Can They Do Anything Right?

[Guest GarthyB]

My question....and this is open for all to comment......Why, can Citroen, with all it's might, find it impossible to generate a good quality match for the paint chip sticks??

I had a stone chip on the drivers door of my C4 (Iron Grey), got the chip stick out....gave it a good shake...and proceeded to apply a small amount of paint to the damaged area.

 

I may as well have chucked some lime green paint across the door!! :angry:

The paint is about 4 shades too dark...it now sticks out like a sore thumb...well done Citroen!! Muppets.

 

Two words....Research.....Development.. take a panel sprayed in the colour.....chip and scratch it....test various shades of the colour until a suitable match is found that actually passes for a reasonable match!!! :) :lol: Can it really be that difficult??

 

There you go Citroen can I have a job...you clearly need someone with my qualities and most importantly, a clue!!

 

Or is just easier to charge £8 a throw for a paint stick set and refuse a refund because the box has been opened. :angry: ;)

[wozza]

They did come and match it to your batch didnt they?

 

As iron grey has various shades depending on batches so maybe you got a wrong batch? Or an incorrectly labeled one etc. Although in my experience 9 times out of 10 touch up sticks are useless.

[Guest GarthyB]

They did come and match it to your batch didnt they?

 

As iron grey has various shades depending on batches so maybe you got a wrong batch? Or an incorrectly labeled one etc. Although in my experience 9 times out of 10 touch up sticks are useless.

 

They had the car in the workshop when then ordered the touch up!! Are you saying they could have matched the batch!!??

 

Still at least it was free, albeit not entirely the best colour match. I'm thinking of adding a little Picasso silver and Iron Grey together to lighten up the shade a little....as the saying goes...couldn't get any worse... :)

[wozza]

Well the colour of one car is never exactly the same as another car. So things do get messed up a bit. My old cinquecento was a complete bugger to get a match on due to how many shades of broom yellow there were. Gave up in the end.

[ham's c4vts]

try this website with tips on how to reduce/repair stone chips.

 

http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/show...ght=stone+chips

 

just have a good serch

[72dudes]

I recently had a similar problem with my C5 Touch Up. Mine is Hurricane Grey and the Touch Up (right code etc) seemed more like the Storm Grey (much darker). I took it back and they swapped it for another - this was slightly better but still not a good match. The Parts guy seemed to think this was quite normal. I'm going to mix it with some Halfords generic Aluminium Silver!!

[72dudes]

.......................... and it worked. Great colour match now!

[iannez]

the paint is supposed to be sprayed thin over a light coloured primer so thats why it goes on so dark. dont think they allow for this with touch up

[Mike5483]

the paint is supposed to be sprayed thin over a light coloured primer so thats why it goes on so dark. dont think they allow for this with touch up

 

The best way I found of touching paint up is to ensure that the scratch is clean, with no debris, then using a pin, put a small blob at one end, then 'drag' it along with a damp tissue or wet finger etc.

 

Allow to dry then repeat. It builds layers up slowly and once just below the level of the finished surface, add a couple of layers of laquer til its just proud. Then, once fully dry (allow a week of so), lightly cut back with some AG SRP.

 

Seems to work ok, you'll never get a perfect match anyway, as a properly repaired scratch is featherd in to the surrounding paint so it blends.

[Goon]

Was told by a Chips-away guy that touch up pens are like sticking sellotape onto clingfilm. Just doesn't work. Have yet to see a truly good touch in that can't be easily seen.