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Paint touch up tips
Several people have asked me for help in touching up their vehicles paint with professional results so here goes. The first thing you will need is the proper paint code off your vehicle.
Once you have your paint code I would recommend visiting your local auto paint supplier and having them mix you a small amount of the appropriate colour in a can (touch up sticks from the manufacturer don't tend to match perfectly IMO). I use standox paint for my business and highly recommend it due to its high quality and perfect colour matching (Standox is a little more expensive but I use it day in and day out and trust me it's the best).
You will also need to pick up a 3M rubber squeegee usually used for wet sanding but we need it for a different purpose. Also get a small bottle of 3M body prep solvent and a small package of tork 909 polishing cloths.
First remove all waxes and silicones from the chips you want to fill with the body prep sol and a clean lint free rag. Once all the chips are prepped, you will need the rubber squeegee and the paint you had mixed (it will help if you put a small amount of paint into a small squeeze bottle for ease of use). Squeeze a small amount of paint onto the edge of the squeegee and pull the paint across a chip. You don't want to leave a large amount of excess paint around the chip if possible so use sparingly. This will have filled the chip with paint and left a samll amount of paint on the surrounding paint (don't worry about this as we will remove it later).
Go ahead and touch up all the chips on the vehicle using this methos and wait about 15 min for the paint to set up.
Once the paint has dried you will need the squeegee again so clean it up and rmove all the paint from it with some thinners and wrap the squeegee with a tork towel (you want the towel tight and smooth across the surface of the squeegee). Apply a small amount of prep sol to the tork towel and gently sweep the squeegee across the chips you have painted (apply no pressure - let the solvent do the work). You should be slowly removing the excess paint from around the chips (once again - make sure the tork towel is tight and you don't use any pressure or you will pull the paint out of the chip).
Once you have removed all the excess paint the chips should be filled with paint and be nearly invisible. You should get a very fine artists brush now and touch up all door edges and spots that can not be squeegeed (apply the smallest amount of paint possible and re-apply if needed).
Let the paint set up for another 30 min and remove any residue from the prep sol with any QD you wish to use or wash the car with a good car wash soap.
This technique is very similar to what I use but has been modified slightly because the materials available to me are not available to the public.
Good Luck.
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