Anybody found a good way to deal with rock chips? Especially on a dark (black) car it is visible after thoroughly cleaning the car. I was thinking about buying those small paint bottles to fill up the rock chips? Does anybody has experience with that? ... Are there other better ways to deal with that? I would only do the paint on the metal though; there are too many of 'em on the bumper...
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Touch-up paint will work, but it never looks great. Even with a great deal of patience with Langka. It's up to you if you want to spend the time to do it. Wax has to be stripped off first, so you should've done this before you had the car detailed. 
If you've got a lot of chips, you might just wait until you decide it's time to repaint the hood (and bumper cover), then put Xpel on it.
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Quote: Wax has to be stripped off first, so you should've done this before you had the car detailed.
. | Ooops  There really aren't that many on the hood; it's probably like five or something. I didn't even see 'em before the detail. The bumper is a little worse but I could indeed repaint that sometime later. Any idea on the cost of painting a bumper? Would you notice a color difference with the rest of the car?
Apart from that, I'm pretty happy with the detail job! He did a great job!
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Quote: | Ooops There really aren't that many on the hood; it's probably like five or something. I didn't even see 'em before the detail. The bumper is a little worse but I could indeed repaint that sometime later. Any idea on the cost of painting a bumper? Would you notice a color difference with the rest of the car? | Price for repainting will vary from shop to shop, and what you have them do. I'm about to have my bumper cover repainted, and a new trunk license plate panel painted. I'm having them strip the bumper cover and patch it up before primer and paint. $397 total for the bumper cover work and the license plate panel.
I've not been able to identify color differences for any of the work this shop has done on my car to date. They've repainted both bumper covers before (rear more than once), and a rear fender. But those kinds of issues vary for different paint colors, age, etc.
If you're going to do touch-up work, Langka is very handy.
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Touch up paint can be done and look good. They do it at HC every year. But they use a very small artist's type brush, and use several coats to fill up the chip/scratch and ONLY the chip/scratch. Most of the bad look from touch up pant is the paint added over teh existing paint
Also they buff the area with a buffer and mild compound after touching up.
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Repaint the bumper and clear-bra the crap out of it. I'm having this done at a cost of around $650 plus clear-bra when I add my ACS flippers. The hood was already clear-braed but has taken some hits above it so I will have a local air brush touchup guy fix those, that costs about $80 and is done much as Pinecone describes.
It sucks have nice cars in Colorado! 
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