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Title: Touch up paint
Post by: Ducati Scotty on August 02, 2010, 05:18:54 pm

Is there touch up paint available for the teal C5?  If not, has someone found a car that's close so I can pick up a bottle at the local auto store?

Scott

Title: Re: Touch up paint
Post by: r80rt on August 02, 2010, 06:11:13 pm

Talk to your dealer, that's where I got my touch up paint.

Title: Re: Touch up paint
Post by: Chris-G5 on August 02, 2010, 08:58:04 pm

or call CMW

Title: Re: Touch up paint
Post by: Ducati Scotty on August 02, 2010, 09:12:41 pm

These solutions are so obvious.  Isn't there some rare '38 Dodge paint that almost matches but is special order and takes forever to get?

I honestly didn't even think of it.  I'm so used to having bikes where the paint from the dealer is $25 for a half ounce and still doesn't match that well.  Oh, and the Monster dark just needed a Sharpie :D

Thanks,
Scott

Title: Re: Touch up paint
Post by: REpozer on August 03, 2010, 05:28:38 am

Can't get any BR Green at CMW. 

Title: Re: Touch up paint
Post by: csbdr on August 03, 2010, 07:09:26 pm

I got the C5 Teal from CMW

Title: Re: Touch up paint
Post by: mbevo1 on August 03, 2010, 07:19:30 pm

Quote from: REpozer on August 03, 2010, 05:28:38 am

Can't get any BR Green at CMW. 

Not in stock??  I got a rattle can and touch-up bottle of BR green (I think they call it velvet green) last winter.. ???

Mike and Stumpy in Michigan

Title: Re: Touch up paint
Post by: REpozer on August 03, 2010, 07:54:57 pm

Quote from: mbevo1 on August 03, 2010, 07:19:30 pm

Not in stock??  I got a rattle can and touch-up bottle of BR green (I think they call it velvet green) last winter.. ???

Mike and Stumpy in Michigan

Tried several times to get some BR Green touch up paint , even waiting for a " back order". Then to be informed that the paint didn't match up. ( after I called back)
Apparently BR Green is made in many different shades from the factory.

At some point I will take my air box down to NAPA and have the computer match some paint for me.

CMW doesn't want to sell BR Green. Unless something has changed.


Other then that I have received stellar service from CMW on the phone. They can't squeeze paint from a turnip though.

Title: Re: Touch up paint
Post by: csbdr on August 04, 2010, 12:34:18 pm

The factory mismatch sounds about right.  I understand thats why they don't colormatch sidecars any more. Paints come out shades different from one time to the next, and don't match the bikes right.

Title: Re: Touch up paint
Post by: Ozinwa on August 09, 2010, 04:29:55 am

Maroon C5 is really close to GM  pn# WA334D
Used on lots of Chevys for several years.

Oz

Title: Re: Touch up paint
Post by: prof_stack on August 12, 2010, 05:54:15 pm

Quote from: Ducati Scotty on August 02, 2010, 09:12:41 pm

...
... Oh, and the Monster dark just needed a Sharpie :D
Thanks, Scott

That's another reason I will probably order the black C5.  Sharpies work!   ;D