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Old May 23, 2013 | 09:51 PM
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So I have a bunch of rock chips in my front bumper, particularly along the bottom edge. Is there anything I can do to try and clean this up, or would I just need to pay to have the whole bumper repainted?

Note- This picture was taken after a car wash, and I polished and waxed the whole car a week ago.
 
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Old May 28, 2013 | 05:37 PM
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repaint would be best
 
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Old May 28, 2013 | 05:46 PM
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Sure you could repaint the whole bumper but before you lay down $350+ try carefully using touch up paint. Seriously doubt if it will be seen on the bottom lip. If I had my KurumaZ bumper painted every time I got a rock chip she'd never leave the body shop.
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Old May 28, 2013 | 05:48 PM
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that is alot of chips to be trying to touchup. on top of that is white one of the hardest colors to touch up good luck
 
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Old May 29, 2013 | 03:07 AM
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Sure you could repaint the whole bumper but before you lay down $350+ try carefully using touch up paint. Seriously doubt if it will be seen on the bottom lip. If I had my KurumaZ bumper painted every time I got a rock chip she'd never leave the body shop.
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That's kind of my worry...with so many rocks in the mountain west if I had it repainted I would cry as soon as another rock hit it. I have had my windshield repaired twice in the past year from rock chips. I'm sure the bumper takes more hits than the windshield.

Is there a Nissan/Infiniti touch-up paint?

saywat, I guess the picture is a little misleading. It's silver, not white.
 
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Old May 29, 2013 | 12:44 PM
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If i showed you my front bumper you would cringe. My car is black, but after about 120K miles mostly spent at 80MPH on the highway, the front bumper looks grey at times because of the number of rock chips in my bumper and hood.


I'd do a happy dance if my bumper looked as good as yours.
 
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Old May 29, 2013 | 02:38 PM
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Oh I know it could be a lot worse. I actually just detailed my car a week before taking this picture which is why it looks pretty good. But still, these chips are kind of big.
 
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the thing with touchup paint is when theres that many instead of having a bunch of off color chips when ur done with the touchup ull have matching color chips. it wont disappear and ull still know its there lol
 
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