Paint touch up pens

mjheathcote

mjheathcote

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Just phoned my local Maser main dealer, and they have informed me that Maserati/Ferrari do not sell paint touch up pens!
So, where can I get a little paint...Sebring Blue...to dab the odd stone chip?
Cheers
Mike
 
npaskin

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When I bought my car, the dealer (Carrs of Exeter) provided a small pot of paint (it has a touch up brush in the top), said it was standard for them to do that because you couldn't buy the touch up paint retail; I assume mixed in their body shop. Coincidentally I just used it for the first time, tiny chip on the lower skirt by the back wheel.
 
conaero

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Believe it or not, Halfords.

Take your paint code in there and they will mix you up a decent size paint pen for less than a tenner. Its more than adequate for touching in, and this is what I have used on a couple of nasty chips I have on the GTS. Being a flat colour (not lacquered) you can then wet sand the filled chips and then polish to a mirror finish.

Metallics are more difficult to do as the lacquer totally transforms the depth of the paint and you wet sanding (colour sanding) does not really work on these.
 
conaero

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They mix the paint from bottles. They can mix all colours from about a set of 20 different colours. As I said, fine for touch up, don't know if I would trust it for a panel spray. They will mix it into an aerosol too if you want for about £12.
 
mjheathcote

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Conaero said:
They mix the paint from bottles. They can mix all colours from about a set of 20 different colours. As I said, fine for touch up, don't know if I would trust it for a panel spray. They will mix it into an aerosol too if you want for about £12.
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As long as its near it's okay.
From past experience the colour match with metallics when dabbing in a little chip is never good, but something is better than nothing.
Thanks
Mike
 
mjheathcote

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£12.18 Halfords all sorted!
100ml pot and also a touch-up 'pen' and brush.
Done in less than 10 minutes, enough time for me to laugh at the Chav area with 'try me' display packs of multicolour LED lights, thought I was in Toys R Us at one stage!
Cheers
Mike
 
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