Titanium Grey metallic touch up paint
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Anyone else out there with this color of 8 notice that the Mazda titanium touch up paint (code # 66) does not even come close to matching the cars color?? I have had 2 bottles of it and they were BOTH wayyyyyyyyyy too light. More like the silver color 8.
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I had a paint job done at the dealer after they hit my car. This was meant ot be a professional job, the paint didnt match the guy never tone matched it. Interesting that the touchup paint doesnt match either.
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Originally Posted by fray
They gave me touchup paint number 68.. I wonder if they screwed up and gave me the wrong one. (It's definatly too light.)
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Originally Posted by Razz1
Your suppose to put a base coat of primer on it too.
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It's my experience that dark metallic colored touch up paint always is not quite the same color in the first couple of coats - the best way to manage this is to buy a super-fine-pointed paint brush, then before doing the chip, use the corner of some fine sand paper to rough up the edges of the nick. Then start filling it - one layer at a time, one tiny droplet of paint at a time. A chip the size of a pencil lead may take 4 or 5 coats to fill in properly to where it's difficult to see. Note though, you'll never get it to look like the factory paint - it will always be a little bump there.
The LY touchup works quite well, actually.
The LY touchup works quite well, actually.
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Your going to think this is ghetto, but what i did for a rock chip on the lip.. was i used a silver sharpie first, then i got the paint and filled it in... i also was comming up light in the paint, so i quickly whipped it off, and got the sharpie that was silver. maked it very carefully, and painted over the sharpie... made it darker.. and i put 2 coats of paint on... ill post some pics so u can see...
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Same problem here. First off though, 68 is for Sunlight Silver. That's what I got to touch up the front but it's actually even lighter than the paint on my silver 8. Not sure what Mazda's doing wrong with the touch up paints?!
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Originally Posted by RX8rider
Same problem here. First off though, 68 is for Sunlight Silver. That's what I got to touch up the front but it's actually even lighter than the paint on my silver 8. Not sure what Mazda's doing wrong with the touch up paints?!
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Or you could just live with the scratches since the Titanium paint hides minor blemishes really well...unless they're very noticeable in which case I'd find a used part of whatever is damaged from someone on here who is selling it.
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i usuall make it a point to not use touch up paint. Never comes out good.
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If the touch-up paints are all showing up too light on the cars...I wonder if the new Galaxy Gray touch up paint would work better on the Titanium gray cars? I also have a Titanium gray in need of a touch up or two. If anyone tries the Galaxy gray on it let us know.
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