Touch-up Pens.
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Any pen paint can work fine, but I like Dr. Colorchip better. Either way, the key to getting a good match to cover the chip is in what you do after you apply the color. You can literally get the body to look like factory if you follow some steps in doin the work.
Needed supplies:
How to do it:
I've done this more times than I can count on cars, motorcycles and bicycles. Works awesome.
Needed supplies:
- Paint pen/tube
- Clear pen/tube
- 800 grit wet sandpaper
- 2000 grit wet sandpaper
- 3M/Meguiars polish - finish cut and the one up from that
How to do it:
- Clean the chip with auto body degreaser
- Lay a drop of paint onto the chip
- Let it dry
- take the 800 grit sandpaper, wet the body panel and sand the paint drop smooth to the chip edge. Try not to sand the surrounding area as much as possible.
- Lather, rinse, repeat until your finger can feel the transition between the chip paint and the original paint.
- Apply a drop of clear, repeating the above steps.
- Once smooth, use the 2000 grit paper (wet), to remove any tooth left by the 800 grit.
- Once dry, take the rougher of the two polish compound cuts and rub the hell out of the chip and surrounding body area until everything is an identical haze.
- Clean the surface of the panel.
- Put the the final polishing cut compound onto a rag and rub the crap out of the panel in circular motions until you can't tell there was ever a chip.
I've done this more times than I can count on cars, motorcycles and bicycles. Works awesome.
Any pen paint can work fine, but I like Dr. Colorchip better. Either way, the key to getting a good match to cover the chip is in what you do after you apply the color. You can literally get the body to look like factory if you follow some steps in doin the work.
Needed supplies:
How to do it:
I've done this more times than I can count on cars, motorcycles and bicycles. Works awesome.
Needed supplies:
- Paint pen/tube
- Clear pen/tube
- 800 grit wet sandpaper
- 2000 grit wet sandpaper
- 3M/Meguiars polish - finish cut and the one up from that
How to do it:
- Clean the chip with auto body degreaser
- Lay a drop of paint onto the chip
- Let it dry
- take the 800 grit sandpaper, wet the body panel and sand the paint drop smooth to the chip edge. Try not to sand the surrounding area as much as possible.
- Lather, rinse, repeat until your finger can feel the transition between the chip paint and the original paint.
- Apply a drop of clear, repeating the above steps.
- Once smooth, use the 2000 grit paper (wet), to remove any tooth left by the 800 grit.
- Once dry, take the rougher of the two polish compound cuts and rub the hell out of the chip and surrounding body area until everything is an identical haze.
- Clean the surface of the panel.
- Put the the final polishing cut compound onto a rag and rub the crap out of the panel in circular motions until you can't tell there was ever a chip.
I've done this more times than I can count on cars, motorcycles and bicycles. Works awesome.
I have had no problems with the Mitsu paint pen. Touch up paint, various stages of wetsanding, then polish with Menzerna and PC.
After touch up paint on 3 places on my hood (waiting to dry):
During wetsanding touch-up spots and some other scratches I wanted to take care of:
After wetsanding and 3 stages of polishing with PC:
After touch up paint on 3 places on my hood (waiting to dry):
During wetsanding touch-up spots and some other scratches I wanted to take care of:
After wetsanding and 3 stages of polishing with PC:
Those touchup pens are awful, and the dealer charging $15 is crazy. I had to get one for my EVO 8 since it was lighting Yellow, I could not find that color anywhere in the touchup paint section at napa or autozone. So I got it from the dealership... plus I had to order it they didnt even have it in stock! How retarded.... $15 plus had to wait 2-3 days then go back to pick it up.
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