help with touch up paint

[joester]

Hello im new at this but,I have a 94 3000gt vr4, I recently filled a hole (fairly small) I had in the front bumper and looked under my hood and got the paint code from the firewall (w29) went to the mitsubishi dealership ordered the touch up paint (for $5.55) came home and applyed it to the filled hole on the bumper ad it came out silver and not white like the color of my car.Any help greatly aprishiate thanks!!!!!

[95teetee]

since it's pearl white, you actually need 3 stage paint (white, pearl, clear)-it sounds like they gave you the wrong paint...

although the pearl layer by itself would be a silvery-looking paint-is it possible they only gave you one of the three stages?

[joester]

thanks ill give that a try

[JasonY]

Theres two different colors in the W29, the white base and the silvery/grey/blueish pearl, which is just some random ass color they made applied very thinly over the white base.

Getting an accurate touch up paint would be very very hard and u may be better off just using the white base to touch up since you would have to actually spray the touch up in order to get the right effect on the paint.

Jason

[95teetee]

Originally Posted by JasonY

Theres two different colors in the W29, the white base and the silvery/grey/blueish pearl, which is just some random ass color they made applied very thinly over the white base.

Getting an accurate touch up paint would be very very hard and u may be better off just using the white base to touch up since you would have to actually spray the touch up in order to get the right effect on the paint.

Jason

I have a part of a quart of greyish-white paint (some k-car color from a repair I did many years ago) and it works great for touchups...

[VentiQuattro]

Originally Posted by 95teetee

I have a part of a quart of greyish-white paint (some k-car color from a repair I did many years ago) and it works great for touchups...

Do you happen to have the color code for that? Would be an awesome find, i have some touch ups on my bumper, but really dont want to sand down, prime, paint, pearl, and clear my whole bumper to cover a spot the size of quarter

[95teetee]

Originally Posted by VentiQuattro

Do you happen to have the color code for that? Would be an awesome find, i have some touch ups on my bumper, but really dont want to sand down, prime, paint, pearl, and clear my whole bumper to cover a spot the size of quarter

damn took some hunting...

went into the basement, found: a qt. of Plum Crazy (my Duster) a 1/2 qt. of Corvette yellow (my '66 mustang), a pt. of GM silver (no idea) and a qt of some Caramel color (my dad's cordoba I think)

But I finally found it in the closet where all my waxes and such are: it's '86 Dodge Crystal White, the can I have is PPG and the guy that mixed it for me wrote 3712 on it, but I don't know if that's the code or not.

btw, the repairs I have used it for, I'm talking about using a toothpick to fill chips on the front end... anything bigger and I'm sure you wouldn't be happy with the results (I'm sure I wouldn't be, anyway )

[VentiQuattro]

Originally Posted by 95teetee

btw, the repairs I have used it for, I'm talking about using a toothpick to fill chips on the front end... anything bigger and I'm sure you wouldn't be happy with the results (I'm sure I wouldn't be, anyway )

Yea I know, Im just going to respray the whole car eventually. PO was terrible with car care

[VentiQuattro]

Paintscratch.com has w29 in a tricoat touch up paint. Im going to give it a go and let you guys know how it works out

[95teetee]

Originally Posted by VentiQuattro

Paintscratch.com has w29 in a tricoat touch up paint. Im going to give it a go and let you guys know how it works out

I think that's the company I've seen mentioned before, with positive results generally.