Touch Up Paint Techniques

Pete,

You betcha.' Check out this site. Their product is great. You can do a search for "Langka" and see the impressions.

http://www.langka.com/index.cfm?page=howitworks.cfm#5minute

Hope this helps.

Dane

 

I used the Langka and it is good. Read about the way paint shops use it. Overfill the chip so that the Langka can take it down to be flush with the existing surface. Also, use a fine artists brush (the langka kit comes with one). Langka is around $25 and will probably last you about four lifetimes.
BT

 

For anyone else thinking about it, if you use THIS LINK to go to their site and later make a purchase, they'll make a donation to the Ferrari Club.

 

OK--Sounds good--where can I get the touch up paint???

 

Went to the website from the above link---just order the Complete paint touch up kit--$39.95---This is what I would need for chips???

 

Either your dealer, or www.PaintScratch.com -- but many people find that one of the touch up bottles at your local Autozone or Advance Auto from a Nissan or Toyota match the basic Ferrari red on older cars amazingly well.

 

Painscratch is the most recommended source on this site for the paint. Langka is a selective thinner that removes the excess 'blob' of paint that happen when you do a touch up. I can tell the difference in the paint color form the original to the paintscratch color code match. I don't know any other way to match the paint any better though.
BT

 

Is the paint you guys are using different than mine?

I go to the auto paint shop and they mix me up some, but because it's base coat-clear coat it has no gloss after. I had a fantastic repair going with the Lanka process, but couldn't get a smooth clear over top. I got another touchup kit with clear in it (lacquer), used it, and the Lanka lotion couldn't get it off.

Comments?

Wes

 

For paint chip repair, it is MUCH easier to use a single-stage touch-up paint instead of a 2-stage (flat+clear), and provides much better results. If you've got a red car, you'll find an almost perfect match, even considering fading, by going to a place like Autozone or Advance Auto and picking up a Nissan or Toyota or Ford red. Take your car, or a painted piece with you (like a headlight cover off a 308/328 -- only 4 screws to get it off) and match the closest you can find. After Lanka, the chip repair final result will be virtually invisible unless you already know it's there and are looking for it.

 

Alright--Just ordered the kit from Lanka and the paint from Paintscratch --I will do some before and after pics when I get it done!!!

 

Where I live those stores don't exist, but I've got the idea...thanks!

Wes

 

I overfill the chip with paint and use blue "painters" tape to envelop the chip thus protecting the surrounding paint from the langka then after dry a fine film of clear coat and if too much clear coat use the langka to smooth out then I polish area.Comes out really good.

 

The touch up pint in the common repair bottles is a lacquer paint. Lanka is designed to soften lacquer paint.

"Real" paint, as you got from the auto body supply shop is an acrylic paint.
The solvents that remove lacquer will not remove acrylic paint.

 

I just tried Paint Scratch touch up and it works great....the applicator is not a brush but is like a wick....works better than a brush IMHO

 

Yea, I would be worried with an 89, bc there is no clear coat with the factory finish, is there? (none on my 91)

I have read of using G2 brake caliper paint, with an artists brush, supposedly, it hardens better than typical touch up paint.

 

I buy the oem paint from local store and mix it myself. If its just a chip, get this 'use your finger', its what most pros I have talked to do. Just put on a couple light coats. You need the paint to build anyway. Paint should set you back $50. Cover the area with green painters tape $9 a roll and paper. If its a larger area, I fill it in and respray it with the devilbiss or sata gun. Just remember, most people wont' even notice it, only you will. As long as your happy with it, your golden.

 

I have an 87 328 (Black) that has been repainted and have had no problems. It's not so much a solvent that you're using, but a lotion really. It's very mild and I don't think you should worry.

Wes

 

It says on their site, will not harm "clearcoat" finish. FWIW

 

http://bluelightning.zoovy.com/product/TOUCHUP

 

Has anyone tried this product? How does it compare with Langke? I just got a response from Langke saying that it doesn't matter what kind of paint you have (lacquer, acrylic, urethane), it will work.

 

Just did some touch up last night and am about to go and try the langka now.
Will post my thoughts in a couple of hours.
By the way car is yellow and I got the touch up paint from paint scratch.

Russell