Literally 1.5 mm but need to cover it up, is there a good home repair kit out there for my fabia monte in candy white? 

Heard chipex is really good.

Not too cheap though

http://www.chipex.co.uk/

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Until you decide how you are going to fix it - apply a smear of petroleum jelly to seal it from the elements

Go get yourself the Skoda touch up paint kit and you are done - it's two bottles, one contains the paint and the other the lacquer.

The color code for your car is on a sticker at the boot below the carpet floor.

Go get yourself the Skoda touch up paint kit and you are done - it's two bottles, one contains the paint and the other the lacquer.

The color code for your car is on a sticker at the boot below the carpet floor.

Many thanks for this, and thanks to everyone who responded, I will get on to this straight away!

I can highly recommend not using the tool that comes with the Skoda touch up kit.  Fill the chip very very gradually using the tip of a toothpick as an applicator allowing each coat to dry.

 

Have seen this done to great effect where you actually fill to leave the repair slightly proud of the paintwork, leave to cure, then wet sand back down to flat.  Done well it can be pretty much invisible.

 

If taking sandpaper to your car sounds a bit scary I would certainly suggest not doing this DIY and taking it to a specialist chip repair company.

 

Just watched the Chipex video, which seems a bit too good to be true, which bothers my inner sceptic.

Many thanks for this, and thanks to everyone who responded, I will get on to this straight away!

 

You can use 5-600 wet or dry emery paper. Use it with some washing up liquid in the water, just a drop or two. Rub all the same way over the touched up and slightly proud area, NOT in circular motion. It works a treat and if you do it right won't be able to be detected once it's polished. 

^^ +1 to this.

 

Going off the Orange peel finish to my paint you could end up with it looking better than it did coming out of the factory.

 

It will be a bit scary looking prior to the polish as it takes on a really hazy milky look, like you got it badly wrong.

Washing up liquid is the Devil,  Sodium Chloride.  Salt.

 

First thing is always to drop a bit of 'rust inhibitor liquid or gel' onto a chip with a needle, pin or toothpick type thing.

If the chip is not through to the metal, no harm done, you just wipe away before doing your repair.

 

If you ever have a chip and really no time to get paint etc and its important to protect, 

stop and buy some nail varnish in the colour or Clear Nail Varnish Lacquer, £1/£1.99 shop, supermarket etc,

until you can deal with the chip or damage.

 

george

Tried some Chipex on my Octy before, I couldn't get it to work as advertised and I don't think that it ever will. 

 

+1 for the touch up kit from Skoda. Works well if you build it up slowly then sand back flat. I use a straightened paper clip to fill in the chip. 

The other thing, if using a Skoda touch up is make sure the touch up stick is nice and warm before using it. I put mine in my trouser pocket for 20 mins prior to using. It is so easy to use after warming it up I can use the edge of the standard brush in the cap, as the paint is nice and thin and goes where you want it too. If you use washing up liquid when rubbing down, you only need the tiniest amount of one to two drops in a quarter bucket of clean warm water to enable easy flow of the emery, not enough to add any significant salt, which in any case won't do any damage as the paint will be dry and the repair sealed. But certainly, washing up liquid is not something you normally want on your car on a regular basis.