don Pell 66 396Beaumont.
Once bitten twice shy