Old owner wrong touch-up paint

sshann

U can use rubbing alcohol to remove the previous patched paint, use cotton ball with it, just go over the paint more times to remove it completely. I bought the original paint touch up pen from Nissan, but the colour looks diff, I used a tooth pick to apply it

Junkman2008

You CANNOT remove dried up touch up paint with rubbing alcohol. Where in the world did you hear that nonsense???

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Junkman2008

The stuff you see online never ceases to amaze me!

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redondoaveb

What would you do about a deep scratch that's through the clear and base coats? Is there any way to fill it in without using a filler and doing a re-paint?

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Junkman2008

Yes, and it will look like total crap. If you are through the clear and into the paint, you have 3 choices.

1. Live with it.

2. Fix it as I did in the above post, keeping in mind that the repair will NOT be perfect by any stretch of the imagination but it will be a little less noticeable. I would only do this if I was planning on fixing it later but I didn't have time to do it immediately. A scratch like that would irritate the hell out of me because every time I drive the car, I could hear it screaming at me over my music. Only a real car guy would understand that.

I am going to do a video on that exact repair in the near future.

3. Have it fixed CORRECTLY, which consist of a respray. That is the ONLY way to fix that kind of damage and not have it looking like your 5-year old child did it, as is show in the pictures above. I don't know what they were thinking at the rental car place when they picked up that touch-up paint.

Here's one I caught just before the owners almost made the same mistake at another car show. They had a beautiful Shelby Cobra that someone had leaned across and scratched with their belt buckle. They should have beat him with the car but I digress. They asked me if I had some touch-up paint and I was like, "HOLD UP! What's the issue?" They showed me the car and the scratch and I told them not to touch that car with any paint. I grabbed my stuff and headed to their booth.















That paint looked like it was dipped in GLASS. I was not about to allow some hack to screw it up and it wasn't even my car. I just love cars that much, no matter who it belongs to.

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redondoaveb

My scratch is on the drivers door so everytime I get in the car, I see it. It does irritate the hell out of me everytime I see it. I temporarily did fill it in the best I could with a quality base coat touch up paint so it's not real noticeable (except to me). Fortunately, it's on the door so I only have to have it re-sprayed.

Thank you for your help. By the way, that Cobra came out great, beautiful job.

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geeteezee

I've done it, a few days after applying. 'twas the Nissan paint stick.

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Junkman2008

More like the Nissan lipstick pen.

You ain't going to remove automotive paint with rubbing alcohol. Sounds like you are a victim of one of those paint pen commercials that sell those worthless touch-up pens in the wee hours of the night. Those things are worthless crap.

Here's a scratch that I removed from a car, where they actually used REAL TOUCH-UP PAINT to fix a scratch that went all the way down the side of a car. It looked like crap so they tried to wipe the paint off. From the pictures, you can see that it looked like crap when they finished. I did this at a CAR SHOW, not in my garage. The car was the rental car that I was driving and I purposely chose that car because of that damage. A buffer, sandpaper and a compound and a polish was all that I used. No rubbing alcohol was embarrassed during this repair.


























THAT'S how you fix paint when someone who knows nothing about how to fix a scratch decides to use touch-up paint.

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geeteezee

Like I said, it was a Nissan pen, from the dealer.
I suspect they're acrylic based lacquers which are susceptible to chemicals like isopropyl alcohol and nail polish remover, both of which are commonly used to 'knock down' paint chip repairs.

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