Easily fix paint chips with Dr. ColorChip™ — with VIDEO
Having paint chips professionally repaired at a bodyshop is expensive and inconvenient. A much less expensive, quicker and easier option is to try to fix the damage yourself with touch up paint. Small containers of touch up paint, complete with a self-contained brush and matched to the color code of your vehicle’s paint, are available from auto dealerships. However, it has been my decades-long experience that this does not work very well. The paint does not dry quickly, carefully filling (but not overfilling) the chips is pretty much impossible and removing the dried, excess paint afterwards takes a lot of effort.
A popular alternative is the Dr. ColorChip™ Automotive Touch Up Paint System.
I learned more about this at the Dr. ColorChip™ exhibit, while covering the automotive aftermarket’s 2024 SEMA Show in Las Vegas.
I asked Tony Pando — a senior representative of the company — to demonstrate how to repair paint chips with Dr. ColorChip™ so that I could record a video to share with you. He agreed, and a crowd quickly gathered to watch and learn from this expert. Watch that video here, on the “AutoMatters & More” YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/VYRv-IBc2ww.
Several different do-it-yourself kits, starting at $49.95, are available from the Dr. ColorChip™ website: https://drcolorchip.com.
Dr. ColorChip™ sent me two review samples of their “Squirt ‘n Squeegee™” kit.” Each kit has a bottle of paint that matches one of my two vehicles.
That kit includes a one-ounce bottle of Dr. ColorChip™ paint, a four-ounce bottle of Sealact™ Blending Solution, one white blending cloth, one nitrile glove, one Ultra Paint Brush, two microbrushes and one Flex Clear™ Squeegee (that “makes repairs easy”). You can either enter your paint code on their website, if you know it, or look it up on their website by entering your vehicle’s year, make and model. This is special paint invented by Dr. ColorChip™. It is very sticky, dries very quickly and produces a permanent repair. It sticks to metal, plastic, fiberglass and more. The paint should be good for about a year. Shake it occasionally.
To avoid getting dust and debris in the wet paint, work in a closed garage. First, clean in and around the chips with rubbing alcohol, to help the paint adhere. I used an alcohol wipe from a first aid kit.
After shaking the bottle of paint, generously dab some paint near the chips and then smear it with the rubber glove or flexible squeegee to fill the chips.
About three to four minutes after applying the paint, shake the bottle of Sealact™ Blending Solution and then pour a generous amount of that onto the blending cloth. The cloth should be quite wet — almost to where the solution drips off of the cloth.
This solution is chemically designed to work together with the Dr. ColorChip™ paint. Do not aggressively try to rub off the excess paint. Instead, be gentle and take your time. Let the solution remove it chemically, gently removing the excess paint with an outstretched, flat hand or a squeegee. If the cloth starts to get dry, add more of the solution. Avoid pressing down with your fingers into the chips or you will remove paint from them. If you do, just repeat the process.
It is easiest to remove the excess paint from a flat surface, such as the hood or door panels. However, I used one of the kits to try to fill some rather deep chips in my driver’s-side door jamb, caused over the years whenever I accidentally tried closing the door when the seatbelt buckle had not fully retracted.
The chips were on a 90-degree edge, so it was difficult to remove the excess paint without also removing paint from within several of the chips.
I had to add more paint, wait a few minutes for it to dry and then apply more Sealact™ Blending Solution.
Finish by buffing with the microfiber towel.
Wait at least three days to apply wax — longer before applying a ceramic coating.
Again, watch Tony’s demonstration at: https://youtu.be/VYRv-IBc2ww. For more information and additional videos, and to order Dr. ColorChip™ kits, visit the Dr. ColorChip™ website at: https://drcolorchip.com.
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Jan, this actually looks like a worthwhile product. I’m a high speed driver on many different kinds of roads, and most of my paint chips have occurred across the front of the hood ( bonnet for those on the other side of The Pond). I’ve tried many touch-up methods and none of them worked. .
There was the touch-up brush and the clear coat sealant, the lipstick type applicator and the thick paste… I still have them all in my garage. Some products wouldn’t even stick to plastic panels.
You did a beautiful job on your vertical rocker panel…the paint even looks like the original metallic. I enjoyed the video. The owner must be a chemist and a natural born salesman. It’s too bad he chose a white panel for the demonstration, because from that perspective you couldn’t see the chips.
After a string of 5 Jeep vehicles over the past 30 years, I finally broke down and purchased the vehicle I really wanted for the next ten years, a 2024 Jaguar F-Pace SVR with 550HP from a Supercharged V8. Jaguar is going all-electric in 2026, so this is my last chance to own a beautiful Jaguar ICE. I’m not anti-EV, I just love the sound of a big V8.
NICE Jaguar!
If you try Dr. ColorChip, it might take you a couple of tries to develop your technique for removing the excess paint. Remember to use a light, flat touch so that you just skim the surface and not get down into the chip. If you mess up, the chemical blending solution is pretty effective at removing the special Dr. ColorChip paint.
There is a really good video on their website that shows someone repairing the front end of a car that was pretty badly sandblasted. For that kind of repair, the flexible little squeegee (clear scraper) seems to do a pretty good job moving the paint around and getting it into the little chips.
Jan
Jan,
i don’t know if Dr.ColorChip is being sold here in the Philippines but I’ll watch out or check.
Nice article and for sure the product will be worth giving a try.
Jay
Hi Jay,
Thanks for the comment.
This touch up paint system is pretty easy to use, and it cleans up excess paint easily. You can see from the photos how badly chipped my paint was from the metal seatbelt buckle, and how much better it looked after two tries. It is not perfect but that is probably due to my inexperience using it, combined with the damage being in a location that is not nearly flat.
Perhaps if you order it directly from Dr. ColorChip, they will ship it to the Philippines.
Jan