Afternoon all,
Which type of touch up paint for stone chips do you recommend?, I have a Gray 2022 Rivoli Performance Line
I’ve never had a great success with bought off the shelf touch ups, not even with a genuine the dealership kit.
So what I do is find a good local body repair shop and have them scan your actual paint on the car and have them mix a pot up up, it’s a great match.
You might pay a little bit more but it’s a far far better outcome.
Then just buy a small fine edge detailing brush and a clear touch up lacquer to go on top.
The body repair shop I use actually give a mixed touch up to all their customers if they’ve had a repair done.
They dont mind mixing up a small pot for other customers who just require a touch up.
Some colours are worse than others to match, red being particularly hard.
You’d think a colour like white should be easy enough but it can be hard to get a close match.
Nothing worse than having a bonnet that’s been touched up, but ends up looking like its been shot .
I like Jactac’ suggestion re; Body shop.
Never thought of that or if anyone would be interested in mixing a teeny batch to be honest.
I had stone chips on the front bumper of my DS4.
Its such a huge area and prone to chipping, and the black undersurface showed through the light colour .
Sadly inevitable in today’s traffic.
With the modern cars design at the front end , I doubt there is a car that hasn’t got stone chips these days!
As mine is pearl crystal I sourced the PSA/ DS touch up pen, waited for a dry day to touch them up… I used a detail brush, not the hard rubbish brush that comes in the pen supplied.
Topped them up over several days, in thin layers to get the depth , then a coat of the supplied laquer.
Of course, I know where they are, so it will never be perfect, but at least the black undersurface no longer draws the eye to it!
My wife can’t tell where they were. so that’s good enough for me ;o)
On previous car, a Peugeot RCZ, I had the front bumper and bonnet wrapped in clear vinyl, you would never of known it was wrapped.
It protected the front end perfectly.
When I came to selling the car I just removed it using warm air from an hairdryer, not a single chip.
The body shop I use, will mix up a minimum quantity, not sure the exact amount but it’s more than a touch up pen.
It comes in a small jar with a screw on lid, no brush, but any fine detailing brush will do, I get them off ebay.
If I can recall, the paint was about £15, but you would pay close to that for a touch up pen.
A lot of car manufacturers use the same colour paints and codes but use a different name for their colour, so a decent body shop would have all the correct colours on their shelves for the code.
My wife’s Renault Capture has just had a wing painted because the original lacquer had started to break down on a small area.
The car is a 2016 model so the original paint would of faded slightly compared to new paint of the same code, so the body shop used a Toyota colour for a perfect match.
They scan the original colour and it brings up a colour match.
When we went to collect the car the guy showed us two samples, one was the original Renault code that in theory should of been used, but was very far out to the paint on the car, the other was the Toyota colour which blended in perfectly.
That’s why I think it’s best to use a body shop to scan your car and have them mix up a colour to match, doesnt matter if the finished touch up is from a code of a different manufacturer.
In some instances you might find theres no code that will match , but the scanner will still give the body shop the correct colours to mix to get a match to the paint on the car.
Some good tips / advice there Jactac.
I like the wrapping suggestion too ! 
Thanks for the tip