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    Buff paint - before or after touching up chips in paint?

    I have a customer with a red 1957 Chevy. He wants me to polish the paint. He has a few areas that require some touch up due to small chips in the paint. Should he touch up the paint before or after I polish it???

    My concern is that running a buffer over those freshly touched up area's may end up pulling out the touch up paint. Any thoughts?
    -Bob
    NXTti graduate, Meguiars Ford/SEMA Team

    "All Corvette's are red, the rest are mistakes" - John Heinricy (Corvette Engineer)
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    Re: Buff paint - before or after touching up chips in paint?

    I think you're right - you risk damaging the newly touched up areas by polishing them.

    How aggressive are you going? Maybe if you wait a few days to a week or so after the touch up, and are only using a medium - fine polish it would be ok.
    Originally posted by Blueline
    I own a silver vehicle and a black vehicle owns me. The black one demands attention, washing, detailing, waxing and an occasional dinner out at a nice restaurant. The silver one demands nothing and it looks just fine. I think the black vehicle is taking advantage of me, and the silver car is more my style. We can go out for a drive without her makeup and she looks fine. If I want to take the black one out, it is three or four hours in the "bathroom" to get ready.

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      Re: Buff paint - before or after touching up chips in paint?

      From my reading (not personal experience) it takes a long time (few weeks to a month) for touch up paint to fully cure (gas out.) My leaning would be to do a full wash/clay/polish/wax or sealant over the whole car and then apply the touch up the chips after cleaning them out with IPA. This protects the rest of the car and then allows the touch up to fully cure. Maybe Mike Stoops or other senior members can speak to this.

      Originally posted by RDVT4ME View Post
      I have a customer with a red 1957 Chevy. He wants me to polish the paint. He has a few areas that require some touch up due to small chips in the paint. Should he touch up the paint before or after I polish it???

      My concern is that running a buffer over those freshly touched up area's may end up pulling out the touch up paint. Any thoughts?

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        Re: Buff paint - before or after touching up chips in paint?

        Bob, if he does the chip repair a day or so before you machine polish, there shouldn't be an issue. This article shows a paint chip touch up process that was all done in less than a couple of hours and included letting the touch up paint dry, sanding it flat, and machine compounding to remove the sanding marks. If I could do all that in such a short time frame, then having your customer do the touch up even the day before should be more than fine. Heck, it will even allow you to spot sand as needed and then buff out the whole car.
        Michael Stoops
        Senior Global Product & Training Specialist | Meguiar's Inc.

        Remember, this hobby is supposed to be your therapy, not the reason you need therapy.

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          Re: Buff paint - before or after touching up chips in paint?

          Thanks for the input guys!

          Mike-that article is perfect...even the right color.
          -Bob
          NXTti graduate, Meguiars Ford/SEMA Team

          "All Corvette's are red, the rest are mistakes" - John Heinricy (Corvette Engineer)

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