brzman

Has anyone used this ? picked up a nasty rock chip and trying to repair, just curious if this stuff does what it says ?

thanks

hotwheels57

Some time ago, LANGKA licensed it's product to MOTHER'S to sell. I've used the MOTHER'S version several times. It worked as advertised on repairing small chips in the front bumper and hood of my (then) '96 Impala SS which was Dark Cherry Metallic.
The problem that most users seem to complain about is not in the product, but in the matching of the paint...especially true in metallic paints/clear coat. While the chips were filled and smoothed, the darker metallic was hard to match.
You could probably duplicate basically the same results with an application of 3M "Finesse", a clean cotton t-shirt, a smooth plastic "credit card" and hand rubbing.
On my Z16, I chose to use a SPEED LINGERIE bra/mirror covers to avoid the inevitable rock chips.

brzman

I seemed to have a rock bounce up on the bottom half of the passenger door the other nite. Went right through the paint leaving 3 white scatches. And of course it is Metallic ?

stormrider

I have had good luck with Langka including the touch up paint blending with my pewter. I do have one very deep chip about the size of a lemon seed on my hood that I can't seem to get the touch up paint to adhere too.

brzman

My first attempt I rubbed the paint right outta the scratch ?
guess I was alittle to rough......

hotwheels57

I did the same thing...gotta let the paint really cure and use the plastic card perfectly flat to the surface with the cloth stretched tight...
Base coat/clear coat paint is very thin.

brzman

I'll remember that on the second go around

dobewillie

good info thanks

robert123

You can get the same or better results than Langa if you are not afraid to touch up, sand, and buff. I will not be perfect but acceptable.

coxjajb

I purchased touch-up paint from paintscratch.com. The color was matalic and a perfect match. I let the paint cure a couple of days then smoothed the area with a cotton T-shirt, with a couple of drops of alcohol, wraped tightly around a plastic card.

Jistari

Ive been looking for this type of stuff, problem is I only think of it when Im in the autoparts store.

Anyone know of a national chain that carries either the mothers or another "blob reducer" type touch up kit?

TomZ

I used it and wasn't impressed. Maybe it's the color (mag red?), but the repaired area was not shiny but turned out to be an opaque blob.
I would recommend Touchup 1-2-3 instead; it's much easier to work with and better results in the end IMHO.
Just my .02.

vizette

Same here, but a couple passes with some 3M polish and a re-wax of the area fixed that.

Easy fix, worked great, still looks good a couple years later.

-Rich

Mr. Lucky

and you also do not want cloth with a "nap" to it (like typical microfibers). The best thing I've found is an old worn cotton tee shirt.

BTW, the Langka Blob Eliminator works great on my Millenium Yellow.

Janster

Yeah...I've used it and I really like it. It's not a professional's friend - but for a back-yard mechanic who wants to 'neatly' cover up chips, it's great.

You can't screw it up... and the more you use it, the better you get at doing it. It can be a finicky process to make it look 'invisible' and/or hardly noticable. Deeper stuff is harder to do and never 'un-noticable' - but are hidden well.

I've done tons of spots on our vette already. The dark blue corvette color is easier to match and disquise. I've done spots you can't even tell where they were. However - my Toyota Tacoma speedway blue (metallic) is harder and the chip repairs look darker.