Trim Touch-Up Paint

If you can acquire a very close color match then you can take it to most paint shops and they'll blend you a punt or quart or so.

 

The silver? Try Classic Silver Metallic (1F7). It's the body colour of our '10, and also a perfect match on silver rims.

 

I checked that out for our stock Tesla X rims. Not a match.
20-year-old Yamaha motorcycle tank? Match

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How much did they charge and how big was the bottle of "matching" white touchup paint?

 

I'm sure it was about $10-$12 for 0.5oz just like every other touchup pen/brush from Toyota.

00258-00xxx-21

Insert your three digit color code in place of the xxx. MSRP of $12.02, available as low as $8.68 from some dealers.

089 - White, 1L0 - Silver, 1M2 - Gray, 218 - Black, 5C5 - Yellow, 3U5 - Red, 8Q4 - Blue.

And now comes the inevitable complaint about how Toyota is evil in some way.

 

I think for me it was just shy of $20 CDN. It says “9 ml”, but considering one end is clear coat, might be 4.5/4.5. I never use the clear coat end btw; after seeing it lift the colour coat.

 

Skip the clear coat. My last purchase of a touch-up pen (colour coat at one end, and clear coat (which I never use) at the other end) was in March of 2018, for $13.58 CDN I see. That converts to around $10 USD.

 

Unfortunately for those of us in the US(like the OP), the double-sided paint pen is Canadian only. We could probably order it, but the shipping would likely be more than just buying the clearcoat separately*.

If you want to make a near-invisible repair, the clearcoat is a must. Sand, primer if damage went to metal, color, sand, color, sand, clearcoat, sand, clearcoat, sand, polish. Although the white and red colors add an additional problem. Since they're a 3-coat paint process(the reason for the extra charge), they really should be a 3-coat repair. Toyota doesn't offer that in a repair pen, but some aftermarket companies do.

Though OP got fleeced at the dealer. That dealer was charging a 100% markup on the paint over MSRP. That's why it's always worth doing a bit of research before going to the dealer. Instead of paying $48 at the dealer for a 2-stage product, they could have spent $17.36 for the exact same things from a cheaper dealer or spent around $35 for a 3-stage product at a place like this**: Toyota: Supersonic Red - Paint Code 3U5– Custom Paints Inc ***



*I just checked. $14 paint pen, $35 shipping to a US address
**I'm not vouching for the quality from this particular company. They just came up in a Google search for paint pens, and looked a bit better then the other Amazon and ebay choices
***I used the 3U5 Supersonic Red page because they didn't have 089 Wind Chill Pearl listed. But they can make it if contacted.

 

I was wondering about that. Thanks for clarifying.

Is Dupli-Color still in the game?

 

You can buy them online, just like the Prius block heater that's primarily benefiting Canada but works in the US block as well

 

Yes, but they don't make any of the colors for the gen5(I checked). I used their pens for a couple other vehicles. I was able to touch up very visible chips(driver's door) on an Oxford White Ford Ranger and the results were almost invisible. But the Classic Silver(1F7) on my old Prius was a disaster. It was fine on non-visible areas(I used it to seal the exposed metal edges where I cut a couple holes), but trying to fix something in a visible area was useless. It actually looked worse than before I started(and that's with sanding and everything else). The metallics are just a b!tch to work with. I learned to leave that to the professionals.

 

Nail Polish on top of a dab of primer can work... No shortage of color options when it comes to nail polish.

 

The problem was I had taken a rock chip right in the middle of the front of the roof(directly above the map lights) and hadn't noticed it because it was concealed in that little wind divot the gen3s have. The chip went all the way through the primer and had started to rust just a little before I noticed it. So I had to sand all the rust away and expose clean metal and paint. By that point, it was too much for any of the easy methods, and trying to use touch-up paint just made it worse. When I started, the chip was maybe a millimeter or two and invisible from the front of the car; by the time I was done sanding and prepping, it was almost dime-sized and the touch-up paint made it stick out like a sore thumb from the front.

 

Back to the OP's question... I wonder if trim paint is even needed. Are the trim pieces painted or are they a solid color all the way through?

 

Honestly, your best bet is going to be a color match at an automotive paint shop/body shop. Hopefully they'll have giant rings of paint samples from different car manufacturers. You'll have to just put the samples against the trim in different lighting conditions until you find one that matches. And then hope you can get a sample size of that color without having to get a full pint made up.

And you're going to have to hope the staff at the counter are willing to work with you. It's going to take awhile to find a match, and they're not exactly going to be making a lot of money off your purchase, if you even make one.

 

For a few chips, way down low, I’d give Classic Silver Metallic (1F7) a try first.