Paint touch-up
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Paint touch-up
I'd like a recommendation for purchasing a touch-up stick,the kind that looks like nail polish with a applicator stick inside. My ride is a 2000 XK8 in the color TITANIUM, had it wrong the first time... Thanks. Bob
Last edited by Bob OB; 04-10-2013 at 04:27 PM. Reason: wrong color before...
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IMO this company makes a better product than most dealer touch-up paint: http://www.automotivetouchup.com/
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+1 about Automotivetouchup.com they have a wide variety of bottles, spray cans, applicators, prep materials and finishing products. So far everything I've purchased from them has been great stuff!
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Touch Up Paint | Car Touch Up Paints £7.99
Another is Paints4U:
Choose Car paints from the UKs biggest online colour database
With both suppliers, colour is matched from the Jaguar three letter paint code.
Graham
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I continue to be amazed by the fact that no paint touch-ups have been required on either of our Jaguars. Not bad for a couple of vehicles each pushing eight years old (both built in May 2005). We've owned the S-Type since December 2008 and the XK8 since February 2012. Kudos to Jaguar for utilizing an exemplary paint system....
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A quick question for you paint gurus. On my 2005 XKR it has been impossible for me to avoid various scuffs/scrapes on the very bottom of the front bumper right in front of the black valence piece. I know that this area is generally not visible except if you are on the ground or the car is up on the rack but still I have tried keeping after the scuffs with the standard brush-in-the-bottle touch up paint from Jaguar.
I notice that the AutomotiveTouchUp site offers paints in various forms including an aerosol spray can. I assume this would work much better for the under bumper scuffs and was wondering if anyone had luck using the aerosol.
Thanks,
Doug
I notice that the AutomotiveTouchUp site offers paints in various forms including an aerosol spray can. I assume this would work much better for the under bumper scuffs and was wondering if anyone had luck using the aerosol.
Thanks,
Doug
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Doug: I have the same issue and I purchased the aerosol quartz and clearcoat just for this job. I placed a decent sized order which included touch-up jars of quartz for chips and red for my calipers along with some other prep and finish materials but I have yet to try the rattle cans . I need to remove the bumper and repair it before painting it so it will probably wait until fall. Based on my experience so far with the quality of the paint in the jars, combined with the proper blending and finishing techniques, I think it will work nicely for the lower front bumper.
Last edited by MarcB; 04-13-2013 at 02:15 AM.
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I've used one a few times on my car, this thread is on my rear wing.
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...-repair-79511/
and on the rear of the car
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...ts-deal-74243/
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...-repair-79511/
and on the rear of the car
https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...ts-deal-74243/
Last edited by RaceDiagnostics; 04-13-2013 at 03:13 PM.
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Doug: I have the same issue and I purchased the aerosol quartz and clearcoat just for this job. I placed a decent sized order which included touch-up jars of quartz for chips and red for my calipers along with some other prep and finish materials but I have yet to try the rattle cans . I need to remove the bumper and repair it before painting it so it will probably wait until fall. Based on my experience so far with the quality of the paint in the jars, combined with the proper blending and finishing techniques, I think it will work nicely for the lower front bumper.
I think I'll take a chance and order some of the aerosol in Quartz and Clearcoat. I won't bother removing the bumper since I don't care about getting "perfect" results for something that cannot easily be seen. It would be useless anyway since it is virtually impossible to avoid the lower bumper scrapes with these cars. The design of the lower bumper really should have incorporated some metal skids or something to avoid scraping up the underside.
Doug