Old owner wrong touch-up paint
The previous owner touched up spots on the body and the paint looks completely different color grey ( mine is KAD ). Can I just re touch-up those spot again with better paint ?
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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. :shakes head: http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...psd229459a.jpg http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...ps0e247fdf.jpg http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...psb73c4c22.jpg http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...ps634f581d.jpg http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...ps47ef9e75.jpg http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...ps7c4d5bae.jpg http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...ps3f2600b1.jpg http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...psb30c0f80.jpg http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...psc56ac183.jpg http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...psf1460eab.jpg http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...pse4ef5a26.jpg http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...ps519eb636.jpg 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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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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1. Live with it. :eek: 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. :tup: 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. :icon14: 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. http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...fordshow18.jpg http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...fordshow19.jpg http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...fordshow20.jpg http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...fordshow21.jpg http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...fordshow22.jpg http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...fordshow23.jpg http://www.the370z.com/members/junkm...fordshow24.jpg 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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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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Thank you for your help. By the way, that Cobra came out great, beautiful job. |
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