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sportsman_500's avatar
Apr 19, 2021

Touch Up Paint

I suffered a pretty good scratch on the side of our Raptor 398TS with full body paint. A quick internet search did not come up with much. Anyone here have any insight? I have heard Keystone was not to great on providing color codes.
  • FaridElsion wrote:
    To paint your car, you need to waste good amount of money, especially if you want to look of it to be normal. I know that people are not able to do that due to really huge cost of it and their cars are just looking awful due to bad color and I want to admit that you don’t want to paint your car in cheap paint you will just destroy everything. When I have done that, I already got a lot of money to be sure that I will pay for everything.


    The old thread was bumped by this spammer. He's gone now though.
  • A pro mixing paint can do better than using a color specification. The problem is as the paint ages in the sun, the color will change and the official color no longer matches perfectly.
  • Nv_Guy's avatar
    Nv_Guy
    Explorer III
    As previously mentioned a good body shop or paintless repair service should be able to match and blend the paint.
  • To paint your car, you need to waste good amount of money, especially if you want to look of it to be normal. I know that people are not able to do that due to really huge cost of it and their cars are just looking awful due to bad color and I want to admit that you don’t want to paint your car in cheap paint you will just destroy everything. When I have done that, I already got a lot of money to be sure that I will pay for everything.
  • There are auto detailing shops that do micro touch up , mixing the paint on the spot and airbrushing the damaged areas. It's often the same folks that do paintless dent repair, you may want to check your area for one.