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Originally Posted by shadoquad The Z's paint is soft. No, actually its very brittle .................!! My 03 350 paint was the same way

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Old 08-20-2010, 04:02 PM   #1 (permalink)
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The Z's paint is soft.
No, actually its very brittle.................!! My 03 350 paint was the same way

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No, actually its very brittle.................!! My 03 350 paint was the same way

Thats where you went wrong. Should of bought an 04.5
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Old 08-20-2010, 04:06 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Thats where you went wrong. Should of bought an 04.5
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thats not good.
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I had the same spot but on the exact opposite side. A little touch up paint and it's good to go

Yea, Nissan's paint is soft, brittle..whatever you wanna call it..it's kinda crappy IMO but the car in general looks sweet. Just get it done in Lamborghini paint or Rolls Royce paint ( which I've seen the documentary on it and it was insane...I think the car costs so much becuz of the paint job!)
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where is it located? i thought our cars were made of aluminum?
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where is it located? i thought our cars were made of aluminum?
Just the hood,doors and maybe rear deck lid(verify)
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hey guys, i have a little chip on my door. where can i get some good touch up paint? (2009 370z yellow)
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where is it located? i thought our cars were made of aluminum?
you're looking at the passenger side fender where it meets the headlamp, i think. the fender is not aluminum...
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I had the same spot but on the exact opposite side. A little touch up paint and it's good to go
I'm pretty sure you don't want to just apply touchup paint to a rusted spot. I think the rust can still spread underneath the paint.
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I've had a spot similar to this and I took a small tip on the dremel and sanded out just the rust leaving the rest of the paint as is, then filled up the chip with touch up paint and it worked out very nice. Just make sure you are extremely careful not to extend the damage into your other paint and it works quite effectively.
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If the chip is small enough that you can't get a small tipped attachment of a dremel inside of it, how on earth do you have enough room to sand? While it might be overkill, taking the few seconds to dremel out the rust in my experience is much easier than trying to work sand paper in such a small area. I've found the small tips of some of the grinding attachments worth the best in tigh areas. The sanding attachements are much too large for this type of application. But hey, I'm just a computer programmer that likes to detail.
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If the chip is small enough that you can't get a small tipped attachment of a dremel inside of it, how on earth do you have enough room to sand? While it might be overkill, taking the few seconds to dremel out the rust in my experience is much easier than trying to work sand paper in such a small area. I've found the small tips of some of the grinding attachments worth the best in tigh areas. The sanding attachements are much too large for this type of application. But hey, I'm just a computer programmer that likes to detail.
So am I!

You want to slope off the edge of the chip, not just clean it out. This will help in the appearance of the fixed area. That's why sandpaper is your better option.
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I'm still confused as to how you can get and agitate sand paper enough to get into a lower surface area the size of a small chip. Whether or not you want to slope off the edges or not, actually getting into the chip enough to get rust out like that with paper to me sounds like it would be terribly difficult. Especially without damaging and scuffing up the paint around it. Granted I don't work with sand paper much, but I've done a little.
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you just fold the sandpaper and use the edge to get into the chip.

junkman might be right about the average joe...
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