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Lights
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Touch up paint

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Hi can anyone help me, wanting to find some touch up paint for this parkway folding bike. Looks like metallic greyish silver?

Many thanks
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David9694
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Re: Touch up paint

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Your best bet is taking it to your local accessory shop for a tin of Holts.
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GayUnicorn
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Some body shops have a machine that will colour match, there is one in the next town that also does car body panels for accident damage cars.
Lights
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Re: Touch up paint

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Ok thank you, Went to Halfords and they had no clue. Yes will try a body paint garage instead. Thank you.
drossall
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I've had success variously with Halfords touch-up paint and Humbrol and similar modelling enamels. But for a silver bike like that, Halfords will have about 100 possibles and you have to guess which will match!
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Or order a tin of Hammerite smooth off of Amazon...
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Lights
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Re: Touch up paint

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Ok thanks, yes thought they may have some, was surprised when they said they couldn’t help. Thanks for the suggestions. The pictures are not a true reflection is like a metallic dark grey which gives off a blue colour shine.
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Lights wrote: 14 Jun 2021, 9:02am Ok thank you, Went to Halfords and they had no clue. Yes will try a body paint garage instead. Thank you.
I tried this at my nearest colour match place - apparently the machine needs to read off a flat area, so no good for round tubes, but you might get away with it.
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Good luck finding an exact match, I've never managed it, even using the same manufacture's paint, it's weathered differently, or there's been a batch difference, but usually I've just not found a match, whatever it looks like on the tin. IMO a slight mismatch stands out more than a complete contrast, hiding in plain sight.
alexnharvey
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Look out for cars that are a close match then buy the touch up.
Lights
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Re: Touch up paint (solved)

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Hi thank you all for your suggestions I visited a car body paint garage and they have given me the closest match which is a Toyota 8S5 greyish blue and gave me a pot to try. I have tried it and it’s the closest to the colour and great colour for filling in the chips etc.
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Well done.
Glad your issue solved easily.
Lights
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Thank you.
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