Touched up a paint chip over the past few days. Seems like it's coming out well, and we'll see what happens this weekend after a wet sand.

However, this chip was to the bare metal. Body shop guys were telling me the factory stuff has rust inhibitors and everything in it and since it's such a small spot (size of a pencil eraser) to just go ahead and touch it up after cleaning out the rust. So that's what i did. But i just noticed the touchup paint calls for primer on bare metal.

If they want you to use primer with touchup... i wondering how this will affect the paint? I see two good ways out, it either A) pops the chip out and i start over with primer, or b) it bubbles in 10 yrs, when i'm likely done with the car or the rest of the paint needs an all over anyways.

Any experienced painters here that can clue me in? I can put some clear over it immediately after sanding down the paint? Then sand the clear?

 

I say just leave it... if it becomes a problem later you can always redo it.

 

if it's down to the metal it's best to sand it, clean it, prime it, and
touch it up.

but ive done touchups directly to bare metal on my beater while
ago and it stayed on though the chicago winter no issue.

if you ever get those touchup paints where it comes in 2 bottles
(base coat, clear coat), you can mix them together 50/50 prior to
the app and get a nice glossy finish.

 

well, i touched it up, but the paint curled :/ So while it's level, it has some dark spots in it. That and the edges of my sanding block sanded down to primer :/ Definitely learned some lessons for next time, but all in all, it wasn't that bad. I hate to have the imperfections on the roof, but the only way to fix it is to spray, and doing the whole roof is around 400-450. I can live with it till something major happens to force a respray