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Old Apr 21, 2013 | 12:46 PM
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Paint Repair Help 99' Chevy Lumina

my girlfriends car has a few paint chips on the trunk and i need help on how to repair the paint chips, please and thank you!
 
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Old Apr 21, 2013 | 12:56 PM
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here is the paint chips
 
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Old Apr 21, 2013 | 01:02 PM
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Had a car of that era once...they tend to have the rear brakes sieze, then fail safety inspection...it has an early rear disc brake....or most of them did...is $$$ to fix.
as for paint...common issue...that is a paint failure....not a chip. Short of stripping and repainting the whole car, best thing you can do imo is a bit of rust preventing primer from a spraycan...a wet sand, then rattle can spray it....will look ok, and prevent rust....at least the paint is thicker than some BUICKS of the era, where it simply weathered off in the first 6 years on all flat surfaces!!
The failure WILL likly expand....but on a car of that era, the paint is the LEAST of your issues!!
one way to prevent the rear brake siezing is to REGULARLY use the parking brake..keeps stuff moving.
When it siezes, new cables and new caliprers are needed....can total out the car of that age.
 
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Old Apr 21, 2013 | 01:12 PM
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Her driveway is on a big slant so we use the parking brake everyday, but for the paint.. A rattle can as in a GM white paint in a spray can? And what grit should I use for wet sanding? And anytips on how to fade the paint onto the paint that's already on the trunk, so it doesn't look sloppy?
 
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Old Apr 21, 2013 | 01:39 PM
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First lightly sand the area...feather the edges around the failure....
Clean it throughly....
Rattle can some sandable primer...rust resistant.
Went sand it just a tad...smooth it out a bit...
Then use a matching white....again, wetsand...very fine by the edge to blend.
You can always spray a bit more.
had good luck blending white with my old honda after some rust repairs....simplest color to work on.
i would not worry about blending it too much...in the next few month, a much larger area of the paint will fail....you are just making it look a "bit" better for a bit...
Once the paint of that era starts to go....it tends to go fast...
Tend be be pretty solid cars if they have the right v-6, and the brakes on the rear are ok....just the paint can make them look like getto cars pretty fast as it fails....
 
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Old Apr 21, 2013 | 01:42 PM
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For paint...look at the code on the door/glove box...
Dupli-color tends to be pretty common....but just be sure to throughly clean between steps.
 
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 04:48 AM
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thanks a lot! im going to try this out this weekend ill post a picture to show how it came out!
 
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 04:54 AM
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Old Apr 22, 2013 | 01:46 PM
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yes - take a good look at that web site

you can get your color code for paint matching

and there are 'how to' videos

you don't have chips, you've got some significant repair areas . . .
 
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