Do touch-up paint pens really work?

[TarekElsakka]

I saw them at the dealership a couple of days ago and they're actually not very expensive here. I have a couple of small nifts and scratches on my car from parking and touching the side walk, for instance, or accidentally scratching the side walk while opening the doors.

I might take a couple of pictures of the scratches I am talking about today in order to determine whether or not touch-up paint pens would be effective. My car is silver so it's VERY prone to small scratches that are dark and visible when you look at them.

And by the way, when you use touch-up paint pens and you decide to sell the car later on, would the dealership recognise they've been used when they're fully-checking on the car? I wouldn't want the buyer to think I had an accident and sprayed the paint or something.

Thanks guys.

 

[/dev/null]

They work ok for small chips but anything more and you're best getting it done professionally. If you're part ex-ing then I doubt the dealers would even look that close. They're making enough cash on the part-ex to not be too bothered.

 

[TarekElsakka]

They work ok for small chips but anything more and you're best getting it done professionally. If you're part ex-ing then I doubt the dealers would even look that close. They're making enough cash on the part-ex to not be too bothered.

Thank you for your reply. I'm sorry but what does "part-ex" mean? Do you mean selling it to the dealership itself or exchanging it with a newer model and paying the difference? What I meant is that usually in Egypt when you want to sell a used car, the potential-buyer asks you to go have a full, deep check-up done on the car, both exterior, interior, and mechanical wise and giving him the report when it's done. I was going to buy a used BMW 1-series before I got the Leon and it took the dealership about 5 friggin hours to fully-check up on the car and came back with a HUGE 8-paper report about the history, condition, etc. of the car and whether it's been spray painted before or anything.

 

[Subc]

I find touch the Emocian Red and Candy white pens I have a very good match the brushes are useless. Buy a fine artists brush and clean out the chips first with ipa a doddle to get near invisible repairs if you build up slowly.

 

[cheungy]

My "Skoda Black Magic Pen" Works find on my Leon...

Mostly for the front end of the car though

 

[Adman77]

I find touch the Emocian Red and Candy white pens I have a very good match the brushes are useless. Buy a fine artists brush and clean out the chips first with ipa a doddle to get near invisible repairs if you build up slowly.

Where did you get the red one from geez?

 

[alesi27]

As my other hobby is model making I have plenty small artists brushes, but I also have an airbrush (a small spray gun). I used this with great success recently, followed by a rub over with a polishing compound (again from the model bench) followed by a coat of super resin polish.

Touch up paint from dealers is good but agree the brush supplied is too big.

 

[Nath.]

Yes, the brush is poop, I use a coctail stick to apply touchup paint to chips. As said build it up over a few days then T Cut back flat and apply wax.

 

[Jarre]

Yes, the brush is poop, I use a coctail stick to apply touchup paint to chips. As said build it up over a few days then T Cut back flat and apply wax.

Think i'll have to try this! Got loads of blobs everywhere now, and tried to T cut today, made no difference Maybe the t cut is out of date lol