Chip in Cervelo Paint Job

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Somehow in Transition at recent 70.3 the paint on the R in Cervelo was chipped on my P2 top tube. It is completely superficial, and there is no damage to the frame or integrity of the carbon, but I don’t know how to fix it. Any ideas? It looks like something red scratched it as there is a TINY red dot on the paint and then the chip exposed a white undersurface. I am confused how that spot could have been chipped as it was under the bib# sticker. I don’t know if a clear-coat is best, or white auto paint or what. Any ideas?

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Somehow in Transition at recent 70.3 the paint on the R in Cervelo was chipped on my P2 top tube. It is completely superficial, and there is no damage to the frame or integrity of the carbon, but I don’t know how to fix it. Any ideas? It looks like something red scratched it as there is a TINY red dot on the paint and then the chip exposed a white undersurface. I am confused how that spot could have been chipped as it was under the bib# sticker. I don’t know if a clear-coat is best, or white auto paint or what. Any ideas?

Any chance it was pulled off by the race sticker?

John

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That is possible, but I would hope the paint was stronger than that. Has that happened to others?

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Do you need to fix up the colour or just the clear coat? If it’s just clear coat, clear nail polish will probably do. If you need to repair the colour, then see if a panel beater (or car dealer) has small bottles of pre-mixed touch up paint. It’s unlikely to be an exact match, but if the colour on the frame has been affected then it’s better than nothing.

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It could just be the clearcoat as I would expect the frame to be a darker color than white. Thanks.

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I got a substantial chip/scrape, like 1cm x 1cm on my p2’s down tube, think it happened when it was on a back of car rack with other bikes. It was over the ‘C’ in Cervelo. I was able to fix it myself like this:

  1. 000 sand paper to flatten it down, be careful with this, don’t get the carbon.
  2. black and white touch up paint to repaint the area of the ‘C’
  3. let dry
  4. repeat 1-3 until it looks really good
  5. nail polish for clear coat

It looks really good, you can only tell up close. I considered using some masking tape to make the C look good, but I was able to do it freehand. Black and white were easy to match if you need a different color bring a sample to a paint store and they can probably match it.

Hope this helps