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    Touch-up paint: Where to buy??

    A few stone chips have made their presence known on the fairings of my ZX10R, anyone know where to go for touch up paint?
    Can't be that hard to come by...


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    Try L J Smits Ltd, 243 Archers Road, Glenfield, AUCKLAND, (09) 444 9136
    They'll make summat up that's an exact match.
    Maybe...
    Apparently the VFR's paint is a two-part job, and they couldn't match it exactly (after two experts had a go, and both looked OK to me) so they wouldn't sell it to me.
    So, I touched my paint up with my wife's car paint, which is also blue, only 275 shades different. So instead of the paint being "not quite an exact match", it's now a completely different colour. I may as well have used black, or green.

    Alternatively, try Reflections Motorcycle Painters (also in GField).

    Don't bother with the car or auto stores - already tried them, and no-one has anything remotely like my paint. Apparently car dealers no longer sell touch-up paint - it's more lucrative to run their own touch-up service or whatever.
    ... and that's what I think.

    Or summat.


    Or maybe not...

    Dunno really....


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    Autopaint.
    $35- for matched paint & put into a spraycan.

    Good stuff!
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    Quote Originally Posted by nodrog View Post
    matt bleck spray cans are only $4 each at supercheap bro, just point and shoot
    It would happen to be the lime bleedin' green tho wouldn't it eh!
    Thanx guys for all your precious advice, I'll do the ring around and check them all out


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    Go to a reputable auto painter, they should be able to make touch up paint in the colour you want.
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    Sounded like you just wanted a touch up pot rather than a respray - maybe I got it wrong.

    If you just want to touch up the stone chips then nail polish is an option

    Places like repco, supercheap .. have the car make pots/pens of paint but arent cheap

    If you get some paint mixed up, get enough for what you need now and no more, if you save some it will be a different colour when you go to use it as your panels would of faded
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    Tamiya paints worth a try

    You could try Tamiya paints from a Model shop. If you are just wanting to fill in some stone chips I have used Tamiya model paint carefully applied sparingly with a sharp toothpick so that it just fills in the chipped paint hole. The Tamiya range generally have a colour close enough to match most shades, might be a bit of trial and error to get the correct colour but I have had moderate sucess with this (with red colours anyway).
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    theres a place in onehunga called colourworks it's brilliant they matched some though up paint for my xr8 and the match was identical good thing is they use ppg colour systems which is a great scheme

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    20 bucks for a bottle and it has a wee brush built into the lid!!

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