Touch up paint?
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From: Commerce, Mich.
Alot of how well the touch up works, has to do with the color. I have used vivid black and was able to blend it in and make it very hard to find.
On the black pearl, you can do a pretty decent job, but on the Sun Glo's...Forget about it...I had a dent with cracked paint on the feont fender, and since its also pinstripped, I was unwilling to take it to a painter. I was able to get teh dent out, and taking mytime ( over a 4 week period) I was able to minimize the apperence. Its still there...but it doesn't jump out and bite ya in the ****.
With the Candy Red Sunglo, they paint it with a 3 stage application. But HD sells a touch up kit with only 2 of those stages..Base is a silver, and topcoat is a tinted clear..I must have redone the repair twenty times before I was even close to satisfied with the result. But remember, I was working on a 1 inch diameter area. not a simple scratch.
On the black pearl, you can do a pretty decent job, but on the Sun Glo's...Forget about it...I had a dent with cracked paint on the feont fender, and since its also pinstripped, I was unwilling to take it to a painter. I was able to get teh dent out, and taking mytime ( over a 4 week period) I was able to minimize the apperence. Its still there...but it doesn't jump out and bite ya in the ****.
With the Candy Red Sunglo, they paint it with a 3 stage application. But HD sells a touch up kit with only 2 of those stages..Base is a silver, and topcoat is a tinted clear..I must have redone the repair twenty times before I was even close to satisfied with the result. But remember, I was working on a 1 inch diameter area. not a simple scratch.
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From: Fredericksburg, Va
Go to Color Rite: http://www.colorrite.com/
They sell all the stages for whatever paint you got and can be looked up via year/make / model to ensure you get the right one. A "paint pen" that matches is about $15 however, you can buy whatever you need.
They sell all the stages for whatever paint you got and can be looked up via year/make / model to ensure you get the right one. A "paint pen" that matches is about $15 however, you can buy whatever you need.
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Tourer
Joined: Jun 2006
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From: Ringgold, GA
well...it is black pearl, I actually tried to buff some of it, and the fine places went away and its actually under the tank emblem where it begins to roll under to the frame, I may try and get a paint pen and then if it doesn't work for me, I'll get my painter to do it, which my painter is Kenny Reynolds...He matched my fenders perfect
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Joined: Dec 2012
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From: Alexandria VA
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Go to Color Rite: http://www.colorrite.com/
They sell all the stages for whatever paint you got and can be looked up via year/make / model to ensure you get the right one. A "paint pen" that matches is about $15 however, you can buy whatever you need.
They sell all the stages for whatever paint you got and can be looked up via year/make / model to ensure you get the right one. A "paint pen" that matches is about $15 however, you can buy whatever you need.
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