Hi Everyone!!

I parked in my garage and I think someone hit the bumper of my car. I was able to clear off most of the white paint (my little scion is flint mica).

I bought the bumper guard for her and you can't see the nick anymore but you can see a speck of white paint. Nobody else can probably see it but I know it's there and she's not even a month old.

I was reading on the forum that there's tough-up paint you can use but I was wondering....if it's a tiny nick would it be better just using a Sharpie? And if touch-up paint is better where can I get it? Or if it's better taking her to the Scion dealer and seeing what they can do?

Allie

 

Just go get the Dupli-Color touch up paint.....shake it well!

Use light coats, don't try to fill it in all at once, paint shrinks as it dries.

 

You should clean the nick first with rubbing alcohol and get rid of the white part. Go to the dealer and get your touch up paint. I don't think dublicolor has that color. They are weak when it comes to Scion touch up paint. Then, if it's small, put a dab of paint on a piece of clean cardboard and use a tooth pick to aply the paint right whre you need it. It may take several applications till it's filled up cause it does shrink after it dries. Then finish off with a final coat of clearcoat touch up.

 

edit, I am a bigger moron than I thought...

 

< smacks head... I knew DC didn't do flint... I had to order a tube from the dealer for the daughter's C..... It only took 3 months to get it.

 

Holy poop, three months? Only took about three minutes at my dealer.

 

The parts goob didn't even know where to look for the code...."Flint what??? Is that a Toyota color??"

 

Oh geez....that had to be a summer job for him............I hope.

 

Don't you just hate it when someone does something like that to your car and just drives off. I remember when I started driving to High School, it was like '78 or '79, I had bought a '66 Beetle and done the bodywork, it didn't need much, wet sanded it and had a friend of my brothers paint it Aqua or Ultra-marine Blue Poly. The first week of school someone keyed it across the drivers door and rear quarter panel, man I was ____ed. That thing looked great with Empi wheels and all.

Anyway back to the subject:
The suggestion of using a toothpick is a great idea, that's what the auto mechanics teacher suggested I try and it worked but it was still never the same. I talked to a guy the other and he said Toyota had touch-up paint in a fine point pen applicator, I hope that's true, I need to fix a rock mark on my hood already.

 

Yes it's true that the Toyo touch up paint comes with a fine point pen tip and a small brush because that's what I have. I'm clueless on how well the pen works though.

 

The pen is a joke. It's hard to control exactly where the paint goes. If you put a dab on a business card and use a toothpick you can put it exactly where you want it plus control how much. I use this technique for touching up my rock chips up front.

 

That's good to know. How thin is the paint, will it fill up a small rock chip with one app or does it take a couple?

 

It's thin but dries quickly. It all depends on the depth of the chip. Also, it shrinks up as it dries. You just keep adding it with about 10 mins. between coats till it's almost full then finish with clear to blend it in. It just takes practice.
I've got it down to the point where I'll over fill it then wetsand it flat with some 2000 paper and buff it and it completely disappears.

 

Where can I find "clear" touch up paint?

 

Duplicolor carries the clear.

 

I can't find it around here....and I need some bad!

 

Do you know what kind of rubbing alcohol? I saw 2 at the pharmacy...isopropyl and ethyl. Just wanted to make sure beforehand....


Thanks!!

Allie

 

I think it's isopropyl 90%

 

Thank you!!