Need a little help. After driving my car now for over year I have sustained several chips on the front of my hood from rocks. Is there a shop that anyone can recommend in the DC/VA/MD area who can fix these chips in the paint without having to paint the entire hood?

I was going to get some touch up paint from my dealer but they said that since some of the chips are down to the primer, I should just get professional help instead.

Again any help in this matter is greatly appreciated.

 

My uncle paints cars so I've had some discussion with him about stuff like this. The thing is, most paint is metallic. Depending on how close the painter can match the paint depends on how far up the hood he has to fade from new paint to old to make the metal flake look like it matches up. All paint fades but a good painter can compensate for fade. I'd say from a painter's point of view, they could just paint a part but it would be much easier for them to take the whole hood off and paint it rather than attempt a tricky fade. Any reason why you wouldn't just paint the whole hood?

BTW, since you'll need to repaint at least part of it anyway, the touch up paint is a good idea. Seals the damage area and prevents the chip from growing larger.

 

I have a guy over in Nokesville, VA that does good good work for cheap, PM me if you need any details on that...He painted the RHD Toyota Soarer thats around here and did my friends GC8 to perfection

 

Thanks for the suggestions. I'm actually going to see a guy here locally to me and have him look at my hood. Worst comes to worst then I'll just get the whole hood painted.

 

yeah i need some work done to my civic. Wish i new someone who does it under the table and for cheap. Body shops are crazy ridiculous w/ their prises.

 

AMSTuning can recommend a good shop near them...does some work for the guys on Team Emotion, so its gotta be quailty.