Touch-up paint.

[milleplod]

My R500 is finished in Tansanite blue - you only have to walk past it and there's a mark on the paint! Trawling eBay and other places for a touch-up stick (I'm generally averse to dealers...), I dropped on item no. 280965619816, sold by 'ukautospares' - £4.25 for 30ml of paint, including delivery.

Having taken the plunge, I've just spent the last half hour or so touching in a few obvious marks, and I'm really, really pleased with the results.

The paint has just the right consistency to 'fill' deeper scratches, and the colour match is perfect. Highly recommended!

Pete

 

[renault12ts]

I just ordered some on your recommendation.

How did you apply it?

 

[milleplod]

It came with the usual brush in the lid, but I stole a couple of my daughter's Harris artist's brushes - a fine, chisel one and a fine, pointed one. They did the job a treat as they're more controllable than the fiddly lid-mounted one....my only problem was working so close to something, I realised I need new glasses!

Pete

 

[zipdip]

I bought some Tansanite touch up paint,I bought It at Halfords, I know shudder,horror, ,sniggers,but they had a guy who mixed it up took about 30 mins,cost about £10,and it is a great match,I did the same as you got a small artist brush much better than the brush attached to the lid

 

[The Dude]

....really small marks are often best filled with a cocktail stick!

 

[alzieboy]

....really small marks are often best filled with a cocktail stick!

Having first removed the cherry.

 

[Lit91]

I just buy the touch up from the dealer, it's not too expensive, 100% colour match and can be picked up at any time. The brushes are useless, but I use a very fine brush from hobby craft.

Tansanite blue is beautiful, shame that nothing can be done to prevent stone chips, they will just be coming and coming.

 

[milleplod]

I just buy the touch up from the dealer, it's not too expensive, 100% colour match and can be picked up at any time. The brushes are useless, but I use a very fine brush from hobby craft.

Tansanite blue is beautiful, shame that nothing can be done to prevent stone chips, they will just be coming and coming.

True indeed! I was going to have the bonnet resprayed as its got so many chips on it - but then I realised how seriously ****ed off I'd be once the chips start again!!

I decided I'd stick with the 'lived-in, battle-scarred' look!

I wonder why they can't use dark blue primer under dark blue paint....

Pete

 

[Lit91]

True indeed! I was going to have the bonnet resprayed as its got so many chips on it - but then I realised how seriously ****ed off I'd be once the chips start again!!

I decided I'd stick with the 'lived-in, battle-scarred' look!

I wonder why they can't use dark blue primer under dark blue paint....

Pete

The problem is not so much in the paint, but the loose stones and debris on the road. The quality of UK roads seems to be on a constant downhill, so whatever the colour of the car, the stone chips are going to appear and will be visible no matter what the colour of the primer is.

I haven't seen any respray jobs which have been as good as a factory finish, and for that reason, I'd rather have a touched up bonnet rather than a rubbish paint job which will bother me much more.

Only advice is to Keep Calm and Touch Up

 

[KeithJG]

Sadly this is the price for galactic speeds!

Just had a a scratch about 5mm long up on the drivers top door frame right in the middle, so now although touched up i keep looking at it and i have new glasses so it stands right out at me.....

 

[Lit91]

Sadly this is the price for galactic speeds!

Just had a a scratch about 5mm long up on the drivers top door frame right in the middle, so now although touched up i keep looking at it and i have new glasses so it stands right out at me.....

At least it shows that the car is being used for its purpose

 

[BEA76]

Some years ago I had a Crow strike at high speed in my Pug 205, blasted thing scratched the whole bonnet from front lip up to the wiper arm that he sheared the splines out of..... Little b*gger if there had been enough left I would have reversed over him, I lived with the scratch for months but it bugged me so much I resorted to a bonnet respray.

 

[zenman63]

I haven't seen any respray jobs which have been as good as a factory finish, and for that reason, I'd rather have a touched up bonnet rather than a rubbish paint job which will bother me much more.

You need a good body shop, not easy to find but done right you will never know.