[Spook E]

So i've got a few chips in the bonnet of my car (1977 Leyland Mini), and rang the mobile paint touch-er-up-er to see if he could do anything about it.

His advice to me was to use the pain i've already got (it was recently resprayed and i have the left over paint) to fill in the hole until the paint is built up a little over the level of the bonnet then rub it back with some paint thinner to even it all out.

Has anyone done this before and can offer some words of wisdom? I'm sh!tthing myself at the thought of ruining the paint on the bonnet by doing this.

[Spliffdaddy]

I doubt that paint thinner will have any effect whatsoever on the dried paint. Not sure if you can 'wear down' the paint back to the level of the bonnet's original paint.

If there is no clear coat finish over the base color, then you can wet-sand the paint back to the correct level. I think your best hope is to find a how-to guide on the subject of repairing paint chips.

Seems to me it would be important to make sure your touch-up paint adheres properly. Those little holes are probably full of dirt and wax, which might cause your touch-up paint to come off.

[CMYKid]

more importantly, i would definitely not ever use that guy. for somebody that does that for a living and SHOULD know, thats pretty bad advice.

now, he MIGHT be talking about rubbing compound, not paint thinner, but even that is as much art as science and also is going to depend on exactly how the car was (re)painted.