Elimination of damage from stone impacts

While driving, fine dust and pebbles fly towards your Fiesta, which causes micro cracks in the paintwork on its front. This happens most often in winter, when an icy crumb flies. In this case, you can use a protective paste and then polish the surface. Damage from stone impacts does not pose a great danger. Also, a light parking collision with scratches and marks is not a cause for frustration. Often such places, as well as foreign paint, are easily polished with a paint cleaner or polish.

Elimination of minor damage from stone impacts

Many manufacturers offer practical repair kits for minor stone impact damage. They are easy to use - like nail polish. Usually it is a varnish that is squeezed out in droplets. With it, you can fill impact craters with rocks of any depth. With a normal paintwork and minor damage, wax rods that have the color of your car paint will also help. The repair wax only lasts a few washes and needs to be reapplied afterwards. If you have forgotten the designation of the paintwork and the code of the car's paint, this is not a problem: these data are encoded in the number code in the vehicle's data sheet.

Repairing damaged paintwork

Damage to the paintwork should not be ignored, as under adverse conditions such as moisture and heat, corrosion can begin after a few days. Therefore, repair damage to the paintwork as soon as possible. If rust has been spreading unchecked for months and years, the sad result will be large craters or rust holes in the metal of the body. In this case, only thorough repair and restoration work, which is not described in this manual, will help.

Essential Tools for Repairing Paint Damage

To repair damage to the paintwork, you must have:

• sticky tape;
• newspapers or film;
• sanding block made of wood or cork for grinding along the plane;
• sandpaper of various grain sizes;
• spatula and putty; hardener; spray putty for leveling the surface;
• primer as a basis for a new paintwork;
• cover varnish in the color of the car;
• paint cleaner, preservatives and polishes.

SEQUENCE OF WORK

1. Using a needle or a watch screwdriver, remove the raised edges of the lacquer around the damaged area.

2. Carefully remove rust with a small penknife. Then put a drop of rust converter on this place and wait about an hour.

3. Clean the damaged area with lacquer thinner and dry thoroughly.

4. Use a pipette or fingernail to apply a thin layer of primer reactive paint. The paint must dry well.

5. Using a fingernail or small plastic knife, apply a little putty to the damaged area. Remove excess putty around the damage immediately with a cloth. The putty should dry well.

6. If you applied too much putty, attach a piece of fine-grained sandpaper to the end of the pencil and, by rotating the pencil, carefully remove the excess putty.

7. Spray some nail polish into the nail polish cap and wait 1 minute. Apply slightly dried varnish with a fingertip or a thin brush to the damaged area in a very thin layer.

8. Completely dry varnish (in summer after two days, in winter after five days) polished on a large surface with a polish or paint cleaner.