I've wanted to get a post up about this for a while. This is a reasonable color match kit to improve the look of your car's paint finish. I won't claim showroom quality but I do get reasonably good results, especially when viewed from a usual viewing distance from a car (3-6 feet). In my case, this is a car with 140k+ miles that has seen 15 days on track over the season. Today, I am getting the hood ready for a BMW CCA car club show and I have paint chips aplenty to address.
From the website, I had purchased their basic kit and a matching paint sample for my Lemans Blue. https://touchuprx.com/ I have used this kit to repair defects on multiple BMWs and Mercedes with good result. A '99 Porsche in black did well but a 2003 silver Porsche I didn't have as much success with. So older, thinner paints may not take as well as some of these newer finishes.
Now let's get started. On a cleaned surface, I use this rubber squeegie and smear a drop of paint into each rock chip. As opposed to a touch up paint option with a brush, the idea here is to fill the hole with paint but eventually take away all the touch-up paint that is outside the defect and sitting on the clear coat. Now this all takes some courage, but shown below is my hood after about 2 dozen repairs.
Now we really get to work. With a pile of disposable microfiber towels at the ready, we saturate a towel with 'The pink stuff' and work it over each repair area. This softens the new touch-up paint sitting on the clear coat and hopefully leaves behind the touch-up paint in the defected area. My success rate here is around 90% - I do have to go back and repeat a spot occasionally. This step doesn't 100% remove the paint, and I am left with a haze of touch-up paint around each defect. Take a breath and summon more courage, it will be ok.
Yikes! With all that swirl, visions of $3000 body shop charges can dance in my head. Never fear. Next step is to treat the area with rubbing compound. A light to medium compound should do fine but I always have a heavy compound at the ready. I use turtle wax because it's inexpensive and available.
Buff that compound off with a soft microfiber towel and all of that smeared touch-up paint will come off fine. Now is your opportunity to inspect and repeat any areas that need a second go round. Here on this last repair, I found a spot I had missed treatment with 'the pink stuff' and the 1 hour+ dried / smeared touch-up paint came off the clear coat easily with heavy compound - so next time I might just try my repair using compound rather than the pink stuff to remove the smeared touch-up off the clear coat.
Voila! Ready for the club show.
From the website, I had purchased their basic kit and a matching paint sample for my Lemans Blue. https://touchuprx.com/ I have used this kit to repair defects on multiple BMWs and Mercedes with good result. A '99 Porsche in black did well but a 2003 silver Porsche I didn't have as much success with. So older, thinner paints may not take as well as some of these newer finishes.
Now let's get started. On a cleaned surface, I use this rubber squeegie and smear a drop of paint into each rock chip. As opposed to a touch up paint option with a brush, the idea here is to fill the hole with paint but eventually take away all the touch-up paint that is outside the defect and sitting on the clear coat. Now this all takes some courage, but shown below is my hood after about 2 dozen repairs.
Now we really get to work. With a pile of disposable microfiber towels at the ready, we saturate a towel with 'The pink stuff' and work it over each repair area. This softens the new touch-up paint sitting on the clear coat and hopefully leaves behind the touch-up paint in the defected area. My success rate here is around 90% - I do have to go back and repeat a spot occasionally. This step doesn't 100% remove the paint, and I am left with a haze of touch-up paint around each defect. Take a breath and summon more courage, it will be ok.
Yikes! With all that swirl, visions of $3000 body shop charges can dance in my head. Never fear. Next step is to treat the area with rubbing compound. A light to medium compound should do fine but I always have a heavy compound at the ready. I use turtle wax because it's inexpensive and available.
Buff that compound off with a soft microfiber towel and all of that smeared touch-up paint will come off fine. Now is your opportunity to inspect and repeat any areas that need a second go round. Here on this last repair, I found a spot I had missed treatment with 'the pink stuff' and the 1 hour+ dried / smeared touch-up paint came off the clear coat easily with heavy compound - so next time I might just try my repair using compound rather than the pink stuff to remove the smeared touch-up off the clear coat.
Voila! Ready for the club show.
