ildd

Hi, I searched and didn't see a specific thread for the paint not looking right... so here is this.

I got a touch up pen(brillant Silver Metallic) from Paintscratch today. I washed my car, dried the certain areas up really good and applied the paint(yes, i did put it on the card 1st). This is the results.


As you can see, the paint is darker than the original and is very rough and bumpy. What should I do? Add more coats? get FINE sand paper...? Need advice here. I need the bumps gone because I applied it to 2 door handles and edges, along with other places.

Thanks in advance.

02C240

never had good experience with "touch up" paint. Also what you have looks more like gouges rather than scratches, which makes it more difficult. You may want to use filler material first, sand and re-touch.

phister

You're gonna have to wet sand it down and paint it. Touch up isn't gonna help. You can order aerosol paint to match. Just wet sand the area with 1500 paper then paint it. Usually you want to paint a little larger area to blend it. Then clear it then buff and polish it.

ildd

Alright. Thank your again for the help. Sound like a next weekend project, since I'm going to the houston auto show in an hour.

Glyn M Ruck

Even spray cans are hard to control. You have to get the flake to lay down properly. Fill deep scratches with a spot filler, wet sand flat in a small controlled area. Touch up & blend with an air brush, re clear coat & buff. The Glasurit waterbased base coat & nano clear system works really well for this. You can patch repair & see absolutely no sign of it. No need to spray the whole panel.

eg. this bumper on my old C240. Hit on the corner to the right of the joint.

N_Jay

Very lightly (VERY LIGHTLY) sand off the touchup paint outside the scratch.
Use a toothpick to put a little more touchup paint into the scatch.
Let it dry a few days.
If the scratch is below the surface repeat.
When the touchup paint is even with or just slightly above the surrounding paint, let dry a few days and VERY VERY lightly sand it to even then polish.

TheOnlyBaleki

I got a touch up set from the dealer. It was only $20 or so. It's color matched and comes with a tube of clear coat. I haven't used it yet since it's been in the negatives recently and my garage isn't insulated but we'll see when the weather warms up.

VVF

Glyn, how large an area did you re-clear after applying base coat there?

Glyn M Ruck

I suppose about 4 square inches. I was distracted & reversed into my builder's truck.

I had another spot repair done on that car's RHS front fender by the pros. Another vehicle threw up a stone & put a neat dent in the fender right through the paint down to metal. That was popped, light filled & spot painted. You could see no sign it was ever there. Job done in one hour.