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Old Mar 16, 2003 | 07:52 PM
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I have a paint chip about 1/4 inch long and 1/16 wide. What is the best way to fill it in?

I have never had much luck with the touchup paint. I tried on my wife's Silver TL but it didn't come out as nice as I'd have liked. You can tell it was touched up.

I have a MY02 Sebring Silver. I understand, Silver is very difficult to touch up.

Is there any other way to do this that you've had good experience with?
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Old Mar 16, 2003 | 08:55 PM
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Where is the chip? My experience with touch-up paint is that it only works well in the virtual world, not the real world. What does work is to have a very good body shop repaint the affected panel. However, that's usually not worth it.

I've touched up one spot on mine and my body shop has touched up a few more. They look better but they don't "disappear."
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Old Mar 16, 2003 | 09:01 PM
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Sorry, I have no useful reply, but am also interested in the answer. I've had horrible experiences with touch up paint. To make things worse, I got my first big rock chip this last week. It's all I can stare at when I look at my car. My eyes are drawn to it. I'd like to find a way to make it go away .
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Old Mar 16, 2003 | 09:03 PM
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I need an answer to this question as well; I'd like to ask what can be done about the scratches on the bottom of the factory lip/ front spoiler that, no matter how careful I am, sometimes gets bumped a little on driveway slopes or just around town. Can this area be lightly sanded and retouched?

Thanks for any advice for ralper's and my question...

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