Hello

Has anybody here used a touch up paint for your car? I have the paint together with the clear coat but what else is needed? The paint is Italian Racing Red, which is xirallic.

Is there a good guide on how to do this and what you need?

 

Lots of How to Videos on U tube.
Looking at the picture, I would get a good clay bar and clean the paint then see what needs a touch up.

 

Those look smaller than the typical brush that comes in touch-up paint bottles. I got micro-applicators from these folks, who also provided the paint and clearcoat:

https://www.automotivetouchup.com/

Just the smallest drop of color should do it. I think they have instructional information on their site too. Don't work in the sun and watch the surface temperature.

 

It is really easy to make a mess. Personally, I use toothpicks and make 100% sure it doesn't leave large drop.

 

That's what I'd done in the past, but the "micro dabbers" (I just looked them up, $8 for 100) from that supplier are what I've been using of late. I added them to the order when I got the paint. At the time, the dealer was unable to get touch-up paint for my car, and recommended them.

 

For those little damages I use only the paint with a little bit thinner und without clear coat.

 

Do yourself a huge favor and take it to a pro. They’ll make it look good as new.

 

Use “Doctor Color Chip” there paint is spot on and the process to level it out works flawless.

 

I have used this product/technique to repair chips its a really fast way to cover up chips but not completely repair them. It makes chips pretty invisible but at the right angle you can still see paint damage.

If you are really patient and careful you can use the techniques in this article to get an almost invisible result:

https://www.popularmechanics.com/car...ped-car-paint/

 

The product looks interesting but it doesn't ship to my country, Sweden.

 

if you want to do it by yourself, go to a dollarstore and grab a bunch of painting brushes, they range from tiny to big so you can use them for any application.

 

I too created a blob

In my case, it looks like the paint on the car puckered upward, thus holding the paint. There was still some touchup paint around the edges. To fix the blob, I surrounded it with blue painters tape (many small pieces to form a kind of circle, and swabed them in a circular motion with a QTip at the blob. It’s better now and I’m just going to leave alone.

Next time (and I hope there isn’t one) I’ll use the toothpick method. Other than that, I’ll have the bonnet repainted and clear wrapped.

Last thing: I don’t drive too close to trucks in front of me.

 

I will second DR Colorchip. No blob if used correctly. It's an easy process, but if you want it perfectly level, you might have to repeat a couple of times.

 

I just ordered a bottle of paint for my IRR. There are some really small "spots" on the hood that I want to fill in before I put on a clear bra and then the ceramic coating. I also want to touch up a few spots around the car. I have ordered a Colorchip kit before, and made sure I carefully read the directions. It's a pretty decent process that satisfied me enough to feel good about it.

 

What about Mr Colorchip?

 

He never went to uni and got an MD so he's only Mr not Dr.

 

Honerary degree maybe?

 

Save up the return envelopes you get n your junk mail. Punch the size hole you need in the adhesive strip. Lick and stick.

 

I have used the Dr. Colorchip paint kit twice. Both times on metallic paint. In one case it was lighter than the factory paint, in the other it was darker. A fail as far as color matching.
However it did a pretty good job of filling the chips. One car only needed one application, the other needed two to bring the paint up to the level of the surrounding area.

But I found the method of using a latex gloved finger to smear the paint cross the chip to be unsatisfactory. I had a little silicone squeegee that came with a screen protector kit for a cell phone and that worked perfectly to level the blob. You would think for what Dr. Colorchip charges for their kit that they could also include a silicone squeegee like the one that came with a $10 cell phone screen protector.

 

But if he did do a graduate degree, say a doctorate in chip repair, then he definitely would be Dr Colorchip.