2025 Mazda Touch Up Paint (19 OEM Colors)

The 2025 Mazda Vibe

Welcome to 2025, the year Mazda decided to stop being "just another car company" and started acting like a boutique paint studio that also happens to sell SUVs. With the arrival of the big-boy CX-70 and the three-row CX-90, the streets are looking like a 19-color buffet. We're seeing a shift away from the boring "rental car silver" toward sophisticated, moody tones. You've got Zircon Sand and Cypress Green for the CX-50 "outdoor influencers," and Aero Gray or Melting Copper for the city slickers in their Mazda3s. It's a high-class palette that makes a modern MX-5 look like a piece of rolling jewelry, especially in that Artisan Red Premium Tricoat.

Paint Health Check

Here's the reality from the spray booth: we are deep in the Thin Paint Era. These cars are beautiful, but they're finished with "Robot Efficiency." Mazda uses a layering technique called Takuminuri-which is fancy Japanese for "we taught a robot to paint like a master craftsman, but only used half the material." Because the factory layers are measured in microns, the clear coat on a 2025 CX-5 is exceptionally thin. It looks like liquid glass in the showroom, but after six months on the interstate, the front bumper starts looking like Swiss cheese. If you follow a gravel truck in a Deep Crystal Blue Pearl CX-30, you aren't just getting a chip; you're getting a microscopic crater that goes straight to the primer.

Restoration Tip

When you're fixing a chip on a 2025 Mazda, you have to play the long game. Because the factory finish is so thin and layered, a single "blob-and-go" touch-up is going to stand out like a sore thumb. The Fix: Build your layers slowly. For those complex colors like Soul Red or Artisan Red, don't try to fill the hole in one shot. Apply a tiny amount of color, let it shrink and dry, and then repeat until the level is just below the surface. Top it with a thin clear layer and resist the urge to sand it flat until it's had a few days to fully gas out. You're mimicking a robot's precision with a human hand-patience is your only friend here.