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Thread Author: legacylad Replies: 12
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 Tue 14 May 13 11:10 
 Touch up paints - legacylad
Whilst pressure washing the car recently ( then using a clean bucket & sponge!) I noticed some stone chips on my A pillar. Plus the normal bonnet chips.
Any recommendations please for touch up paint? Presumably applied with a fine artists brush, then rubbed down with some compound to blend in.
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 Tue 14 May 13 11:15 
 Touch up paints - Runfer D'Hills
What colour is your car LL? One of the few advantages of black cars is that stone chips can be very easily, quickly and cheaply disguised with a black indelible felt pen.
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 Tue 14 May 13 11:27 
 Touch up paints - bathtub tom
I was told a toothpick was the best applicator for stone chips.

Where do you find those little touch-up containers of paint nowadays?
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 Tue 14 May 13 11:41 
 Touch up paints - AnotherJohnH
>> Where do you find those little touch-up containers of paint nowadays?

A big Halfords can mix most colours and provide either an aerosol or can with a brush in the lid.

Also consider a car dealer, if it's a mass market car: maybe cheaper than option 1.
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 Tue 14 May 13 11:44 
 Touch up paints - Crankcase
Mr Toyota has started to move away from touch up paints and towards those sheets of stickers you just pop on.

There's a Youtube video from Toyota themselves showing the process, but even in that the end result doesn't look much cop to my eye, but there we are.

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 Tue 14 May 13 11:54 
 Touch up paints - Zero
Someone I know used this mob.

www.carpaintrepair.co.uk/acatalog/Car-Touch-Up-Paint.html
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 Tue 14 May 13 12:32 
 Touch up paints - bathtub tom
>>A big Halfords can mix most colours

That'll be why I haven't seen any. I think I've been inside a church more recently than a Halfords.

Useful link, thanks Zeddo.
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 Tue 14 May 13 12:55 
 Touch up paints - Cliff Pope

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>> That'll be why I haven't seen any. I think I've been inside a church more
>> recently than a Halfords.
>>

Churches have pews, not queues.
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 Wed 12 Jun 13 15:38 
 Touch up paints - legacylad
Thanks Zeddo.
Finally got around to ordering the touch up paint. Will post the results later.
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 Wed 12 Jun 13 17:29 
 Touch up paints - Manatee
Halfords mix up 300ml and use a Heath Robinson looking device to force it into an aerosol (not the kind in the Swedish chemist joke). They charge about £12-£13 I think.

I spray it into the lid and put the tiniest dot into little chips with a very small brush. The brushes with the kits I have had have usually been too big to be useful.

I have to remember to turn it upside down and clear the nozzle so I can use it again.
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 Wed 12 Jun 13 19:00 
 Touch up paints - mikeyb
Bought the kit from the dealer for mine. Quite impressed, use the touch up paint, wait for 10 mins then wet the lid (its a kind of mesh / sponge) and rub it over the area. It take all the excess paint off just leaving it in the stone chip.

Second bottle is a lacquer to seal it. Made such a good job that I couldn't find one of the chips I touched in.

Think it was about six quid plus vat
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 Thu 13 Jun 13 07:14 
 Touch up paints - L'escargot
>> Where do you find those little touch-up containers of paint nowadays?
>>

I recently got a pack from my Ford dealer. It contained a bottle of the coloured paint, and a bottle of clear lacquer.
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 Fri 23 Aug 13 14:49 
 Touch up paints - retgwte
Small chips I normally just cover with a tiny bit of clear paint from halfords. Its enough to prevent it getting any worse and keep the elements out. Its not cosmetically perfect, but easy to do and no bother about matching colours. but then I expect to part ex cars every 3 years on average so not that bothered as it becomes the dealers problem to sort out then, and they have never even spotted that ive done this when looking over my car for valuation. And a lot less risky than doing it with coloured paint and making a mistake.

I've used the Toyota patches on one car, and I was happy enough but the dealer I part ex'd it to was not too happy so I wont be doing that again.
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