Maintenance & Repair: Touch up paint (bottles, rather than Aerosols)

"Doki" <com> mumbled:
 

I don't think you can touch up pearlescent like that. The way the flakes
flop over is controlled by the operator and as I understand it, damage
involves having the whole panel sprayed and even then it may not match.

Silly idea, pearlescent.

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Guy King <co.uk> wrote in message
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I wouldn't really care if I had to touch it up with black, as long as it's
the right colour black - they're only small patches and nobody would really
notice the lack of pearlescentness once the paint was blended in against the
old paintwork. IME a half decent bodyshop can match pearlescent very well,
and I'm very picky about paint.

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"Doki" <com> wrote:
 

You'll probably find pearlescent is not available in any formulae other
than two pack.

Ford "Panther black" has dozens of colour variations so trying to match
a touch up stick, bottle or an aerosol will be almost impossible.

You cannot simply get paint to match the car in pearlescent, You have to
spray by matching air pressure, paint volume, metallic flow etc.

Steve.



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Stephen Hull <com> wrote in message
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Actual variations in the colour of the paint, or the shiney pearl / metal
bits?
 

Jesus H Christ. I might just sell the bloody thing and buy plain black car.
Where it's been sprayed with 2 pack it's chipped like an absolute swine
(bottom of a door, gets all the stones flicked at it by the front wheel).
Would I be able to get a vaguely correct looking colour of black made up?
I'm only talking about 1 or 2mm round chips I'd like to get covered.

Looks like the other chips are going to involve having half the car
resprayed...

"Doki" <com> wrote in message news:<uk.clara.net>... 
One of our cars IS plain old solid black. When touched up you just
cannot see the repair when you stand back from the car.
Re Pearlescent (and metallic)
I think the "comic" car mags and "reverse gear" TV car programmes are
responsible. Constantly telling the public cars are worthless unless
in metallic.... pearlescent is just an extreme in the same theme.
What total crap to sell these paint jobs as "desirable" when even at
the legal limit in the outside lane of a motorway the closing speed of
passing (other carriageway) traffic is 140mph. With all the grit,
small (and large) stones hitting at over 70mph.
Great for the companies and Reps.These heavily chipped cars are sold
at a higher price due to the perceived desirability of metallic paint,
to private owners who pay the price in resprays.Or just suffer a car
scabby with either chips or blatantly obvious touch up that cannot
blend in.
As for pearlescent.....For regular use..it should not be let out of
the showroom
Looks like you were taken into the desirability myth Doki. Try a solid
paint job next time.
I once had a metallic silver paint job. First trip onto a motorway a
wheel nut hit the side of the car. You could see the (tiny) touch up
mark 50 yards away.... Bought solid paint jobs ever since..

"Doki" <com> mumbled:
 

Yup. Avoid pearl, avoid black.

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Mike <com> wrote in message
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TBH I didn't notice the paint was metallic when I bought it. You don't
really pearlescent black until you're pretty close up to it.
 

Nice. Pearlescent paint (and hence difficulties in touching up) with Ford's
brilliant rustproofing isn't much fun. I wouldn't buy another Ford now
simply because the things seem to be intent on rusting themselves to bits.
Don't even get me started on how difficult it is to compound. Or the fact
that the door handle broke a bit back, and one of the things that holds the
seat together died and dropped out a while ago. Wouldn't be so irritating if
my mechanic hadn't said "oh yeah, they're a bugger, they're the same as they
put on the escort, they're always doing it". That must be well over 10 years
or so for Ford to sort out the design of a door handle and make a seat that
doesn't drop to bits. Admittedly the seat clips are at least cheap, but door
handles are £20...

"Doki" <com> wrote in message
BIG SNIP
I wouldn't buy another Ford now 
Snip
Yes, been there and not going back.
And as for Rover/AustinRover/Blmc/BMC...........( and BMW by association
Good luck with it Doki... Hope you find a solution...
Everyone knocks solid black... It shows up dust and scratches, sure.
But its great for touch up. Its fine on one of our cars.
Mike