Tips to Fix Car Scratch with Touch Up Paint

A victim of car scratch & yet confused enough on how to handle the scratch easily keeping budget & time in mind? A definite choice is to go for touch-up paints available as home- finishing products. Entire procedure is described below on how to take care of the scratches using the touch-up paint.

Required materials:- 

All you will need is a good quality touch-up paint matching to the colour of your vehicle, a primer (if the scratch is too deep) helps the paint to hold longer on the surface, a rust dabber coating that helps in preventing further rusting under the applied paint, pieces of soft cloth (terry or micro-fibre cloth) for cleaning & polishing purpose & protective tapes & gloves just to be safe from the chemical side-effects on skin.

Process:-

1. Clean & dry the area. Yes if required you can use a bit of polishing material to clean the surface in a better way.
2. Check if the depth of colour dig is more. If yes then apply a bit of rust-repeller for keeping future rusting.
3. For cleaning the area, use sand paper (not too rough) for sanding the area so that the primer sticks & makes grip to the paint.
4. Thin brush can be used to apply primer & let it dry.
5. Mix the auto paint in the touch-up bottle so that the liquid is not much thicker. If thick paint is used, it will stay as a layer & will show up.
6. Wax & polish the area to get the exact glow and finishing later. It enhances shine & lasts longer.

Using the touch-up paint pen:-

It is simple to use as there is no confusion of colour matching & primer application & sanding works. If the scratch is fresh (old scratches must be checked for rusting) & no rusting has occurred then follow these steps:-

1. Clean the surface with soap water/ foam to wipe of the dirt. Alcohol can be used to get best results. Make sure the cloth to be used is soft enough so that it doesn’t make any further scratches due to the dirt present already.
2. Make sure the pen you are going to use is UV protected. If not then you must avoid those cheap products available in the market.
3. Apply the pen gently on the scratch which will accumulate the colour from its surrounding & will coat the area finely.
4. Let in dry for 5 minutes & it is done.