blubs

Hi All,

I have a few scratches on the family car and have just bought a touch up 'kit' from VW.

It comprises of the base colour paint and a bottle of laquer. Any advice on the best process. Is it just a case of applying the paint, wait to dry, polish and laquer?

Or is there a set way to do this to get the best results?

Ta

blubs

BOB.T

Hi

The first thing I'd do is polish the whole area with a cutting polish (T-cut), not a wax. Then after making sure the scratch is clean, put a few light coats of colour on. The colour won't shine by itself so there's no point polishing it. Let it go off and then lacquer it, aim to have to finished layer slightly proud of the original paint. After it's completely gone off, after a day at least, T-cut it all and the new paint should end level or thereabouts and shouldn't be that obvious

Take your time with it, keep the new paint in the scratch rather than just gloshing it on all over and you should be fine!

Good luck, post some pics up!

blubs

Bob,

Cheers, u r the man

I'll have a go, and if it's good I'll post the pics up

It looks like some toe rag has done a nice concentric circle on the boot with a key. Not a big area - (size of a dinner plate), but worth spending some time on.

Thanks again.

sarasquares

iTrader: (1)

i could do with one of those paint kits for mine. ive scraped a fiberglass part. how do i go about getting the right colour?