Customer Reviews

I picked my VW Beetle Red Rock color using the color code, and PaintScratch provided an accurate color paint along with the primer and clear coat. The base coat was accurate and cost less than a competitor that required a more expensive and difficult tricoat application. As a first time automotive painter, they made the selection easy and took away the guesswork in mixing in stuff like activators or reducers. The primer and base coats went on easily with a stand-alone household HVLP spray gun from Amazon, but the clear did not go on smooth. I will be doing a good amount of wet sanding and buffing to get an acceptable finish. I guess that is a down-side to the ease of not having to mix your own paint. I didn't have to learn how to mix according to the painting conditions (temperature, humidity), but that may have been the reason for the bad orange peel result. There's way more to getting good results, so the orange peel could very well have been due to bad technique. While it will take considerably more effort to get a good smooth finish, I am confident that the end result will be great and for way less money than paying for a paint job. While their tutorials for fixing scratches seem adequate, I wish they provided more instruction for spraying paint and clear coat (stirring and spraying techniques, flash times, cure times, wet sanding and buffing/polishing tips, tips for painting in less than optimum conditions, etc.).