Screwed with touch up paint!
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Lead Lap
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Screwed with touch up paint!
Hey guys, me and a few friends were working on my old G20 and tried to fix the rear bumper that someone at Albertsons hit and ran 
. We thought we could really just clean the affected area(s) with rubbing alcohol and touch up the area with the OEM paint provided (this was before I got the Gx470 and joined CL). Boy were we wrong. What can do to make the area look decent??
. We thought we could really just clean the affected area(s) with rubbing alcohol and touch up the area with the OEM paint provided (this was before I got the Gx470 and joined CL). Boy were we wrong. What can do to make the area look decent??
After covering up the necessary areas with touchup paint, you'll need to wetsand the area so that the touchup paint levels off with the original paint. On metallic colors, it's much harder to perfect, but it'll look better than what you have now. Basically what you did was made the pizza without adding in sause, cheese, pepperoni, etc 
General misconception with touch up is that you can just dab it on and forget it. You'll need to wetsand to evenly match the paint and then buff out the fine scratches with a polish (like 3M rubbing compound, meguiars DACP, etc). But you'll have to clean up the surface first (wash area, and then claybar if possible)Then you put on a layer of wax to make it pretty
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Here is an example of my car. It has two long/deep scratches on the fender.:
Applying touch up paint. (basically what you did so far)
After wetsanding with 1000 grit and then moving onto 2000 grit:
Final result after polishing:
My paint is just black without any metallic or goodies, so repairing it was easy.
General misconception with touch up is that you can just dab it on and forget it. You'll need to wetsand to evenly match the paint and then buff out the fine scratches with a polish (like 3M rubbing compound, meguiars DACP, etc). But you'll have to clean up the surface first (wash area, and then claybar if possible)Then you put on a layer of wax to make it pretty
. Here is an example of my car. It has two long/deep scratches on the fender.:
Applying touch up paint. (basically what you did so far)
After wetsanding with 1000 grit and then moving onto 2000 grit:
Final result after polishing:
My paint is just black without any metallic or goodies, so repairing it was easy.
is blue onyx metallic? If it's just straight color without added sparkles and such, I'm willing to bet you can make it look like there was never a scratch to begin with!
The hardes thing about this job is color matching. But since my black onyx doesn't have sparkle in it, the hardest thing was paint leveling. It's just takes a lot of patience, but it was worth it considering you could see my two 7" scratches from a mile away
The hardes thing about this job is color matching. But since my black onyx doesn't have sparkle in it, the hardest thing was paint leveling. It's just takes a lot of patience, but it was worth it considering you could see my two 7" scratches from a mile away
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Lead Lap
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Looks pretty tough but i dont have anything to loose. Thanks for the help GSTEG
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It looks like you didn't shake the touch-up paint so the color is off. And yes, wet sanding is a good idea to smooth out the paint. And you need clearcoat touch-up paint as well.
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I wrote this last year, it's essentially the same thing GSTeg did; and he is absolutely right; need to wetsand and polish. 
http://autopia.org/forum/click-brag/...t=3000+unigrit
http://autopia.org/forum/click-brag/...t=3000+unigrit
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