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What touch-up paint actually is

Touch-up paint is a small quantity of your car's exact factory color, mixed to the paint code on your vehicle and supplied in a 2oz bottle with a brush built into the cap. It's made for stone chips, small scratches and the odd car-park scuff — damage too small to justify spraying a panel, but too deep to polish out.

The colour is the part that matters. "Black" isn't a colour — BMW alone has dozens of blacks, and a shade that's merely close will show every time the sun hits it. Everything we mix starts from your factory code, which is the same starting point a body shop uses.

Which size do you need?

2oz bottle

Stone chips · small scratches · stone-chip clusters

Brush in the cap. Self-glossing 1K formula — no clearcoat step. The default choice for anything you'd fix with a toothpick.

Aerosol

Bumper corners · mirror caps · trim · long scratches

Anything longer than a few inches. A brush line down a door always reads as a line; spraying and blending doesn't.

Pints, quarts & gallons

Full panels · multi-panel repairs · resprays

Ready to spray, same factory formula. For when the repair has become a project.

Every size is mixed from the same code, so a touch-up bottle today and a gallon next year will match.

How to apply it

  1. Clean the chip. Wash the panel, then wipe the chip and the inch around it with isopropyl alcohol. Wax or road film left in the chip is the single most common reason touch-up fails to stick.
  2. Deal with any rust. Scrape loose rust out with a toothpick tip or fine sandpaper. Paint over rust and it keeps spreading underneath.
  3. Dab thin layers. Dab, don't brush. You're filling a hole, not painting a wall — the first layer should sit below the surrounding surface.
  4. Wait 10–15 minutes between layers. Two or three thin coats beat one thick blob every time. A blob shrinks as it cures and leaves a crater with a ring around it.
  5. Stop when it's level, then leave it. Touch-dry in 15–30 minutes, safe to drive in an hour, fully cured in 24–48 hours. Polish after a few days if you want to blend the edges.

Full walkthrough, including the three mistakes that make chips look worse: How to apply touch-up paint.

Touch-up paint questions

Where do I find my car’s paint code?

Most vehicles carry it on a sticker or plate in the driver’s door jamb or B-pillar. Depending on year and model it can also be in the glovebox, the spare-wheel well, under the bonnet, or in the owner’s manual. It’s a short combination of letters and numbers, usually near the words paint, color or C/TR.

How long does touch-up paint take to dry?

Touch-dry in 15 to 30 minutes, safe to drive within an hour, and fully cured in 24 to 48 hours depending on temperature. Below about 50°F the paint dries slowly and can sag, so work in a garage or wait for a warmer day.

Do I need clearcoat over touch-up paint?

Not with our 1K gloss touch-up — the gloss is built into the formula, so it dries glossy from the bottle and you can polish it directly. Traditional basecoat touch-up does need a clearcoat step on top, which is where most DIY repairs go wrong.

Will touch-up paint be invisible?

From a few feet away, yes. Nose against the panel, a filled chip is still a filled chip. Invisible from any angle needs spraying and blending, which is a much bigger job and rarely worth it for a single chip.

Is a paint pen better than a bottle?

A bottle with a brush gives you far more control for chips, because you can dab thin layers and build up. Pens tend to over-deliver paint and leave a raised blob. For very fine scratches a pen can be tidier, but for stone chips the bottle wins.

How much touch-up paint do I need?

A 2oz bottle covers dozens of stone chips — for most people it is a lifetime supply for one car. Step up to an aerosol when you are covering an area bigger than roughly a credit card, or a quart and above for a full panel.

Can I use touch-up paint on a scratch, or only chips?

Both, as long as the damage is deeper than the clearcoat. Run a fingernail across it: if the nail catches, paint is the right fix. If it glides over, that is a clearcoat scuff and polish will remove it — paint on top of a scuff makes it worse.

Does touch-up paint work on faded or older paint?

It matches the colour your car left the factory with, which is what the code specifies. On a panel that has faded in the sun, a perfect code match can still look slightly fresh against the old paint — that is why professionals blend into the surrounding area rather than filling the chip alone.

How is this different from a parts-store universal touch-up?

A parts-store universal tube is one approximate shade covering hundreds of different cars. Ours is mixed to order from your specific factory code, from the same formula the manufacturer used. On solid dark colours a universal might pass at a distance; on metallics and pearls it will not.

Chips & scratches · 2oz Touch-Up

Why our 2oz touch-up is 1K gloss

Every touch-up bottle is mixed fresh to your exact factory paint code — the same OEM color library as our aerosols and ready-to-spray gallons, in a 2oz bottle made for stone chips and scratches.

  • Dries glossy straight from the bottle Self-glossing 1K formula. No clearcoat step, ever.
  • Built-in brush applicator Dab, level, done — made for chips and scratches.
  • Same color, every size Start with touch-up; aerosols and gallons match exactly for bigger repairs.
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Filling a stone chip with the Luna 2oz touch-up brush

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