BUY IT NOWīased in Southern California for 6 years, TouchupDirect offers a variety of touch up paint products featuring waterborne basecoat and solventborne primer and clearcoats with low VOC. ScratchesHappen is also the only USA kit company with an applicator kit of different brushes, dabbers and toothpicks – the brush in the jar is pretty low tech by comparison. They are the only company to offer a full waterborne system of primer, basecoat, and clearcoat. INNOVATION: The only company to offer OEM color matched primer (instead of just grey primer) – validating their OEM basecoat color match guarantee. INSTRUCTIONS: Instructions (in a readable type size) to help you do the best job possible are clear and sequential. Once you select your car paint, choosing between kits is intuitive and informative with images of the contents of each kit side by side for comparison. Just recently the ability to buy a single bottle or aerosol can (without buying a kit) was added to the site.ĬHECKOUT: Scratches Happen is no nonsense, low hype, with a smooth and efficient user experience. There are three kit options for bottles or aerosols, ranging from Essential, Preferred and Complete. The company believes paint pens are a poor application format, due to tips that dry out, and paint that doesn’t flow well after the first use. PRODUCT RANGE: Includes small bottles of touch up paint and aerosol products, but no pens. Also for bottles, Scratches Happen is the only touch up paint to color match their primer – claiming the exact color match formula relies on tinted primer as part of the OEM color process.ĬOLOR SELECTION:One of the only kits with almost all of the 2020 model year colors on the site. THE PRODUCT: Of all the companies in this roundup, only Scratches Happen has a totally waterborne paint system, primer, base, and clear (for bottles). Website photos of gorgeous classic American automobiles – and their injured finishes in need of repair, add a timeless quality to this new but serious player in the field. Vibe: The friendly, smart website channels a re-invigorated American manufacturing profile – a facility in the heartland that operates on solar power – positively contributing to the community. We will review aerosols in our next article.Īs the latest (and only Made in the USA) entry into the automotive touch up paint market, Scratches Happen applies all the latest breakthroughs in paint performance and low VOC with a completely waterborne paint system (primer, base, and clear). However, if you happen to have a car in one of those popular colors this is an option, and you can find them on Amazon.ĪEROSOL NOTE: It is safe to assume that aerosol offerings from these companies will offer the same color match, however, we recommend that you buy a jar of touch up paint first to confirm the color match, before buying an aerosol. We did not include those companies in this review. These brands are primarily sold in retail, such as Pep Boys, AutoZone, etc. Note: There are some other established brands (such as Duplicolor, a Sherwin Williams company) that have been selling touch up paint for a long time, however they only sell a few hundred popular colors (think Ford Tuxedo Black), and they don’t have the ability to custom mix any color. The companies selected for this article all offer a “Paint Finder” search tool to look up your car or motorcycle year/make/model, choose your color and buy directly online. This review is focused on the touch up paint bottle kits sold by the top 6 touch up paint companies.
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