So I have the OEM Silverstone touchup paint, but it shows up much darker than the stock paint. After 5 days it still looks darker, so it's not just about drying.

THoughts?

 

What exactly did you paint? and was it in the spray can type touch up paint?

 

a couple chips on metal and bumper, then a larger spot on the bumper.

brush on type.

 

Okay, well its probably alot darker with the brush on type b/c your paint is a metallic. Metallics have to be sprayed very even (which is hard) to get a certain color. With brush on type metallic paint, your globbing a bunch of metallic color on there which builds it up un-even, even if your applying it evenly with a brush, its not as even as paint that is sprayed. It almost has to be sprayed on to have a close match. Even if you spray with the exact color, the new color will be slightly darker (barely), just b/c your paint has been in the sun quite a bit, and therefor is lighter than the brand new paint. I hope this helps some. I painted my lip and stuff with a spray can from Automotivetouchup.com. Alot of people here have tried to paint their lips just like I did and had awesome results also. Might want to give that a try. Ony $20 for the can of base, and like $10 for a can of clear.

 

+1 on Automotivetouchup.com, they have excellent advice as well on painting and prep.

 

a silver color is the worst color yuo can have when it's tome to do touch up . Because like suzuka-blue-s2k said , the metallics colors needs to be sprayed to get a nice result