2005 TL: "My son took the snow off with a steel shovel"

Anthony A said:
Yeah silver metallic is brutal to work with. As soon as you attempt to level it you disturb the metallic and the color changes drastically.
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Do you ever use clear coat when you're doing touch-up work? I don't usually fill a defect to/over the top with color, I'll switch to using clear about halfway up in the chip/scratch. That way when I'm cutting it back down, I'm cutting clear instead of basecoat. That usually minimizes any color/texture change. ;)

Shiny Lil Detlr, I keep the blobs minimal to cut down on the amount of leveling I have to do. It takes some time though to properly fill the chip. I do it in steps because filling it in one attempt usually doesn't work.
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Yes, I do understand that. However, as I stated above, even one thin application too much in a short period of time can increase your cure time drastically. So between that and the hair dryer trick, I can cut down the wait time. I'm sure there's probably a better/more "proper" way of doing it though. :D
 
Shiny Lil Detlr said:
Do you ever use clear coat when you're doing touch-up work? I don't usually fill a defect to/over the top with color, I'll switch to using clear about halfway up in the chip/scratch. That way when I'm cutting it back down, I'm cutting clear instead of basecoat. That usually minimizes any color/texture change. ;)
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Yes I tried this but it looked like a chip still because the hole wasn't filled all the way with base coat. You can see through the clear and see that the chip is not filled.

Silver metallic is the best for hiding marring but a real challenge for chips. Black is the opposite, terrible for swirls and marring but a breeze for chips.
 
Anthony A: In all honesty, I have found paint matching to be a case by case affair. This one thankfully matched rather well but I have had some blacks that were dead off. With silver, I have found it rather easy to match. You may want to try paint from www.paintscratch.com instead.

I dried the paint in an 80* garage for about an hour. 1 hour for touching up, 1 hour for drying, 1 hour for sanding and compounding.


Mikeyc: Every body shop I've ever have spoken too all agreed Pearl White is by far the hardest, but like I said above...a lot depends on the manufacturer mixing the paint.
 
GSRstilez said:
Anthony A: In all honesty, I have found paint matching to be a case by case affair. This one thankfully matched rather well but I have had some blacks that were dead off. With silver, I have found it rather easy to match. You may want to try paint from www.paintscratch.com instead.
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:rockon I'm not the only crazy one!
 
GSRstilez said:
Anthony A: In all honesty, I have found paint matching to be a case by case affair. This one thankfully matched rather well but I have had some blacks that were dead off. With silver, I have found it rather easy to match. You may want to try paint from www.paintscratch.com instead.
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How do you manage to level a silver metallic touch up blob without changing the color match? As soon as I touch it with either wet sanding or Langka it totally changes color.
 
Anthony: I didn't use the Langka kit. I tried it out on this job and was not happy with it. It would be fine for minor chips but for a big job like this, sanding was the only way.
 
Another before shot (from a few weeks ago).

I'm still amazed at the improvement -and so is the owner.

Take a look at the upper areas of the looooooong scratches.

Do you see the dot/ding scratches (all 30 or so of them).

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