What colour is the worst to touch up Paint Chips?

[jhorton]

I was just wondering from everyones experience what paint colour you find to be the worst to touch up. I have a black grand am gt and I find any paint chips I try to touch up stand out like a sore thumb when it is waxed and clean.

[LargeFish]

Black is probably a good guess.

[XtremeGrandAm]

Touch up paint just sucks in general I have never really seen it not stick out on any color.

[mom2mac]

my black satin metallic ont he Ford has been easy.....the dark garnet was easy, red is easy unless your Kelly :P

colours that are harder....that darned medium blue mettalic pearl coat was impossible :lol: loved that car and the colour but DANG everything showed on it :( I'd guess harder colours are those weird shades of blues and greens...the pretty ones :(

[Themeneea]

bright white is easy

[klc317]

My bright red GA has a 3 rock chip places that were touched up by the previous owner or the dealer that I bought it from. They look like s**t, but nobody else would notice them except for me. When I first got my car, the entire hood looked nasty (swirls and spiderwebs in the paint) ...like someone had used the car-wash brush on it. Fortunately I have a friend who works at a body shop, and I paid him a few "off-time" bucks to buff it out for me...it looks smooth as glass now!!

[navybluese00]

Medium Blue and Navy Blue Metallic are the hardest GA colors to match. I have one small rock chip in the hood. So far, I've left it alone because if I touch it up, it's going to look worse than the rock chip does now. I just try to keep it sealed up with a coat of wax until I can figure out what to do with it. If anyone has any ideas, please share!

[martopg]

Hey my car's Manta Green and I have had quite a few rock chips lately... Anyone have tips on how to touch up these things? I plan on doing it as soon as I get the car back from the shop and I would like to make it as nice as possible... Do I just put the paint on and hope it looks alright?

[navybluese00]

That's exactly what I was afraid of doing. What if you put it on, and it's horrible? There might be a couple of spots to test it out on before you apply it where you want. I was thinking about when you open the hood, the section above the grill is a good test spot. What about what paint to use? I haven't looked into this yet, but can't you buy touch up paint that matches the color of your car from GM? Is it actually the same paint?

[martopg]

Yeah I just stopped by GI Joe's a little while ago (it's a sports / auto parts store) and they have a little section with touch up paints accompanied by a book telling which models of which years came in which colors, etc etc. They DID have the exact color of my car, but I didn't buy it yet...

[navybluese00]

I'll have to check that out on a hidden spot and see how it looks.........

[smitz123]

the bluish/green color on my 96 GA GT I think is the worst color no matter how you do it, it will never match right....touch up paint sucks though in any color you have!

[JayDoc]

Try this: http://www.langka.com/index2.htm. Works great.

Here's a couple more sites with instructions and results: http://www.impalahq.com/ (look in How To section); http://www.celicagarage.citymax.com/page/page/382306.htm.

[martopg]

Originally posted by smitz123
the bluish/green color on my 96 GA GT I think is the worst color no matter how you do it, it will never match right....touch up paint sucks though in any color you have!

Oh man... I think this is the same color mine is... mine's "Manta Green." I think I'll soon try to do the touch-ups anyways...