Freightliner 2018 Touch Up Paint

2018 Freightliner Touch Up Paint (90 OEM Colors)

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For small chips & scratches

Customized Color Paint Pen

Repair tiny chips and scratches with precision. Perfect for small nicks from rocks or door dings, the fine tip applicator makes it easy for beginners to achieve a clean, factory-quality finish.

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For Medium-sized Chips & Scratches

Customized Color Paint Bottle

Tackle medium-sized scratches and chips with our Customzied Color Paint Bottle. The built-in applicator brush provides smooth, controlled coverage, while the included basecoat delivers a perfect factory match in your custom paint color.

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For larger areas & panel resprays

Customized Color Spray Can

Cover larger areas with a smooth, professional finish using ourcustomized color Spray Can. Designed for hoods, fenders, and larger scratches, this product provides consistent spray coverage and factory-matched color accuracy.

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For large repairs & total resprays

Customized Color Professional Size Paint

When your repair job calls for more than a touch-up, step up to our professional-size automotive paints. Available in Pint, Quart, or Gallon sizes, these paints are ready-to-spray using an airless spray gun.

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For small chips & scratches

Customized Color Tricoat Paint Pens

Repair tiny chips and scratches with precision. Perfect for small nicks from rocks or door dings, the fine tip applicator makes it easy for beginners to achieve a clean, factory-quality finish. Each order includes a basecoat and a midcoat pen.

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For Medium-sized Chips & Scratches

Customized Color Tricoat Paint Bottles

Tackle medium-sized scratches and chips with our Customzied Color Paint Bottles. The built-in applicator brush provides smooth, controlled coverage, while the basecoat & midcoat deliver a perfect factory match in your custom paint color.

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For larger areas & panel resprays

Customized Color Tricoat Spray Cans

Cover larger areas with a smooth, professional finish using our customized color basecoat & midcoat Spray Cans. Designed for hoods, fenders, and larger scratches, this product provides consistent spray coverage and factory-matched color accuracy.

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For large repairs & total resprays

Customized Color Tricoat Professional Size Paint

When your repair job calls for more than a touch-up, step up to our professional-size automotive paints. Available in Pint, Quart, or Gallon sizes, these paints are ready-to-spray using an airless spray gun. Each order includes a basecoat & a midcoat paint.

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How to Find Your 2018 Freightliner's Color Code

The Freightliner color code is obtained by contacting Freightliner to see if they can determine the color code. If there is no color code, the alternative is the PPG or Dupont (Axalta) paint formula number.

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2018 Freightliner Background Info

The 2018 Freightliner Vibe

Welcome to 2018, the year Freightliner decided the "New Cascadia" needed to look more like a spaceship than a semi. It was an era of peak fleet customization-our database alone tracks 90 distinct colors for this year. While the rest of the world was boring itself to death with "Rental Car Silver," Freightliner was out here spraying everything from Black Cherry and Black Gold to John Deere Green and Sleeman Yellow. These trucks weren't just haulers; they were high-gloss, aerodynamic billboards designed to make the company logo pop under LED highway lights.

Paint Health Check

But here's the rub from the "Thin Paint Era." By 2018, the robots in the factory had become too efficient. They figured out how to save about 30% on paint by stretching every drop to its absolute limit. It's called "Robot Efficiency," but I call it "painting with a flashlight." Because these coats are thinner than a driver's patience at a weigh station, a single rock chip on the hood of an M2 or a Cascadia doesn't just stay a chip-it becomes a starting point for the clear coat to think about early retirement. If you're seeing bubbling or "sheet flaking" on your white or metallic panels, you've hit the 2018 reality: the bond between that thin factory topcoat and the primer is officially waving the white flag.

Restoration Tip

When you're fixing a 2018, you have to play by the robot's rules: Build, don't blob. Because the factory finish is so thin, if you come in and drop a huge glob of paint into a chip, it's going to look like a mountain on a pancake. Use our catalyzed spray can to apply three or four very thin mist coats rather than one heavy one. You want to mimic that factory "dusting" to keep the repair level with the surrounding area. Give it ten minutes between passes, and don't try to fill the crater in one go-patience is the only thing that'll keep that Midnight Black or Baja Beige looking seamless.

Freightliner Models Released in 2018

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