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touch-up paint too light

Discussion in 'Gen 2 Prius Main Forum' started by terry2336, Oct 22, 2009.

  1. terry2336

    terry2336 Junior Member

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    Trying to clean up a couple of scratches on hood of my 2005 package 4 Driftwood Pearl. Buffed them out so only a bit of light primer was showing in bottom of scratch. when I applied touch up paint I got from dealer it was much lighter than the car's finish
    stands out like a sore thumb. I'm going to have to carefully sand this off.
    Is there a better source of touch up paint that matches better?
    PS: A friend painted the touch up on before I could use the toothpick method-used too much.
     
    #1 terry2336, Oct 22, 2009
  2. paprius4030

    paprius4030 My first Prius

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    Somebody told me and it seems to work , that if you let the first coat dry and do it again it will match better.
     
    #2 paprius4030, Oct 22, 2009
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