Hi all

I have discovered a nasty stone chip on my drivers front wing of my IS200. It looks like a trolley may have dinged it in the supermarket, there is no dent - it has just took the paint down to the lacquer. The car is mint inside and out so want the chip repaired properly.

I was considering chipsaway but having read forums on the internet I have heard they can sometimes be useless. What do you think?

Can anyone recommend to me the best and most cost effecive way of repairing the chip so it appears as if it was never there. I know it is easily said get the whole thing resprayed at a bodyshop, but does getting a chips repairer at a fraction of the cost result in shoddy work? This I want to avoid

Thanks in advance for any advice
Dave

[quote name='coseydave' date='22 July 2010 - 08:09 PM' timestamp='1279829389' post='727317']
Hi all

I have discovered a nasty stone chip on my drivers front wing of my IS200. It looks like a trolley may have dinged it in the supermarket, there is no dent - it has just took the paint down to the lacquer. The car is mint inside and out so want the chip repaired properly.

I was considering chipsaway but having read forums on the internet I have heard they can sometimes be useless. What do you think?

Can anyone recommend to me the best and most cost effecive way of repairing the chip so it appears as if it was never there. I know it is easily said get the whole thing resprayed at a bodyshop, but does getting a chips repairer at a fraction of the cost result in shoddy work? This I want to avoid

Thanks in advance for any advice
Dave
[/quote]hi dave ur rite to be a little wary some ov these body specialists or so called specialists have just not got any finese,i have just had the stone chips done on my bonnet an resprayed and not very happy at all as it seems all cloudy in different lights so i will be telling him to sort it out on monday,as to ur question dave carnt rec any 1 but be very carefull who u use.lee

try smart repairs wizard of wheels they are good they do everything

If your car's silver then sometimes chipsaway (and other similar smart repairers) can't get a perfect match, on other colours though it's not too bad usually. We had some damage on a leon repaired by Chipsaway a few years ago and it was excellent, was impossible to tell it had been repaired.

The only other way would be a full respray of the panel which would obviously cost a lot more.

they are good

Hi, my experience is that most good, responsible and honest smart repair people will not attempt to smart repair a stone chip or scratch in the middle of a large area, wing, bonnet, boot lid ect..the only way to get a good looking repair is to have the hole panel re sprayed