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Afternoon all, I'm looking for some advice on obtaining touch up paint for a VW.
I've found these guys online which look good however they don't give confirmation of the colour when you enter the reg. In fact, you can enter any reg you like, not just VW ones, and paint gets added to the cart.
I need to paint some chips which are down to the bare metal, not a full panel respray.
Ta in advance.
What colour - some are extremely difficult to match into epsically the silvers. Check your colour code in the vehicle book rather than just going oh Its reflex silver etc.
The touch up paints from MAD are good, and they come as an easy to use kit. Ive used them before, OEM sticks and the halfords ones, all blend the paint but none get it perfect.
Agree with @nickdavies here, check the paint code not just the colour name, when it arrives test it on a really inconspicuous area (like the inner lip of the arches or anything which is body coloured by not often seen).
If you're happy with the match then go onto the chips and just take it easy with the thickness - better to do multiple coats than to blob it on and have it too thick and therefore darker than the rest.
Don't forget the body is painted under the bonnet, so if you need an inconspicuous area to practice on it's as good as any.
LH1X/Mojave Beige* not listed on MAD but it is on the Chipex site
(*I'd call it gold/silver depending on how the light catches it.)
I just buy it from the main dealer, might be a bit more expensive but I've had mine since 2013 (however it does help that I've had two consecutive cars in the same colour),
Chipex is pretty good. I’ve some VW I don’t need of yours is white?
I picked up a shitbox Nissan Leaf that had a couple of scratches on the door and front wings. I wasn't going to bother with them but found myself with time on my hands over the summer so took the paint code to Halfords - cheap, easy and I didn't need it perfect - which was a metalic purply red colour.
Paint arrived few few days later and the match was perfect. I am no master car sprayer but I had to check my original phot of the car to tell which door panel had the partial respray. I was stunned on a 2012 paint job.
Long time VW owner here, always use VW International. OEM touch up at a fraction of dealer price. Always use boot sticke code as reference to get correct colour.
If down to bare metal you'll need some primer before the touch up final colour. For small chips I've read a cocktail stick is a good applicator.
Mojave beige on a t6 I’d probably go for an oem paint kit to get as close as possible, it will never match because of the flake etc but you’ll protect the metalwork, and likely look better than a panel paint from most places.
Mine is reflex silver and I’m saving for a full respray at some point, I feel your pain... it’s had paint before and it sticks out like a sore thumb.
Cheers all
I feel your pain… it’s had paint before and it sticks out like a sore thumb.
"Someone", not me, made a balls up of lowering the blind on the sliding door. Instead of it rolling back into the recess in the door skin they left it half out and drooping down the door inside the van.
When I opened the door today from the outside, not noticing the above, the door didn't open as smoothly a normal. I closed it again and noticed the nice scratch all along the side of the van left by the blind.
Fortunately the scratch isn't that bad, its just on the very edge of the panel where the paint has been removed down to the metal.
I've ordered an OEM paint kit.
If its something like - T5/T6 or A caddy it might be worth finding a Facebook owners group and asking there. I remember reading once there was A better matched alternative to vw silver, could have possibly been Skoda but, can't remember for certain