Miata Mailing List: February 1994, Message #8
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   From: suskind@isdev1.melpar.esys.com (Barry A. Suskind)
Subject: RE: MIATA digest 171
   Date: Tue, 1 Feb 1994 10:31:25 -0500

["craig" ] Writes:
> 
> GOZUMM@JEFLIN.TJU.EDU writes:
>

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> The dealer supplied touch up paint in the totally worthless bottle
> applicator sufficed to make the yellow spot a closer red, but from a
> 1/4 mile away was of sufficiently different color to be noticable.
> (perhaps we should add the mazda touch up paint to the list of
> imperfections everyone has been writing about lately).
> 
> 
> cb
> 
> ********************************
> Craig Blakely, Assoc. Director
> Public Policy Research Institute
> H.C. Dulie Bell Bldg. / Suite 314
> Texas A&M University
> College Station, TX  77843-4476
> (409) 845-8800
> CRAIG@PPRI.TAMU.EDU
> 

I have purchased a couple of bottles of touch up paint from the dealer
and had no problems once I shook and stired up the paint enough. If the 
dealer has kept his paint below 50 degrees the thinner will all be at the
top and the paint at the bottom. Ordinary shaking will not help the stuff
has to be warmed back up to about 70 degrees to get it liquid enough to
flow. Sure the touch up paint on my car (blue) does not perfectly match, but
then again my car has been in the weather for 4 years (even covered in the
summer months) so there will be paint fade.

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