ScottKalmus

Decided to fix some marks on my rear bumper this weekend with the touch-up paint that I ordered from Audi. I started by preping three of the spots that needed work. I then applied the first coat of paint, waited for it to dry and put on a second. After the second coat was fully dry I noticed that the paint I got from Audi was not a very good match. In fact you could say that my bumper looks worse now than it did before I started.

Will it look better once I apply the clear coat, or should I scrap the job and find a better matching paint?

Does anyone know of another paint that is a good match for Silver and might come in a spray can?

If anyone could offer some advice I'd really appreciate it!

Ray Khan

are you sure you have the right silver...it was changed at some point I believe

ScottKalmus

it did say Aluminum Silver on the box.

HDClown

could be your paint is faded and that's why it doesn't match?

ScottKalmus

I thought of that too, but the touch-up paint seems darker than any silver A4 I've seen...

CraigB

You may need to shake it up more.

RageRacer

Did you mix/shake the paint bottle long enough?

HDClown

maybe you need some langka ?

Ray Calvo

Had a '76 911 and present '98.5 Avant which were/are silver. I was never able to get a smooth match to the original. The metal flakes in the silver apparently line up in a certain way in the original spraying, which you can't match with a brush touch-up.

A local body shop put on a demonstration of spraying a body panel with a metallic. He was able to get a widely varying color tint and texture just by varying the air pressure and distance from the panel. Painting a silver car and matching the remainder of the body is an art as well as a skill.

ScottKalmus

What's langka ?