I asked a mate of mine who is a car finisher (prepares brand new cars for sale at the dealership).
The Chipex stick is only wax, so though very useful for covering up minor blemishes etc, if you powerwash the car it’ll come straight off.
I’d still use it as part of a general wash routine (especially as you’ve already bought it) - the stuff is colour matched so will hide any minor flaws, but if you’ve got a chip, paint / filler is the only real solution.
I can’t see how the blending fluid takes away excess paint and leaves the paint in the chip! Basically in my experience, it doesn’t. Maybe im rubbing too hard.
Are you following the photos on their website? The wiping off is done with the blue cloth wrapped round the scraper so it doesn’t ‘dip’ into the chip hole (eh). White cloth is for the polishing stage. Got the kit for a Winning Blue MK3 as it’s front is well and truly peppered and the genuine Mazda touch up kit leaves a lot to be disired!
No, I followed the instructions sent with the pack. They obviously need to update these! I used the microfibre cloth for polishing as it said to. I will check the website out for alternative instructions.
Calm down, calm down! No need to get bitter. I’ve just followed the wrong instructions that’s all. I will bring it on Sunday and you will be laughing on the other side of your stone chips It’s a red kit so I won’t be using it on my MK2 at yours, unless you know someone with a classic red we can test it on…
I have tried using the card with the cloth wrapped around. I am not impressed at all. The paint gets wiped out of the chip. In order to not let the paint get wiped out of the chip, you’d have to leave excess paint on and around the repair area, which obviously is not the point of the product.
Oh… i am really shocked Ben, money well spent then, i am sure some will join in and tell you that you are doing it wrong,if so drop it with me next time you bring your Mk 1 here and i’ll try this supper duper stuff follwing the instructions???and then i will use my stuff with the Mazda-mender instructionsand i’ll show you how to get scratches out also.
I recieved my kit a few weeks back - very prompt delivery I’ll add.
I set about cleaning the car one afternoon, and then decided to touch up a chip I’ve had on my wing for a couple of months (polished over to prevent rust, since my touch up paint seems to have disappeared in to thin air!).
I have to admit, the instructions were a little unclear but a bit of common sense was enough to work it out. Use the brushes provided (look under the inner cardboard for them) to apply paint, and then use the plastic thing to spread it over/around the chip. Let it dry for a little bit and then use the ‘blending solution’ and the strange cloth (you know the one I mean!) to gently to remove the excess paint. If the paint from the chip is coming off either the paint is not dry enough, or you’re rubbing too hard. Then use the polish & polishing cloth/microfibre as normal.
Deep chips may take a few attempts, but it did a damn good job on my wing (fairly deep chip) and mud guard (where a bit of paint had come away).
I could not fault the quality of the finish. If you’re not somebody in the habit of polishing/cleaning/touching up, etc. I’d say this is your best bet for good results. Everything you need is included. However, to be perfectly honest, I think I could achieve the same result for less money but I think I am pretty good at touching such things in. I’m absolutely hopeless with any sort of touch up brush (it goes from being a chip to a blob of paint!), so I’ve mastered my own techniques of blending it in, etc. over the last few years!
In summary, would I buy again, maybe. Would I recommend, certainly.
If you want to give it a try, but you’re wary of spending the money then club members can enter the competition here for their chance to win a kit.
As I say, give it another try - you will get a decent result.
I should also add that it was bitterly cold when I did it - around freezing point (based on the number of times I nearly found myself on the ground next to my recently washed car!)- so if I got a good result then, you’ll definetly get a good result in warmer temps.
Repeating the instructions to me and telling me to look under the cardboard for the brushes is rather patronising. I can read. I have also seen the video, which contradicts the written instructions. Your instructions contradict both!
You admit that the instructions are vague/unclear? Do you not think that a product that assumes high quality and a high price should have decent and detailed instructions at least?
The box is designed in a way that the brushes could quite easily have become hidden under the inside of the packaging - I mentioned it because I was trying to be helpful, not as an attempt to patronise you.
You said the instructions were unclear, so I tried to explain them in a different way, which I found to be succesful - again, I was simply trying to help.
Anyone with any sense would look under the cardboard. There were micro brushes in the box but no “the brush”, as the written instructions say you can use.
The instructions are not just unclear but they don’t even mention the use of the plastic card that is supplied. The video demo method differs from the written instructions.
I also gave the paint plenty of time to dry… I made a cup of tea and drank it before attempting the next stage. The written instructions say between 45 seconds and 5 mins to dry depending on the climate.
well worth the fiver.
No need to get bitter. I’ve just followed the wrong instructions that’s all. 
I will bring it on Sunday and you will be laughing on the other side of your stone chips
It’s a red kit so I won’t be using it on my MK2 at yours, unless you know someone with a classic red we can test it on…