2024 Buick Touch Up Paint (20 OEM Colors)

The 2024 Buick Vibe

Welcome to the year Buick finally decided to stop dressing like your grandfather's Sunday best and started wearing Italian-cut suits. Between the sleek new Envista and the updated Envision, the brand is leaning hard into a look that's more "urban lounge" than "early bird special." Our database is tracking a healthy 19 colors for this year-enough to keep a shop busy for a decade. They're getting creative with the names, too. Whether you're spraying the deep Cherry Bomb Tricoat, the moody Smokey Amethyst, or the honestly named Some Kinda Blue, the 2024 palette is a mix of sophisticated grays like Sharkskin and bold, multi-stage pearls that look like they belong under gallery lights.

Paint Health Check

Here is the cold, hard truth: we are living in the Thin Paint Era. Back in my day, you could practically sand a car with a brick and still have enough lacquer left to buff. In 2024, the factory robots have "efficiency" down to a science. That clear coat on your Enclave or Encore is applied with the precision of a laser, which is a polite way of saying it's thin. The biggest threat to a 2024 finish isn't oxidation-it's the highway. Because the paint layers are so lean, rock chips can punch through to the primer faster than you can say "Abalone White." If you look closely at a hood with a few thousand miles on it, you'll likely see a constellation of tiny craters where the factory finish just couldn't hold the line.

Restoration Tip

When you're dealing with these modern finishes, forget everything you know about "heavy" coverage. To fix a chip on a 2024 model, you have to mimic the robot's discipline. Build your layers slowly; don't blob it. If you try to fill a deep chip in White Frost Tricoat or Jinx Tricoat with one big drop, it's going to look like a zit on a prom queen. Apply a thin layer, let it flash, and repeat until the level is just right. This is surgical work, not house painting. Treat the clear coat like it's made of glass-because at this thickness, it basically is.