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Mar 21 2019

Cómo conducir con cuidado sobre una carretera enarenada o con sal

Conducir por una carretera sobre la que se ha echado sal o arena puede ser una pesadilla. No solo puede ser que acabemos atascados detrás de un camión que está echando sal, sino que al estar cerca de uno nos encontramos bajo riesgo de recibir impactos de arena, sal y piedras. Con este clima helado […]

Mar 21 2019

Cómo controlar la presión de los neumáticos antes de un viaje

Controlar la presión de los neumáticos de vez en cuando es muy importante, pero lo es más aún en climas fríos. En condiciones de hielo o nieve como las que hemos visto últimamente, es mejor verificar la presión de los neumáticos por lo menos una vez al mes, y sobre todo si está por salir […]

Mar 21 2019

Cómo reparar daños por golpes en la pintura

No hay nada peor que estacionar su coche en la entrada o en la calle, observarlo y darse cuenta de que la pintura está dañada. Para empeorar la situación aún más, se le vienen a la mente recuerdos de su último viaje, y acaba llegando a la conclusión de que el daño fue causado por […]

Mar 21 2019

¿Cuál es el color de coche más popular del Reino Unido?

¿Cuál es el color de coche más popular del Reino Unido? ¿Cómo escoger el color de su coche nuevo? Negro y blanco son generalmente los dos contendientes principales por el primer lugar. Sin embargo, de acuerdo a reportes de la Sociedad de Fabricantes y Comerciantes de Automotores (SMMT) el color gris es el color preferido […]

Mar 21 2019

Cómo encerar y pulir su coche después de aplicar la pintura para retoques

Todos hemos pasado por la desagradable experiencia de ver un gran arañazo que arruina la carrocería de nuestro coche. Si ya se ha encontrado con las manos en la cintura mirando su coche y pensando si es posible aplicar una pintura para retoques que dé grandes resultados, nosotros tenemos la solución. Con la Pintura para […]

Aug 17 2017

Protecting Your Car Paint From Winter Damage

Winter is just around the corner, and protecting your car against corrosion and rust through these months is essential if you want to keep it in good condition. After buying or renting a property, a car is usually the second-most expensive purchase you’ll make. We spend thousands buying them, and hundreds per year maintaining them. […]

Aug 17 2017

Chipex racing 2014

Find out about all of the races, triathlons and sporting events our CEO took on during 2014…. Manchester Marathon – April 2014 26 miles through the streets of Manchester The Manchester marathon has to be one of the best in the UK for those wanting a quick time and going for a personal best (PB) […]

Aug 17 2017

How to Drive Safely during the Winter

Opening your house door one morning in winter, you step out into an unexpected blizzard. The temperature has dropped rapidly through the night and it’s snow snowing heavily, and underneath it ice has taken grip too. Struggling to your car, you realise that you’ve left your one and only ice scraper somewhere in the house. […]

Aug 17 2017

Find out How to Clean your Car Properly | Chipex Blog

A car is usually the second-most expensive thing you’ll buy after a house. You’re proud of it and so naturally you like to keep it looking clean and shiny, but actually some wash methods and products can be detrimental to your car’s exterior surfaces if used regularly. In this post, we’ll guide you through some […]

Aug 17 2017

How to Use a Chipex Kit for Bumper Damage

Ferrari 328 bumper before using Chipex Ferrari 328 bumper after using Chipex Like many, you take pride in your car’s appearance. When it gets dirty you wash it or have it washed, then it has a coat of wax lovingly applied and it’s looking great once more… that is until you get to a section […]

Aug 17 2017

How To Clean Your Car’s Interior

Often, car owners take much care and pride in the exterior of their vehicle using a good shampoo, polish and wax to keep it pristine, while paint chips or scratches can be taken care of using the excellent Chipex paint touchup system. However, many either neglect the interior completely or only give the dash and […]

Aug 17 2017

How To Repair Car Paint Scratches

Walking out to my newly-purchased Lexus LS 400 one morning, it wasn’t until I was a feet away that I realised someone had run a knife edge across two of the door, one of them deeply. It’s wasn’t a new car, or expensive at all – merely a 1998 model costing less then £2,000. However, […]

