2018 Lincoln Touch Up Paint (20 OEM Colors)

The 2018 Lincoln Vibe

2018 was the year Lincoln decided to stop apologizing and start acting like royalty again. The Navigator had just been reborn as a rolling sanctuary the size of a studio apartment, and the Continental was finally back to reclaim the country club parking lot. They didn't just give you a few choices that year; they threw the whole catalog at us with 20 distinct shades. Whether it was the deep, soulful Rhapsody Blue or the high-roller Chroma Flame Pearl, Lincoln was leaning hard into "Quiet Luxury." It was a good year to be a chauffeur, but an even better year to be the guy in the back seat.

Paint Health Check

Don't let that showroom glow fool you-we are firmly in the Thin Paint Era. By 2018, the robots in the factory had become so "efficient" that they could stretch a gallon of clear coat across an entire fleet if you let them. These Lincolns look like a million bucks, but that clear coat is thinner than a politician's promise. You're likely seeing the first signs of surrender around the roof line and the windshield edges where the wind whip is the hardest. Those sophisticated tri-coats like White Platinum and Ruby Red have incredible depth, but they also have the structural integrity of a soap bubble when they meet a piece of highway gravel.

Restoration Tip

Because the factory finish is applied with such "robot efficiency," the worst thing you can do is go in heavy-handed. When you're filling in a stone chip on that Burgundy Velvet or Iced Mocha, build your layers slowly. If you try to fill the crater in one shot, you're going to end up with a dark, ugly blob that screams "amateur hour." Apply a thin layer, let it flash, and repeat until you're level with the surrounding surface. When it comes to 2018 tech, patience is the only way to match that factory-thin precision without making your hood look like a game of connect-the-dots.