Chipex
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No very impressed.
My wife's Dacia got scratched (possibly keyed) while parked up and has a few scratches that go through to the primer but not to the metal. I spent an hour or so with the ChipEx kit trying to get rid of these scratches. The experience was not the straightforward, hassle-free task I was hoping it would be. Even after filling and wiping the scratches multiple times (about 6 - 7) for each scratch, the scratches were still very obvious. What's worse, it looks beautiful when the paint first goes on but after the paint dries, it is much lighter and flatter than the surrounding paint so, if you don't wipe it off completely it is very obvious, worse, if you do wipe it sufficiently to get rid of the excess paint, there is a very real chance that you will take paint out of the scratch as well. I made sure to wipe over the scratch using the cloth dampened with the solution and wrapped around the little foam block supplied and also made sure that I was bridging the scratch to that the edge of the foam wasn't dipping into the scratch. Didn't make much of a difference what direction I went in. I am planning to wait for the next dry, pleasant day to have another go at it to see if I can build it up layer by layer. My wife tells me that it looks better than it did (which is why it gets 3 stars - keeping her happy is the number one priority) but I am not convinced that this isn't a bit of a rose-tinted opinion. It didn't look a lot different to me. I could still easily see the scratch afterwards and it was definitely not full of the touch-up paint. The scratch was a bit deep but it's hardly a trench; Luke Skywalker won't be flying down it thinking that he's on his way to blast the Death Star, for example so, while I appreciate that this needs a bit of work, I would have thought that it could be built up more easily that it is. I guess that, at least, the scratch is now nominally blue instead of primer white. Not mega impressed.