Originally Posted by jginnane

It looks like you get quite a lot with their system for forty bucks. However, I'd be concerned that the paint might initially match up, but then not fade or last the same way factory paint does.

Not to sound like a rocket scientist know-it-all, but usually premium paints contain titanium dioxide to give the brightest, best-wearing appeal. Lower grades contain other things. An imitator can get a good color match under specific lighting conditions, like broad daylight, but then when you look at the same spot with night street lighting (for example) the paint that isn't mixed exactly the same would have a "muddy" appearance. (And if it still looks OK with street sodium lights, then check it in the garage under fluorescent lights.)

I said early in this thread that I had too much experience with painting plastic bumpers. Any decent body shop is going to sand and fill all the specks, then paint the WHOLE bumper to make it look good and blend with the paint on the rest of the car. With a tricoat paint, they do it three times: base, metallic, and clear coat.

So an $8 Nissan paint stick isn't the worst way to fill small nicks. You can pay a little more, and get worse ... or pay a whole lot more, then wait for someone else to hit-and-run your bumper again. In NYC, the damage in these pictures wouldn't even get touched up. (That's what happens, and the Z owner should be lucky the bumper cover didn't get completely ripped off or a hole punched through it.)