Waxing Touch up paint

[knj27]

So I used one of those little bottles of touch-up paint to cover up a couple of huge gouges in my paint around the back window of my truck where a camper shell used to be, as well as a few other spots. I was wondering how long do you think the paint needs to sit before I wax/polish over it to clean it up a little bit?

[Pb]

Touch up paint cures pretty quick. 1 or 2 weeks is plenty long enough to wait.

[knj27]

K, thanks, I'll probably give it like 10 days...

[kalikid]

Hey I was thinking about applying some touch up paint to my black camry and was wondering if anyone has some pointers on how to apply the paint. I have a few thin scratches and some small chips. Thanks

[knj27]

For little chips the pen tip can be helful, I had some huge gouges due to a camper shell, so the brush is good too. Black should be easy to match up good, so it should help cover up the more noticable spots. Don't go too crazy with it though, and don't "color outside the lines", so to speak, or it will make it more noticable that it is touch-up painted. It's not really a replacement for actually repainting, but for 6 bucks at autozone, you can make the spots a lot less noticable from a glance.

[Pb]

This article talks about scratch repair, wetsanding, and polishing. This is pretty much the same method that I use to fix scratches. http://guidetodetailing.com/articles.php?articleId=15