If you were in Chicago, I'd recommend:

http://carnicainc.com

But it costs more than $5 I've seen their work and had work done. It's amazing.

 

Yea Chicago is like a 3hr drive for me. So that's kind of far for me to go. I've seen the pen touchup paint and I think it sucks because that's what the dealer gave my wife to do touchup paint on her car, but than again I didn't buff the car afterwards and maybe that might of helped alittle.

 

Well, I just bought mine from the dealership not a week ago, and it only cost me $5. But I opted to get the kind WITHOUT the pen on it. Those did cost more. I got the old-school kind that were made for the AP1s. AP2s may have only the pen-type available. . . . but I don't know.

 

good luck getting that fixed up. if that happened to me i would get so mad. i work at a grocery store so i watch my car like a hawk non stop

 

Well just got done doing the touch up paint on the car and it turned out crappy....I sucked at applying it or something. Anyone located near me who would be willing to help me out alittle?

 

^sorry to hear bro. If i was closer, i'd try to help. Touch-up paint is VERY hard to get professional-type results with. The full process would be something like as follows:

1. wash the car (or at least the area)
2. Prep the area by stripping the wax using an APC / alcohol / etc, then rinse with water
3. dry and inspect under shop lights / halogen lights / something BRIGHT
4. Carefully and thoroughly wet-sand the area with high grade paper that has been soaking at least an hour. This will likely take specialized automotive sanding paper and has to be done in steps. (which is why i have 1500, 2000, 2500, and 3000 grit paper)
5. alcohol wipe-down the area to insure it's completely clean
6. make sure the area is thoroughly dry
7. apply several ultra-thin layers of the paint, waiting for each prior coat to properly dry
8. resand the area to smooth things out
9. buff out the area to help it blind-in
10. happy your "touch-up" job is FINALLY over...

The less time you put in, the worse / more noticable the results will be. Truly a PITA, but still better than a re-spray (having to risk bad color matching, orange peel, and less durable / flexble after market paint? I don't think so).

 

^^^

I don't know if I would have the time or patience for a procedure like that, but it certainly seems like it would make the area look nearly flawless when done.

Most of my touchup junk has been rock chips. I've made the mistake before of accidentally dropping a huge blob of paint on the car, so now I make sure there is hardly any paint on the brush at all. The other problem is blobs dripping off the stick and either onto the brush or worse- the car.

 

Yea process seems really long. I will have to try it again with better sand paper. I was only dont 80,220, and than 440. Went to some shops and the least expensive one was $450 just to fix. So will try again. Thanks for the info.