Chipped paint and rust

[mrhirst]

Hi everyone

I was getting into my car this morning and spotted some rust! Looks like a stone chip just above the the rear right wheel arch, it seems to have gone down to the metal!!..

I am thinking I'll have to take it to a garage to get it fixed.

I think the car has some corrosion guarantee, do I need to go to an approved garage?
I bought the car from VW used sales and it mentions a 12 month guarantee, could they do something?
If not, any recommendations in the South east London area?

Cheers for any advice!!

[Rob]

Rust from stone chips arn't covered in the body work corrosion warranty

[xjay1337]

As above.
Use a touch up stick.

[Frostypaw]

Ditto. And get the proper one from VW, gotta match.

I had Chipsaway over today to see if they could do a bunch of such chips and a deeper one or two and it's simply too small for them and more easily done by you yourself as the end result will always be a little bit of a mark. The annoying bit is a couple of them where I thought it was the clearcoat flaked away are where a non-matching paint has been blobbed on making bringing it back to the correct shade harder - do properly, do it once etc

[xjay1337]

You're always going to get stone chips.
Best just touching up the ones which go back to bare metal to protect the paint from rust, that's the primary point in a touch up, to protect the substrate.
You can get them pretty good if you get a chance to fill them, leave them for a day or two to try and then sand/polish but people don't always have the time.

[mrhirst]

Thanks for all the responses

I called a VW dealer and they told me my car is listed as 2 different colours on some systems they have so they weren't sure.

Any ideas where I can find the colour code?

[Gaz r]

There's a build sticker in the boot with your paint code and there should be another copy of it in your service schedule. If you do a search on here there's a thread on decoding the build sticker.

[mrhirst]

Cheers!

[lloydie63]

I used this company for dealing with the chips on my car DIY (bought the master scratch kit). perfect match and easy to use following the instructions.

https://www.paints4u.com/AutoColours.as ... uctID=6912" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

https://www.paints4u.com/ProductDetails ... uctID=6912" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

https://www.paints4u.com/pdffiles/Scrat ... %20Kit.pdf" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Frostypaw]

That's very helpful cheers!