Rock flew up a couple weeks ago, first major rock damage to my car.

It's about the size of two grains of rice put next to each other, but fairly noticible since it's a dark spot on a silver stripe.

Any thoughts on how to touch up? (ie just use silver paint b/c it's on the vinyl?).

My main priority is sealing it off so it doesn't expand or rust, and then secondly the cosmetic aspect.

Thanks

 

i would remove the stripe, touch up the body, let dry for a couple of days and reapply a new stripe.

 

I figure the new '06 'u stripe' is going to be a couple hundred bucks from a dealer?

If so I'd love to consider a less expensive option unless there isn't one.

 

oh, ic... dang. i would use paint in that case but can you even find
the same color?

 

Well the silver stripe matches the roof/mirrors, so I'd assume I could find mini touch-up paint for that color and just touch up the very small area in a color that wouldn't clash with the stripe (yet WOULD potentially be a problem if I ever removed the stripe as the Royal Grey car would have a little Silver dot of touch-up paint on it. Then again I suspect this could be wet sanded down and RG touched up on top of the silver if this were ever an issue.

Again the area is at most 1.5-2 grains of rice thick and probably not evne as long as one grain of rice.

Think I'll try the silver option and then correct later with more money if needbe instead of laying out the couple hundred now for a dealer to re-install the stripe and maybe never need to do this when a tab of silver paint would have worked.