I hope we share the knowledge on how we got the black scratches painted using the Touch up paint that comes with the Lexus.

I had a small scratch at the back, i used the Touch up Paint with the "Ears cleaner cotton shown in blue.

 

q-tip is ok, but you can easily transfer some of those cotton fiber on to the body panels, no good

the new touchup paint here in the US all have the "pen tip" on themselves already. much easier to use. you just "write" on the body panels

 

Has anyone tried this yet ?

Source:
http://www.paintscratch.com/paintpen.htm

 

I've never known anyone besides an auto body shop to do this and not have it be detectable. I know I've tried and failed.

 

I've used always used a paint tip touchup and a clearcoat pen. It's not going to look like there's no touchup at all but it covers the scratch and protects the metal.

 

FYI black paint on LS 460 does not have a clear coat therefore is much more apt to chip

 

Thanks for posting that UAE. I've copied it for future, but hopefully unnecessary, use!

The only thing is if you have a very narrow scratch, sanding the primer is impossible without scratching the immediate surrounding area.

 

i thought we had a long discussion on this and the final conclusion was there IS clear coat

i detailed two black ls460 already and my supplies didn't get black...

 

The Obsidian Black is covered with two (2) clear coats. I don't know where these rumours start regarding newer cars, but they are baseless. Car manufacturers haven't used single stage paints since 1985. However if they did, the single stage "acrylic" enamels would be harder than the water based clearcoats used today, and thus be much more scratch resistant... Naturally, older cars that still have single paints would be re-coated with same, unless they choose to "upgrade" as it were.

 

actually, i believe some of the black onyx on late 90s gs or first year is300 didn't have clear coat. i remember reading about it and someone proved it.

but the obsidian definitely has clear coat....