Aug 17 2017

How to Find and Use Car Paint Codes

Car paint codes – not the most exciting topic, I’ll grant you, but an important necessity when you’re in need of painting an area of your vehicle, or getting the right match for a Chipex paint chip repair system. When it comes to paint shades, Chipex and professional sprayers will require the vehicle paint code […]

Aug 17 2017

The Many Types of Car Paint Finishes

Henry Ford once wrote in his autobiography of the Ford Model T: “Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black”. It’s a common misconception that the Model T was only available in black, when in actual fact in the first years of its production (1908 […]

Aug 17 2017

Car Respray Cost v Chipex Paint Repair System

If you’re proud of your car, and those ugly paint chips up front are really starting to bug you, you’ll perhaps be thinking of having the bumper or bonnet resprayed. Having your car resprayed though, no matter the section or part, is a pain for more reasons than one. First up, you have to take […]

Aug 17 2017

How to Repair Car Paint Stone Chips

Stone chips are the blight of any car owner who regularly uses the motorway. Flung at already-high speeds, your car then hurtles towards these miniature rocks with impending doom. The loud ‘whack!’ as the stonehits the bodywork makes you cringe, and it’s guaranteed there’s now a tiny crater where it mashed itself into your car’s […]

Aug 17 2017

How to Spray Paint Your Car on a Budget

Sometimes, a scratch or scuff on your car’s bodywork is just too deep and wide to be able to use a paint repair kit, and the panel may need respraying instead. However, if money is tight and you simply can’t afford to have it done professionally, or your car isn’t worth spending that kind of […]

Aug 17 2017

Chipex Touch Up Paint versus Car Paint Pen | Chipex Blog

The car touch-up paint pen has its uses, certainly, but at the same time it’s always better to go with a more permanent and better fix for car paint chips and light scratches – the Chipex seamless car touch-up system. However, just because I’m writing this Chipex blog doesn’t mean I’m going to be entirely negative about the touch-up pen. Indeed, I’ve used […]

Aug 17 2017

Car paint suppliers

Spray painting stuff is fun – fact. It doesn’t matter what level you’re painting at, or what you’re actually spraying, it’s all good. If you’re a professional spray painter, and you’ve helped take a rusted-out classic back to looking like it just rolled out the factory doors for the first time 40 years ago, there […]

Aug 17 2017

Rust treatment for cars

Rust is the blight which effects cars around the world. If you’re fortunate enough to live in a warm, dry climate like California, it’s a much easier battle keeping it at bay. However, for those of us in the U.K. where the climate is perfect for honing those dark brown patches on your vehicle’s bodywork, […]

Aug 17 2017

What is road rash and why is fixing it so important?

Here on the Chipex blog, we often refer to ‘road rash’ when we’re talking about car paint chips and what causes them. If you haven’t been afflicted by car paint chips very much (lucky you!) maybe you’re not totally sure what we mean by the term road rash. We thought it would be a good […]

Aug 17 2017

Which Car Shampoos are Best for Car Paintwork?

On more than a few occasions, I’ve winced as I see people squirt a load of washing up liquid into a bucket, fill it with warm water, watch as suds galore overflow, soak a sponge and begin to scrub away gleeful as their car goes from dirty to clean. Why wince though, you say! After […]

Aug 17 2017

The Best Products for Cleaning Car Wheels | Chipex Blog

Keeping your paintwork looking fresh, clean and with a super depth of shine is great, but I’ve often come across cars at meets and shows where the paint looks amazing, but the wheels simply haven’t been looked after. People tend to forget that wheels often get way dirtier than paintwork, and they’re often not cleaned […]

Aug 17 2017

How and Why to Keep Your Car Windscreen Clean

With Autumn here, and Winter to follow, the sun starts to sink lower in the sky, and as that happens, driving in heavy traffic becomes difficult and dangerous. A good pair of sunglasses help hugely, but something that’ll aid your visibility further is have a clean windscreen. Trying to see ahead is ridiculously hard when […]