Car paint repair

Pip_cas1

Unfortunate reversed my Yaris into lamppost few days ago, rear passenger plastic panel scraped. Can I just touch up with acrylic/plastic paint?    Tia

Goudy

If you can find the paint code, you should be able to buy touch up or a rattle can in the right shade but you'll probably make a mess and it'll look far worse than it looks now.

Even with the correct paint code it'll never blend it without some serious work and knowledge and the scrape will still show through unless it's flatted first.

I would advise to look for a local "SMART" repairer. 
(Small and Medium Area Repair Technology)
They are usually mobile and they are often fairly cheap.

Pip_cas1

Goudy said:

If you can find the paint code, you should be able to buy touch up or a rattle can in the right shade but you'll probably make a mess and it'll look far worse than it looks now.

Even with the correct paint code it'll never blend it without some serious work and knowledge and the scrape will still show through unless it's flatted first.

I would advise to look for a local "SMART" repairer. 
(Small and Medium Area Repair Technology)
They are usually mobile and they are often fairly cheap.

Tbf it's only a thin scratch maybe 3 inches long  

ROY47

https://autocarpaint.co.uk/

have a look at that site for touch up for your cars year model colour  etc

I bought touch up paint for my Qahqai   perfect match   but I  bought cheap very small artist brushes from amaz.. to use instead of the supplied brush

Goudy

You might get a reasonable job with a touchup kit though there are some problems with them.

First of you cars paint is made up of several layers of different paint, undercoat, colour and a clear lacquer.
If you have gone down to the plastic/metal the coloured paint doesn't stick well to the bare surface directly.

Then there's the indent, the scraped off surface will be lower than the rest of the painted surface.
You either feather the edges first or build up the paint in the scratch, both are pretty messy.

I too have used some of these touchup kits with average results.
Lighter plain colours tend to work better than metallics, particularly plain whites.

There are some kits than come with a little bottle of lacquer and a blending solution, plus the paint is slightly thicker.
This allows you to build up the scratch from the bottom (as Roy says, with a tiny brush), blend in the edges and apply a smear of lacquer over the top (and blend again and again).
It's pretty painstaking to get a reasonable finish, paint, let it dry, blend, paint, let it dry, blend and so on, usually over a couple of days and not in this weather/current temperature, you need a bit of warmth and dry days.

Plus most of these kits can cost around a third of what a SMART repairer might charge anyway.