Where can i get touch up paint (spray can)?
Oct 28, 2007, 08:31 PM
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Where can i get touch up paint (spray can)?
i have an apex silver evo and was wondering where i can get matching touch up paint that comes in a spray can? i had my fenders rolled by robi a while back and he gave me a website where i could get some, but i lost it and have not been able to get a hold of him. definitely appreciate the help!
Oct 29, 2007, 03:45 PM
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just go to your local auto body supply shop, ask them, many can put PPG paint into a rattle can that is a near direct match. Typically it's $15-$20 per can.
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Oct 29, 2007, 04:05 PM
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^^ i will try that, i got a cwest front bumper and got to close to a parking bump and now got like a 2 inch spot near the bottom lip where the paint came off, no cracks or anything. so im thinking about just taping that section off and using the spray can paint (cant decide whether one or two coats) and then a coat or two the the clear coat (spray can). what do you guys think?
Oct 29, 2007, 04:36 PM
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The reason it peeled off is because whoever painted it first didn't use a good adhesion promoter or a flex-additive in the clear coat.
If it's flaking off with a flex, it's just going to get worse. I would not suggest a spray can touch-up over a bumper.
Bring it to a shop, have them strip it and re-do it this time the proper way.
Sorry dude.
If it's flaking off with a flex, it's just going to get worse. I would not suggest a spray can touch-up over a bumper.
Bring it to a shop, have them strip it and re-do it this time the proper way.
Sorry dude.
Oct 29, 2007, 04:42 PM
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i tryed touchin up some of my chips and looks pretty good cept for the spot on my door. went to a local body shop and they gave me a lil bottle thing of touch up paint
Oct 29, 2007, 06:09 PM
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^+1 Go to a body shop. They can give you 10-20 oz of touch-up paint in a bottle for cheap. That's what I have and make sure you store it on room temperature so it last longer.
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Hmm, that pic is pretty blurry. You want to look at the edges of where the paint started to come off. If it looks like the impact itself is what rubbed off the paint, then you just need to have it touched up at a body shop. If however the impact pulled paint from past the impact point, then the paint doesn't have a flex-additive in it, and doesn't adhere to the bumper well. If this is the case, it needs to be stripped and re-done.
Think of it this way... If you have a flex additive, it's like putting a rubber coating on a rubber ball, when something impacts it, the ball and the coating both flex, so the paint is only damaged where the immediate impact is.
If you don't have a flex additive, it's like putting a hard candy coating on a rubber ball. When something squeezes the ball, it cracks through the paint, then pulls the ball away from the paint inward. as the paint can't support itself the paint flakes away from around the impact point. Sometimes if the paint adheres well to the bumper, but does not have a flex additive, it creates a spiderweb cracking effect around the impact point.
In either case, the correct fix is to take it to a body shop. Touch up paints don't have flex additives in it.
Think of it this way... If you have a flex additive, it's like putting a rubber coating on a rubber ball, when something impacts it, the ball and the coating both flex, so the paint is only damaged where the immediate impact is.
If you don't have a flex additive, it's like putting a hard candy coating on a rubber ball. When something squeezes the ball, it cracks through the paint, then pulls the ball away from the paint inward. as the paint can't support itself the paint flakes away from around the impact point. Sometimes if the paint adheres well to the bumper, but does not have a flex additive, it creates a spiderweb cracking effect around the impact point.
In either case, the correct fix is to take it to a body shop. Touch up paints don't have flex additives in it.
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