julianfoulger

Cobber wrote:

Painted Plastics are always a problem they are usually painted with a flex aid additive and when so need to be painted separately.
The paint batches are different and will fade at a different rate. And probably weren’t a great colour match to begin with.
The problems that your gonna have with buying off the shelf touch up paint is a good colour match as well as having no flex additive.
The paint will be harder than the plastic it’s on so chips and cracks are a definite likelihood.
You need to go to a proper automotive paint store that supplies the panel shops and get them to mix it for you, take the car in and they can mix it to match, they will use the paint code as a starting point. Do explain that it is the plastic bits that you are painting and they will know if it needs a flex additive.
A good paint mixer with a good eye will get you real close. And will be able to pack your paint in an aerosol can for you.
Don’t wast your time and money at the parts and accessories supermarkets the 12 years olds they employ wouldn’t know their armpit from their arsehole without having a sniff……..even then they’d need a couple of goes to get it right!

Is this flex aid additive only in the primer or in the colour /clear coats as well? I assume that for parts that do not flex (door handle surreounds), this flex aid is not required?