Patent ID: 7592038

Claim:
A method for repairing at least one coating defect disposed on a substrate coated with a surface coating that exhibits a visual effect generated by the presence of one or more visual effect pigments in said surface coating, said method comprising the steps of: a) applying a first coating composition to form a first layer covering an affected area over the coating defect, wherein the first coating composition comprises one or more visual effect control agents and is free from said visual effect pigments; b) partial drying the first layer; c) applying a second coating composition over the partially dried first layer to form a second layer covering a repair area in that the repair area covers the coating defect and is nested within the affected area, wherein the second coating composition comprises one or more visual effect control agents and one or more matching pigments for matching said visual effect of the surface coating; and d) curing said first and said second layers to form a repaired coating on said surface coating on said substrate; wherein said repaired coating is free of visible edge effect and has visual effect that matches the visual effect of said surface coating.