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has anyone tried this? looks somewhat promising

I doubt it works any where near like it says it does. Even if you have panels painted by a body shop with the OEM color the never 100% match. What this product is pormising is almost impossiable expecially with a paint brush. The best touch up paint is OEM Honda touch up paint IMO.

i need to get my hands on something like this... real bad

in the pictures though i can see exactly where the chips used to be, so im guessing it's like touch up paint but it just puts the paint where it needs to go. instead of in the chip and the surrounding area.

A touch up paint pen from honda does the same if your neat with it.

Ehh.  I'm just having my car repainted.

I just purchased this for both the Porsche and the Honda. I will let you guys know how it goes.

Try it on the Honda first!

Please, please take before and after pics, there are quite a few debates on the internet b/w dr. colorchip and langka.

if it works then im definitely buying some. my passenger fender around my headlight has been lit up.

I will take before and after pics and do a complete write up. It will be a little bit as I am waiting for my order to come in. I read a LONG article back and forth from others about Langka versus this stuff too. I will definitely do the Honda first LOL. I have SSM so I am thinking it will come out pretty good and the pcar is midnight blue, so probably even harder to tell where the repairs were done, but I think the B&A pics would be better on the SSM. I promise to take some B&A and post a full review. Whenever I get my order...

So I received the Dr. ColorChip kits today. One for the Honda and one for the Porsche. I did take before and after pictures, but it really did not make much sense to spend more time editing pictures and posting them, when I can tell you the results and you don't need pictures to prove it. This is a big disappointment.

The chips on the plastic, barely fill in and are still very noticeable after applying the product. Granted some of the plastic marks that were black before are now silver, you can still clearly see this is a paint chip. Unless I am applying it incorrectly, to which I followed the directions step by step, I can say I would not recommend getting this for your car. I am bummed to say the least as I had hopes of this being a winner.

I have not given up all hope, because I will still attempt to try it on the Porsche for a couple of small marks, seeing as that is a dark color car and perhaps it will be less noticeable with some paint in the chips. I will contact Dr. ColorChip and get their advice on what I might have done wrong, but for now, a big thumbs down.

So another update. After doing a little more research, I have come to learn that Silver, White and Gold color cars are much harder to use this product on then darker color cars. Evidently, it is better to use the very small paint brush they include with the kit to apply the paint and let it dry and sit this way, without going through the added stress of smearing and using the SealAnt. So tomorrow, I will try it again on some of the spots that did not come out so good to see if this technique makes a difference. I am too tired and it is getting too dark to do it now. This gives me some hope back with the Porsche outcome as I have very few chips on that car and it is going in next week for a clear bra.

Sorry to hear your frist attempt didn't work out that well Scott.  I hope to hear that you have better success at your second attempt with using the paint brush.  Please keep us updated.

yeah i figured that lighter colors would be harder to fix. especially chips in the bumper since the black plastic would show through easier on light colors. i'd still like to see how this works though after the 2nd attempt!

For some reason my post never took, here is a post I did at a Porsche forum....

I was hesitant to say the least on trying this on a dark color car, but the outcome and experience was much different then with my silver Accord. First and foremost, here are the learns. On a darker color car, the smaller the original chip, it becomes for the most part impossible to find once applied correctly. The larger chips fill in nicely as well, but if you look for it, you can still find them. No where near as badly as the light color car. On my silver Honda Accord, the product did not live up to the hype, but on the midnight blue Porsche, came out much, much better. I took B&A pics of the silver car, but it did not work well, so never downloaded the pics. I did not do this with the Porsche.

The biggest learns of this product is as follows. The deeper the chip, the harder it will be to hide or fill. You can put as much paint in the chip as you want, but you would have to apply, re-apply, re-apply again, and again to fill in the chip completely. So if you goal is to fill in the chip all the way, be prepared to spend quite a bit of time on deep chips. For the more shallow chips, especially the one's on metal instead of plastic, normally two - three times filling in the paint is all you need to get it to be nice and smooth and fill in to the point of almost not being seen.

You can also opt for one other way to address your paint chip concerns. Just fill it in with the paint to make it less noticeable, but ultimately if you look for it, you will see them. I would say for $39, it is worth it to try as it is much cheaper then a complete repaint and not that much more expensive then buying some of the other paint chip kits, paint pens or other products on the market.

doesn't sound bad at all on a dark colored car. i think i may have to invest in this.