T_AR

I noticed a deep scratch yesterday in one of the wheels. I have the two piece wheels and I recall some discussion that the paint is not available in the U.S. Anyone have any ideas for a close match to touch up the scratch?

HPH

...as I discovered on one of my sets of wheels. I finally gave up and send them off to be refinished (in light silver metallic, matching my car).

However, I just noticed that my other (winter) set now has a couple of scratches, probably from the snow drift I went through a while back. Must have had some rocks imbedded in it. Aargh!

So, anyway, with the first set, I tried (and I'm not exaggerating here) every shade of metallic silver touch-up paint I could find at every auto parts place in town, more than 30 altogether.

The best color match I found was (believe it or not) Rustoleum silver aluminum (2115). The trouble with this is that it's not a real lacquer paint, so if you put clear-coat on top of it, it changes color and dissolves. Also, I expect this means that it's rather soft and will go away if you polish it too much.

But for little scratches, that's the best match I found. It's available in both quarts (pints, in you're lucky) and spray cans.