I have some small repairs to make, I've used https://www.paints4u.com/ before for touch up kits, just wondering if there are any other recommendations for aerosol paint...

I have the colour code, and will need a few tins, plus primer.

Is there much different in quality between brands/suppliers.

Also i read somewhere that flat colours don't use lacquer, is this correct?

Cheers

the paint is mixed using a computer according to code, the quality of paint is pretty much the same, the mix is then bottled and pressurized in the aerosol can.

it is quite probable you won't blend perfectly the aerosol paint with car's paint.

car's paint is old and faded, also an aerosol can is far from a spray gun.

but you can try buff the entire panel after painting with some compound paste and a lot of elbow grease.

flat paints have lacquer already mixed with paint.

Hi Guys,

 

 

I need to repair a scratch do it to my Felicia 1.3 MPI with a key ( front panel to back panel! ), and i was thinking using a "pen" to correct somehow  but reading about the aerosol cans might be a better solution. What do you suggest? Thanks.

 

 

Cheers,

 

MalkaTuga

I'd have a go with the pen/brush touch up kit if i was you

I'd have a go with the pen/brush touch up kit if i was you

Thank you ClarkE!  I will do that.

One of my neighbours had a scratch on his carand tried to cover it with aerosol and it looked worse than the scratch. He then tried to improve this with more and so the problem just got bigger.

 

I've had some success using a touch up pen and building the paint in the scratch until it stands above the surrounding paint. After a few days / a week to let the paint harden take a cloth wrapped over the edge of a credit card (or similar straight edge) and a small amount of rubbing compound or t-cut - very gently bring it back to the level of the surrounding paintwork.

 

Be extremely careful - you don't want to cut through the good paint and make things worse.

I just left mine keyed as it was rally red and could not match it bonnet just got sprayed matte black as lacquer pealed

I share Red Studio's misgivings about aerosols, but I have had success touching up some very minor blemishes on my 'elegant' Felicia (which I intend presently to advertise for sale in the appropriate forum section, should anyone be looking for a 1.3 MPi), using the pen/brush kit available from the big H (the only problem was getting the dam' cap off the thing).

However, I had the extraordinary advantage of a 'silver' paint colour, so I did not have to jump through flaming hoops in search of a 'match'.

Now, I have some quite serious repainting to do on my other, 'non-elegant' Felicia, to get her back on the road looking respectable (prior Cat C event leading to wing and bonnet replacement). My local VAG agent has kindly provided me with a listing of the colour names and codes for that era ... and, sure enough, the manufacturing colour is the one which is not available as an off-the-shelf aerosol from the big H. I am reluctant to spend a lot of time and money on the custom-matching services which are now available and yet still risk ending up driving a Dalmatian. (I don't much like the manufacturing colour in any case).

Sooo, I am very seriously considering HAND-painting the entire car 'silver', which will I hope obviate any future colour-matching issues (I'm not aiming for Concours d'Elegance, just a very easy way of keeping her looking reasonably shipshape in the years to come) - in fact so seriously that I've laid in a couple of litres of the good 'silver' 'metal' paint currently on offer at one of the two cut-price German supermarkets.

Before I jump, I shall be very grateful for feedback from any who have explored the hand-painting route.

I've hand painted with brush and yacht enamel - not bad - use good quality brushes and lots of thin coats.

I've also used gloss rollers and the result was more like a spray job in texture,

Lastly I've used an electric spray kit and that was rough - took a hell of a lot of flatting back.

 

The difficulty with metallic silver on a DIY basis is keeping the flake density and direction consistant. It can come out looking really blobby or banded. A solid colour, possibly white, may be easier.

 

Other problems with doing a whole car DIY are things landing in the paint. Some colours are worse than others - I did a canoe in a bright red/orange and it was a proper fly magnet. It may not be a problem if the type of paint hardens quickly but yacht paint doesn't.

 

This time of year the metal of the car body will be cold and spray paint cools as it leaves the can too so you may find the surface dulls as condensation forms or it may show itself later as micro-blisters.

Many thanks. I'll try a few test jobs before committing myself with the metallic paint.

I used paints4u and I have to say their service was second to none after confusion over a paint code issue

No I have nothing to do with them before you ask!

I just think good service is worth mentioning

I've managed some fair results in the past by spraying the aerosol into the can lid and painting it into the scratch with a fine artist's brush. Certainly not perfect, but the repair didn't catch the eye afterwards.