Respect the Cock

Ok, Im trying to cover up some chips.
I bought the touch-up paint from my dealer it comes in two bottles, 1-touch up paint, 2-clear coat.

So after cleaning the area.
Do I,

1. apply Touch-Up paint, let dry
2. apply the clear coat, let dry
3. apply the Lanka, rub

or do I

1. apply touch-up paint, let dry
2. apply the lanka, rub
3. apply the clear coat, let dry
4. repeat if necessary

or do I

1. mix the touch-up paint and the clear coat together,
2. apply the mixture to the chipped area, let dry
3. apply the lanka, rub

or is there a way to do this???

undrway

that is a decision you need to make. I, myself, did not use the clearcoat at all. I simply cleaned the chip, applied a glob of paint, allowed to dry, then Lanka-ed, and repeated as necessary. Looks great!

Ego

Langka recommends the 3rd one, that is, mixing the clear-coat and paint. This is the only thing I don't like about that company. To me, this is a really stupid thing to do. So, what I did was the following:

Apply touch-up paint, and let sit for 1 day (YES, 1 day, Langka will work on paint that is several days old, and tends to work TOO good on paint that is only a few hours old).

apply langka, get it smoothed. Let sit for another day.

Apply clear-coat, let sit for another day.

Apply SMALL amount of langka again to smooth it out, and voila, all done. Works like a charm, although it takes a lot of wait-time. It is certainly worth it though.

chillzatl

for me anyway, and i'm not claiming to be a langka/touchup paint master by any means. I just had little luck, after several tries and many hours drying time, in getting it to work well on some chips, due to location on the car and such. On some it worked great, can't even tell there was a chip there.

Pancho225

How much did your dealer charge you for the paint? and where did you buy the Lanka?

Respect the Cock

Under $20 for the paint, for the Langka you need to go to their website. I forget the address.

TTom TTR

www.langka.com

rollerskate

as I understand it, the idea of Langka is to smooth out any part of the "blob" of touch-up paint that is raised above the surface of the surrounding paint. after smoothing it out with the cloth-covered squeegee, it seems that everything should be level.

but, it doesn't seem to make any sense to add clear coat _on top_ of this, since when you apply the Langka and re-squeegee it, it seems like you should end up removing all of the clearcoat to get things back to level again. if so, then what is the point of this whole step?

what you *really* want to do is add enough paint to only fill slightly below the surrounding surface, then fill the rest with clear coat, and then smooth off the top (once), but that's a lot easier said than done...

my best alternative to the unachievable ideal is to skip the clearcoat step and just use the standard Langka technique once, using the touch-up paint color only (after all, we're just fixing chipped paint, it's not gonna be perfect anyway).
unless anyone has any better ideas that actually make sense... (?)