Advice on using touch-up paint to fix these chips?
 

I have a couple paint chips I want to touch-up, but would like to hear how the pro's here would tackle it first. The car is diamond blue metallic, which requires a base coat and clear coat. Paintscratch.com is where I am getting the paint from, but want to know--seeing the chips I've posted here--should I go with a paint pen, or 1oz bottle, or even something else? As far as the process itself, can anyone give me a brief walkthrough of touching-up chips like this? Thanks!http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1252426225.jpg
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Ok, can someone tell me at least what NOT to do?

hit any more rocks...http://forums.pelicanparts.com/support/smileys/wat5.gif:D:D

Sorry man, long day and I needed some comic relief.

I have tried the Paintscratch... the first batch was not close on color, the second seemed to be very close if not dead on. Not happy with how my chips turned out though. I think it is a matter of extreme patience in the process, or higher a pro. Good luckSmileWavy

There is a product called Dr. Colorchip which is advertised in Excellence and other auto magazines. Costs $39-59 depending on size and you have to give them the paint code. You supposedly smear the colored goop on then rub it off with a pad and it leaves a blended in patch. I am thinking of trying this product on some OEM wheels painted gray.

I would talk to either your local high end dealer or detail shop and find the best airbrush touch guy you could find and have him touch them up for you.If they are good they can "tint" the color on the fly to get a really close match and fill the chips.Metallics are very hard to match through a body shop and they would want to paint the entire panel,But it would be my last resort.And it would be very hard to match the adjacent panels to the newly painted ones.If you wanted to do it yourself I would take the car to a high-end body shop and have them custom mix some paint for you.But to get the best match ask them to use a "sun gun" so the metallic tint will match best outside.

Mine is not metallic but I've used a tooth pick to drip in layer upon layer letting it dry between...then carefully rub it out. Might work for you...

+1 I use it it's great.

there is a guy here in so cal who does that colorchip system. It is really impresive.

Well, my experience from paintscratch.com:

I tried to use their website to order paint both for my wife's Camry and my Honda ST1300 motorcycle. Her Camry is a shade of brown and my bike blue.

Their website is so fuched up that is shows neither a brown nor a blue when I enter the year and make. Was a deal breaker for me. I'm now looking at another source.....

I was going to go with the Dr. Colorchip process, but over on the BMW boards it has received less than rave reviews. While the color does match, and it is very easy to apply, the layer is so thin that when you get close to the car you can still see all the chips.

If using the Dr. Colorchip method, you still need to add the paint in layers, otherwise you have paint colored craters. I worked on a friend's black car and did some chips with the colorchip process and others the "old fashioned" way; still ended up wet sanding and polishing both to achieve the best finish.

Let the paint dry a bit and keep layering before you rub with the magic blend solution (half hour or more). It may take longer and be more work, but the results will be better.