Hi guys I am about to sell my Octavia 07 1.9 TDI, There are a few stonechips on bonet without expensive repair how do I remedy them. Also will T CUT do the job?

A lot depends on the colour , if it's a lint metallic forget trying to touch up the metallic particles when not sprayed show up much darker than the surrounding paint a dark base colour is easier and can touch up well with a cocktail stick to apply small amounts into the chip, but degrease with meths first to remove polish in the chip if you have waxed since the chips occurred if you are selling it or trading in I would polish the car well and chances are they won't be so noticeable anyway ! Most of the time a flashover is only way to get rid of chips as touching in can make it more noticeable , you could gets company like chips away to qoute you but my guess is at least a ton to do the bonnet.

Well someone like chipsaway will charge £100 minimum - but for that they will also normally do any other scratches and scuffs around the car (make sure it's clean when they come!) so depending on the value of the car it can be well worth it in terms of getting it prepared for selling at a good price...

If it's black get some black polish and that fills in stone chips for a number of washes, enough to sell it

The best way to deal with stone chips would to first clean out the chip with meths, then add some rust protection (if you're through to metal) then apply paint using a touch up, leave it slightly proud of the surrounding paint. Once this has throughly dried say 24 hours knock back the touched up part to the level of the existing paint using 2000-3000 grit wet and dry, to isolate the area use a small piece of sand paper on the end of a pencil. Once the area is level, hit it with either AG super resin polish by hand or ideally if you have access to one a machine polisher.

There is a detailed write up on this over on the Detailing World forum by a member who did the bonnet of his metallic purple BMW M3.

It's a four year old skoda, so I wouldn't be too concerned. So long as there's no rust, I can't see any genuine buyer being too minded. Just clean the car well and polish it and you will be more than on your way. Good luck.

Edited 24 April, 201115 yr by nick1975