Touch up paint

Just an update to this. I managed to get paint from Tailored Paints on Amazon delivered last Thursday.
I used a UK registration number to get the colour matched. Cost was eur 25 all in, including delivery and customs (no prime delivery on these).
Paint seems to be correct but weather was so bad this weekend and my car is so filthy after driving back roads all week that I'm going to have to wait until next weekend to try it out.
The paint comes in two bottles, undercoat and top coat and includes a few applicators and gloves in the set.
Hopefully next weekend is dryer.
Just an update to the above. Finally had some dry weather this month.
Paint was a disaster, it's way too runny and dries up on the brush too fast. It doesn't adhere easily too metal either. Just taking the lid off results in large pools of paint to drop out as well.

I did manage to get some touch up done using the tip of a tooth pick to put the paint on by dipping the pick into some of the paint pools on a card I held the bottle over when opening. It doesn't look great but at least something is over the metal. I think this paint is only suitable maybe for large areas of damage and on plastic parts like the bumpers. Stone chips definitely not.

I'm going to complain to the seller.
 
Just an update to the above. Finally had some dry weather this month.
Paint was a disaster, it's way too runny and dries up on the brush too fast. It doesn't adhere easily too metal either. Just taking the lid off results in large pools of paint to drop out as well.

I did manage to get some touch up done using the tip of a tooth pick to put the paint on by dipping the pick into some of the paint pools on a card I held the bottle over when opening. It doesn't look great but at least something is over the metal. I think this paint is only suitable maybe for large areas of damage and on plastic parts like the bumpers. Stone chips definitely not.

I'm going to complain to the seller.
Just a follow up on the paint. I contacted the seller and they think it may have been possibly a defective batch.
They sent me out a replacement set of paint FOC. Hopefully the new paint will be better. Colour match was good, so if consistency is right this time round, this could be a great touch up option.
Hope to have the new paint in a few days.
 
Just a follow up on the paint. I contacted the seller and they think it may have been possibly a defective batch.
They sent me out a replacement set of paint FOC. Hopefully the new paint will be better. Colour match was good, so if consistency is right this time round, this could be a great touch up option.
Hope to have the new paint in a few days.
Got the replacement paint last week. Consistency is better, but still a bit runny and the brush supplied is a little too big. I did manage to cover some of the chips but they don't look great.
Never experienced so much difficulty in over 30 years to touch up a few stone chips on a car and it's the first car company I've ever come across that doesn't supply paint touch up kits.
 

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