Repairing Paint Chips and Scratches with Langka
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Before: Touch Up Paint blobs on Emmy's nose Langka is only for use on 1990-2005 year model cars. Cars before 1989 or on repainted panels, test first. Cars before 1965 DO NOT USE. How to Use Langka: Rach's Short Version: Best to work in the shade. Langka Prepaint cleans and prepares the area for bonding with the touch up paint.
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Before: (Close Up) Touch Up Paint blobs on Emmy's nose Apply touch up paint either as little as possible because you will be rubbing off the excess with the flat side of the card (with cloth) or put a whole lot of touch up paint on and use the edge of the card (still with cloth) to squeegee all the excess.
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Langka applied with a 100% cotton sheet wrapped around the plastic Langka card You are always working with your finger or the card wrapped in "smooth tightly woven cloth". Back and forth, not circular. Once you see paint coming off on the cloth, lighten up on rubbing. Finger may take off too much touch-up paint but you can feel your progress.
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Drying time for touch up paint before using Langka is 2-24 hours. The variation in drying time is due to varied climates. Hot and dry will dry faster than cold and wet. For non-metallic paints some people let it dry for days (so apparently you are OK if you don't do it tonight). Langka may even work on very old touch up paint. Just takes more rubbing. Paint may "shrink" in the touch up area, if it does, apply more coats. Keep applying paint until you get a blob to eliminate. Only use the touch up "clear coat" if you think the touch up paint looks dull compared to the car paint. Same process. Some people mix their touch up paint and their clear coat in 1:1 ratio instead of using the touch up paint alone. Sealant: Same process. You can wax the car (Zaino) 24 hours after completing the paint repair.
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Before Langka
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After Langka: Blobs gone, chips substantially reduced. (The white residue you see is because I was in a rush to take the picture and get back to cleaning.)
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The green paint you see on the rag is the touch up paint only. Langka does not remove the original paint or clear coat.
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Cousin Lisa paints LiZZZ. LiZZ is a fairly extreme example, as not only is she a daily driver 60 mile a day commuter but also you see my cousin has all these bits of jewelry and dangly key chains and necklaces. If this works on LiZZZ's damage, it will surely work on yours.
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Before: (Pennsylvania, 5/26/06) It's hard to take good pictures because of the reflections. See the deep gouges, much more than mere scratches or stone chips.
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After: (New Jersey, 5/28/06) I think I may have done more than one coat. That is, clean the car, paint the touch up, you let it dry for at least a day, clean it again, use Langka blob remover, then do all that again some days later.
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Before: (PA, 5/26/06) It is hard to repeat the same exact angle for the shot, (and it's hard to get my hands on Lisa's car because she's always driving somewhere) but here's another view of the original gouges.
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After: (NJ, 5/28/06) And here is similar view of afters. You can see the beach chairs from the Jersey Shore reflected in the door here, and you can see the green grass and trees of Pennsylvania suburbs in the Before shots.
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Lisa touching up LiZZ's paint, (PA, 5/26/06)
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Before: (PA, 5/26/06) Here is an interesting paint problem. looks like acid dripped on the car. Could be some really bad bird poop that sat for too long.
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After: (NJ, 5/28/06) This flash shot on a Jet Black car inside garage is extreme, it looks much better in real life. Note that even the edge of the door looks bright white, as does the dust on the car and Langka residue. It actually looks a LOT better than this, but even so you can see how the SIZE of the problem is greatly reduced. A couple more treatments should fix it well.
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Before: (NJ, 5/28/06 10am) Again this is an over-lit shot and its hard to see what is a paint chip and what is Langka residue
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After: (NJ, 5/28/06 11am) Same garage with day light instead of flash. Really quite stunning results.
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