I was wondering if there is any way to remove a bad touch up without sanding so it could be done the right way?

Thanks.

Paint thinner

In order to paint thinner, I need to get rid of someones attempt to paint thin (1cm around hairline scratch).

Can you post a pic of the touch-up area? I do extensive touch-up's on the BMW's I recondition for resale and from what you are describing, they used too much paint and you have a blob covering the area.

I pic or a better description will help. Things like: color, area (bumper, sheet metal, curved, flat, scratch or rock chip) will all help with providing you some good info.

Toto

Cthey used too much paint and you have a blob covering the area.

Toto

It's dark green subaru, right on the hood. The owner aid that his cat jumped on the hood and he tried to touch it up. It's seems like he got a touch up and used its brush to go nuts with scratches.

well, I guess I'm still a "newbie" because I can't post images. If you go to my Photobucket Dot Com site under Totoland you can see in the main album the touch up tools and an example of an X5 that I did a touch up with.

Totoland

That looks great Totoland! That's what I am aiming for and I already picked up tiny brushes and what not, but how should I go about removing previous hack job?

for removal, I'd soak some Q-Tips in solvent and try to rub out the previous touch up paint. It might take a couple of attempts, but it should come out. Just be cautious with solvent as it's not prejudiced against the original paint and can remove it too!

If that doesn't work, you will need to wet sand the area and then use touch up with a clear coat top. After that, you will need to compound the wet sand marks off and glaze. That's gonna be tough unless you have the proper tools.

I'd try the solvent + Q-Tips and re-touch up from there.

Totoland

Thanks. I'll try the solvent thing.

Would the Langka system work on old touch up?

If so, that would be another interesting approach to fixing a bad touch up job that was older.

I just bought the langka touch up kit for my car and though I have not used it yet...the rave reviews have me pretty excited to try it out.

The ideal time to use Langka to smooth out touch-up paint blobs is a couple of hours after applying the paint. The paint is dry to the touch, yet it is still soft enough that the Langka can easily level it.

I've used Langka (the Mothers-branded product) on month-old touch-up paint before. You have to let the product sit on the paint blob for several minutes and repeat the process a few times because the paint is so dried out. But it works.

Thanks...it seems like you are always answering my questions with very useful information. :-)

I as well have touch up blunders from a previous owner. In my case someone used the touch up paint of dakar (im hoping, it might have even been some other yellow) rather then dakar II. they look terrible. im going to try your style, then hopefully wet sand well.

Thanks for the info