So like a great big dumba$$, I went for a drive up a moutain- wait that's not dumb S2000's are built for driving in the hills. Only problem was there was some snow on the ground and the road was heavily sanded. I figured the lower half of the car was protected by sand, but lo and behold when I washed my car today I damn near broke down and cried. The panels behind the front tires and ahead of the rear tires were slightly sandblasted It looks as though the sand went clear to the primer coat. So I figured that I'd run down to Honda to pick up some touch up paint. I've never done this so please feel free to let me know if I'm doing this right . #1 clean/wash car with dawn type soap. #2 Apply touch up paint with finest artist type brush I can get my hands on. #3 wet sand area with 1500 grit wet/dry sandpaper(wet)? Is this too coarse? #4 Apply 1 million coats of zaino. #5 pray

 

Langka was mentioned as a better alternative to wet sanding on taking down the pimples. If you read the whole scary paint chip repair thread, the pros piped in on using langka.

http://www.langka.com/

You still need to get a porter cable to do the polish thing right tho. Goodluck on whatever method you use

 

Thanks for the tip - I saw that product mentioned a few times in other threads, it seems as though 50% of the users seem happy with the results and the other 50% are let down. At this point anything will look better.

 

P.s., your repair job turned out amazing.

 

a pc job on a berlina turns out the best of all . I loved the way my NFR turned out!

 

I am afraid of doing this same thing. Is there a way to prevent this other than not driving in the winter months? Perhaps some type of mud flap, side skirt, clear film???

 

Yeah, don't go if there's snow. After reading numerous posts on this forum, and talking to Honda's paint and body shop, I decided to repair the damage myself.#1 I cleaned the car.#2 buffed with Mothers clay bar system - which in turn removed alot of what I thought was imbedded sand. #3 touched up areas that were hit bad with factory touch up paint. #4 Refinished the car with a nice coat of zaino. My baby looks better now ,than the day I brought her home from the dealer. I am now looking at getting ahold of some kind of mudflaps (if there are any) as to avoid this mess again. Huge Props to the clay bar -saved me about $300-$400.

 

jhoostoy- if you did remove sand with your clay, be sure to trash that clay. not worth scratches when you go to clay next time (from embedded clay).

this post reminds me of the mudflaps that someone put on their car. actually did not look bad- he had them on with ssr gt-3s, and he put on the flaps for looks... but sounds like they might help with the problem in this thread.
anyone know who this was? there was a post about this several years ago with pics and info as to where he got the flaps.

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search long enough and you can find anything!!!
THE mud flap post :

http://forums.s2ki.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=39875

 

Thanks for the advice wanabe- The clay bar does look like hell now, so I will dafinitely discard. Have you used the bar on your S2000 yet ? Man, it does wonders for it especially with a nice coat or two of zaino behind it.