Dr. Color Chip: is this normal?

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So I used the dr color chip kit for my black 2017 wrx and the touch up paint doesn't seem to blend too well as seen in the pics below.

Would this be considered normal for the doctor color chip kit or should I reach out to the company?

The touch up paint are those matte gray spots in the middle of the picture.

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Doesn't even look close. Send them the picture and see what they say.
 
Rsurfer said:
Doesn't even look close. Send them the picture and see what they say.
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Yeah those were my thoughts. Definitely disappointed. Its over the 60 days but I haven't gotten a chance to use the kit since buying it. Maybe I got a bad batch. One thing to note, it looks decent wet and when rubbing the sealact but as soon as it dries it looks like this.

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Mike Phillips said:
That doesn't look right.


How long are you letting the touch-up paint dry before rubbing the Sealact over it?


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I believe for my attempts I usually would rub the sealact after 5 to 15 minutes.

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I could be wrong about this, but here are my thoughts. Maybe I'm right, or on the right track.

One quality of a couple of Dr Colorchip's paints I myself have bought and used are a seeming propensity of looking a good bit on the "flat-dull" side.

Meaning there is little to none in the way of clear pigment being added into the paint formulas. Your comments about noting that the paint looks better when still wet or wetted with the Sealact Solution seems to confirm this.

My guess is that the Dr. Colorchip Paint Formulas need to largely consist of color pigment, otherwise they'd have no ability to hide a chip and the underlying primer, that you'd still be seeing such primer even when after a numerous number of coats have been applied to fill.

Perhaps somebody, perhaps a company representative from Dr. CC can elaborate on this some more, and that my guess again would be that once a sealant, or a wax, or a coating is applied, this dullish look is then lessened, and will give the touch up repair some more gloss.

When I first used the Dr Colorchip System a few years back on my White Tahoe, about a good week after doing the chip repair I did polish the vehicle, came back again to do some minor finessing of possibly removing some of the paint during the polishing processes, and did many of them again, then I prepped and coated the entire vehicle with Carpro CQuartz UK.

I'm of the thought that the coating helped lay down a top coating of a good amount of gloss to these touched up areas, and helping them blend and match the factory finish much better.
 
Rsurfer said:
Doesn't even look close. Send them the picture and see what they say.
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Also agree with this. I've used quite a bit of doctor Colorchip. The color should be much closer. This may seem like a stupid question, but did you shake it real good before you started?
 
DaveT435 said:
Also agree with this. I've used quite a bit of doctor Colorchip. The color should be much closer. This may seem like a stupid question, but did you shake it real good before you started?
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Oh yes, I gave a ton of good shakes and I also used the supplied extra brush to mix the bottle for the metallic flakes per the instructions. Could there be something on the car that causes it turn that color? I dont know what it would be though.

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Not correct...

Just did mine in black. If you left some paint on surface of paint---It'll look like that. You need to remove all of dr color chip paint from surface of paint outside of the chip.

Another thing---you have to be really be careful with blending agent. It separates less than a couple of minutes. Need to shake well before applying on towel.

Go ahead and remove it. Try again. I had to do mine 4 or 5 times before I got the hang of it.

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Dr Colorchip got back to me and they are sending me a new mixed bottle of paint. I'll let everyone know the results! If it doesn't work it could be the sealact? But kudos to their customer service for putting in the order and shipping the new paint out!

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I love the ease of use and color accuracy of Dr. Color Chip, but have experienced what you are showing when I use their "blending agent" Perhaps it's user error but for me I just use the paint and a small squeegee to level it inside the chip. I'll let it dry and put a magnifier in front of me when using a small swab and the blending agent to clean off the part around the chip where it is on top of my cars paint.

Kinda odd but I'm like that and find that it works for me and since I have no patients for trying over and over with their agent...I stick with what works for me.
 
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