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Originally Posted by ramonesfreak
i’m looking for rock chip protection. in NY if you don’t keep up with touching up chips, salt gets in during winter. and, touch up paint looks like crap no matter how careful i try to be
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PPF is the way to go. Something you might not be aware of, if you have rock chips already on the car and get PPF installed you will see what looks like little bubbles under the film. This is from the divet/chip holding air under the film, nothing you can do other than paint the panel prior to adding PPF. On my 87 since it was all original paint I spent something like 40hrs doing touch up work on all the chips that I could with a 0000 brush, hitting them multiple times to help fill the chip area. Even after all that work I still had those bubbles in the film. A neat trick is to use the touch up paint and add a small dot to the film to cover the bubble. It’ll blend in and be very hard to find, I have a few handful that the PPF install did and some I did myself….and I would be hard pressed to find any of them without putting my face right on top of the film while rubbing it with my fingers to find the paint touch up. Just something to be aware of and depending on the panel….having it sprayed prior to PPF may give you a better look.
CTopher