Montego Blue Touch up
10-03-06, 10:26 AM
#1
Full Member
Thread Starter
iTrader: (3)
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 168
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Montego Blue Touch up
Ok I just bought a beautiful 93 Montego Blue Touring FD appears to have been garaged its whole life or repainted because the paint is fabulous for the cars age. I did a stupid thing yesterday when I went to a typical self serve car wash. I hit the side of my door with the tip of the sprayer and took about a 3/4 inch long 1/4 inch wide piece of paint down to the primer along with a much longer thin scratch. AAAARRRRGGGGHH. How could I do that to my own car. I need suggestion on touch up or get the area resprayed. Does anyone have experience with this in this color. If respray is the option I need some Nor Cal suggestions on a good choice of paint shop. Please don't flame me for being a newbie or an idiot for scratching up my own car. I am upset at myself enough for everyone.
10-03-06, 10:41 AM
#2
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2005
Location: above ground
Posts: 627
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I've touched up my MB alot, but i'm not going to kid myself, it needs a respray -- previous owner ate alot of rocks on the front end.
I'm not going to lie to you, the MB seems nearly impossible to match right with touch up, maybey i suck, i don't know -- but it's not worth it to respray. The spots where i'd touched up, are hard to find unless under intense direct sunlight and they appear alot more green than the surrouding paint.
I bought a handful of the touch up paint bottles from mazda (i wasn't down to primer, so i didn't need to reprime my chips). They're some kind of single stage goo that doesn't flow quite right, but anyway. Here is what i did.
1) crazy glued some 1500 sand paper to the eraser ends of pencils (use a single hole punch on the paper)
2) let those sit ovenight.
3) dipped them in water the next day and "erased" around the edges of my chips to level them off
3) prepsolved the chips
4) put some mb paint in a cup, dipped a toothpick in the cup, and applied it that way.
5) let it sit overnight, block sanded with 2000 grit paper to level the scratch, used rubbing compound on that, then porter cabled out the last scratches with a poorboys swirl buster 2.5, then 1.0, then waxed.
If you're down to metal, you'll need to add a stage with primer and toothpick before paint and toothpick, but you get the drift.
Some things to note -- all the scratches from the 2000 grit paper didn't come out as well as i'd liked -- i think i need a better/more aggressive cutting compound. the SSR 2.5 didn't seem strong enough, and the rubbing compound, because i applied it by hand, wasn't even enough to get the wetsand scratches out.
I'm not going to lie to you, the MB seems nearly impossible to match right with touch up, maybey i suck, i don't know -- but it's not worth it to respray. The spots where i'd touched up, are hard to find unless under intense direct sunlight and they appear alot more green than the surrouding paint.
I bought a handful of the touch up paint bottles from mazda (i wasn't down to primer, so i didn't need to reprime my chips). They're some kind of single stage goo that doesn't flow quite right, but anyway. Here is what i did.
1) crazy glued some 1500 sand paper to the eraser ends of pencils (use a single hole punch on the paper)
2) let those sit ovenight.
3) dipped them in water the next day and "erased" around the edges of my chips to level them off
3) prepsolved the chips
4) put some mb paint in a cup, dipped a toothpick in the cup, and applied it that way.
5) let it sit overnight, block sanded with 2000 grit paper to level the scratch, used rubbing compound on that, then porter cabled out the last scratches with a poorboys swirl buster 2.5, then 1.0, then waxed.
If you're down to metal, you'll need to add a stage with primer and toothpick before paint and toothpick, but you get the drift.
Some things to note -- all the scratches from the 2000 grit paper didn't come out as well as i'd liked -- i think i need a better/more aggressive cutting compound. the SSR 2.5 didn't seem strong enough, and the rubbing compound, because i applied it by hand, wasn't even enough to get the wetsand scratches out.
10-03-06, 03:24 PM
#3
Full Member
Thread Starter
iTrader: (3)
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Denver, CO
Posts: 168
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
OK so thats what Mazda offers. Is the original paint a basecoat/clearcoat? It appears to be. Has anyone used any of the custom mixed spray basecoat/clearcoat touchup paint or know how to spot spray and blend? I have painting experience but not all of the tools i.e. Air compressor and I have never tried to blend with original paint. It seems some good sanding followed by spray priming layers to fill the depression and layers of masked off spray along with basecoat then sanding followed by clearcoat and more sanding should blend better than single stage goo. I only have one scratch in the middle of the driver side door so it is very easy to see when light hits the car. Am I dreaming about the spraying and blending in the middle of the door and have to go with the scratch filler? Maybe just respray the whole door?
10-03-06, 05:34 PM
#4
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2005
Location: above ground
Posts: 627
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I believe that MB is a 2 stage with a very dull basecoat and the shiney comes from the clear coat, or at least according to this thread.
https://www.rx7club.com/interior-exterior-audio-26/%242-900-reasonable-582582/
https://www.rx7club.com/interior-exterior-audio-26/%242-900-reasonable-582582/
