Well after lot of procrastinating, I finally got around to using this Cornell tool today on my black KIA forte 5. Lots of tiny stone chips on hood and bumper. I bought the car 2 years old. Suspect previous owner may have been on a lot of gravel roads. Either that or the front end was repainted and paint is really weak.
So I washed the car real well and brought it into the garage as I thought the florescent lighting would be great for me to see properly. Turns out it was not ideal and I had to move the car outside to see properly. I was really nervous not to screw it up. Did not take long to get the hang of it and things were going pretty good. I was filling in larger chips and even touching tiny tiny little marks. I was even able to do some chips on front of bumper but it is a little harder on vertical surfaces.
I am not skilled so if I can do this, most people can. You need a steady hand so do not do it after a night of Crown Royal.
I also found out I could use better reading glasses for work like this.
I had to pull the plug before I finished because just as I got rolling I realized there is a ton of pollen in the air today and it was literally raining down on the car. It was crazy. It was hard to tell chips from pollen. No doubt the pollen was going to get into any paint I was putting down.
Cleaning the tool is a bit of a pain. I only had paint thinner on hand. It did not work that well so I really had to make an effort to clean it properly. I will get a better product for cleaning next time.
Overall very happy and will continue another day when they is not a sh$tload of %&$#@* pollen in the air.
