Im just wondering what are ur ways for touching up your super white TC's? i'm using factory touch up paint but when it dries, its a different shade of white...

 

 

=D is that the factory shade?

 

Unfortunately touch up will 99% of the time not match. A lot of the times it is because of how it is being applied. A brush on the cap or coming out of a HVLP spray gun. Also it doesn't help that there are variances for most automotive colors. (Yellower, darker, greener, finer, etc.) This doesn't make the job easy for painters, such as myself. Everyday we fight with colors getting them to match. That's why we always blend into the adjacent panels to make the repaired areas less noticeable. It is very difficult to panel paint colors, especially now a days with the pearls and metallics. I do believe this is what you are encountering granted it isnt a metallic you have the standard paint formula in your paint bottle and touching up chips just masks the flaw it will not totally go away.

 

yeah its really hard to find a matching paint... im just looking for something thats close to the super white.. cause factory touch-ups or for that matter... anywhere else... are always shades darker

 

Especially with the metallics and stuff, the direction you paint makes a huge change in how it looks to you. The problem is I can never figure out exactly how they sprayed all the panels so that when I get new parts they can match best.

 

how big is the touch up section? if it big. maybe u should put some primer and clear with the color too. But then again no touch up will match perfectly

 

its on my side skirt... people getting in and out kicking it on the passenger side... -_-....

 

i just clipped my front lip on one of the islands at the gas station
so now theres a 4 in scratch...it sucks having SW since the body is black underneath
i know this is off topic and im not trying to threadjack or anything, but i was washing my car the other day and i noticed tiny spots(kind of like freckles)all over my rear bumper. if you look up close it looks like if rust was underneath the paint ...but i know its not rust...is this happening to anyone else ? ill post pix when i get home

 

^^It's industrial fall out, particles in the air, road tar, etc. Get a clay bar, that will take car of it.

 

thanks dude...ill give it a try