Ever triied to use the Honad-Acura touch up paint to fix a chip?

Ever make a mess worse then the chip?

I tried a new way of doing this last week on the TSX.
Instead of using the POS bottle brush; I got a very small model car brush from a hobby shop. This works awesome!

I had 2 small chips on the rear bumper....the touch up went so well the wife couldn't find them and she knew about where they were.

The brush can sometimes get ruined by the auto paint drying, but I get the brushes at a hobby shop for 3 bucks. I figure this is a cheap inexpense way to hit a bunch of nasty chips in one day and make them go away....and not look like crap.

 

How do you get the paint from the pen to the model brush?

 

I think he's using the bottles not the pen...

 

Ah...

 

Correct, I just use the bottle of Honda-Acura paint you can get at the dealer.
It works the best IMO for paint color match vs. autoparts store.

 

I use the pen, which is cool. It has a paint side and a clear coat side.

 

the pen works better on SSM....at least for me..

 

Wow, you guys are really just making my OCD problem and the whole brush discovery less cool.

 

 

May you dream of brushes and pens and paint chips.

 

I think I have to give something like the above a try on my SSM ... I have some ugly scrapes on my rear bumped and a nice deep chip on the hood that I would like to make go away

The other thing that I heard works well is a toothpick ...

 

The toothpick sucks, learned that on the Accord. The brush is the answer to the toothpick.

 

cool ... I will have to give it a try ...

So with the Acura paint ... how is the clearcoat part done?

 

I think it's single stage only [Acrylic type I think], but it's just a chip so I don't think it matters much.
I like it because, 1 it's Honda OE and 2 some dealers give it our free.

 

yep - I plan to ask for a free little bottle of it ... then it's off to the hobby store to try to cover up some uglies. The ones on my bumped just bum me out every time I see them ... time for some fix up

 

yeah...I found out a toothpick doesn't work that great... at least for me...

 

I found this worked awesome on our bumper. We had the 2 big chips that the wife can't even find now.

 

The pen has two sides, paint and clearcoat.

 

I have used clear nail polish after applying the touch up paint from the bottle with a brush and gotten good results