Best way of applying Touch Up paint

[alx_chung]

Hey All,

After a week of my new Leon, I have found a scratch on the driver side door. Its about 2" long and you can see it in a certain light. I know its there and if I don't do anything about it I will go nuts
So I was wondering since its a fine scratch (not deep at all) what was the best way to touch up the paint?
Any ideas or help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Alex

 

[Barker1977]

The prblem with touch ups is they will leave a trail even more noticeable than the scratch. Try using a colour renovation wax, turtle wax do them i think. It will do a better job on a small scratch than a touch up.

Something like this product:
http://www.turtlewax.com/main.taf?p=2,1,4,6

 

[Ninja]

are you sure its a proper scratch ? I wouldnt use the touch ups if you can avoid it.. Maybe a tiny bit of the coloured t cut polished in ?

 

[BJM]

Megs scratch X from Halfords mate - great stuff, will either make is disappear or significantly reduce it.

 

[alx_chung]

Thanks for the help guys, I am going to get the car detailed in a couple of weeks times so will see if it can be polished out or buffed out then. If so I will just have the touch up stick pen as back up.
Alex

 

[OFI]

This applies to deeper scratches/chips really but after much searching I eventually found the page I was looking for.

http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=20127&highlight=scratch+repair

I've not seen anyone ever use a touch-up pen before and make it look any good but the guy on that site seems to be capable!

The Cupra I have just bought has 3 marks down one side from a key so i'm looking at ways to get it fixed without obviously going down the route of a respray.

 

[cuprakel]

Megs scratch X from Halfords mate - great stuff, will either make is disappear or significantly reduce it.

^^^ yeah id try this rather than t-cut or anything like that. it requires a lot of elbow grease but it will definately do as BJM says.