Anybody tried Langka Paint Chip Repair, does it work?
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my experience was not so great
It is not a miracle, unfortunately. The process for using Langka is roughly like this:
1. Paint the chip with your touch-up paint.
2. Allow to dry for a period - hard but not fully cured.
3. Apply Langka to a smooth white cotton sheet that is wrapped around something like a credit card.
4. Buff the paint for a while to bring it down to the original car line - no large splats above the surface like normal touch-up.
The big problem seems to be timing for step 2. My experience was that either the cloth buffing step would strip out all the touchup (too little cure time) or the smoothed out area would aquire a matte finish rather than the gloss of the clearcoat. Timed perfectly on a small chip you may see reasonable results. There is a much for tedious touch-up process described on some web sites - apply miniscule amounts of paint and sanding with tiny pads glued to the ends of pencil erasers - that works if you follow it. Or save them up and go to a body shop.
Paintless dent repair - like "Dent Wizard" - really does seem miraculous. I was astounded the first time I had this done - costs roughly $100 / door. But it doesn't fix paint chips.
Peter
1. Paint the chip with your touch-up paint.
2. Allow to dry for a period - hard but not fully cured.
3. Apply Langka to a smooth white cotton sheet that is wrapped around something like a credit card.
4. Buff the paint for a while to bring it down to the original car line - no large splats above the surface like normal touch-up.
The big problem seems to be timing for step 2. My experience was that either the cloth buffing step would strip out all the touchup (too little cure time) or the smoothed out area would aquire a matte finish rather than the gloss of the clearcoat. Timed perfectly on a small chip you may see reasonable results. There is a much for tedious touch-up process described on some web sites - apply miniscule amounts of paint and sanding with tiny pads glued to the ends of pencil erasers - that works if you follow it. Or save them up and go to a body shop.
Paintless dent repair - like "Dent Wizard" - really does seem miraculous. I was astounded the first time I had this done - costs roughly $100 / door. But it doesn't fix paint chips.
Peter
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