This is very annoying. Didn't pull the car in far enough so it got scraped by the garage door. Has anyone used one of those mobile touch-up/repair services? I really don't want to take it to a full service paint shop and spend hundreds.
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Do you have a random orbital buffer? I'd buff what I could out and see what's left. And for what's left just use touch up paint
Quote from: Rich on March 17, 2017, 11:28:50 AM
Do you have a random orbital buffer? I'd buff what I could out and see what's left. And for what's left just use touch up paint
+1
Just take the bumper off and lag bolt a 4"x4" piece of tree corpse on there.
I have not had good luck with touching-up metallic paint. At least the brush applicator variety. Do you mean a rattle can & flatting the coats back with wet-dry paper?
Better just Rhinoliner the whole car.
Did the garage door survive the event?
Quote from: Morris Minor on March 17, 2017, 01:08:44 PM
I have not had good luck with touching-up metallic paint. At least the brush applicator variety. Do you mean a rattle can & flatting the coats back with wet-dry paper?
True, touching up metallic is a bit tougher to get it looking good.
First step, though, is to buff it. I think you'd be surprised how much of the scuffage would disappear with a good buff, even by hand. You'd pretty much just be left with the black spots where the paint is totally gone.
You could go through the time/effort of masking/spraying/leveling, but with scratches like that, I'd rather just buff it and cover up the exposed plastic spots. Hides better than a fresh square of masked paint work.
There are guys that specialize in that kind of repair- usually they work for car dealers. That looks like about $300-$400 bucks to me.
Totaled.
I big MAGA bumper sticker would cover that right up.
Quote from: Morris Minor on March 17, 2017, 01:08:44 PM
I have not had good luck with touching-up metallic paint. At least the brush applicator variety. Do you mean a rattle can & flatting the coats back with wet-dry paper?
Once you're done buffing it, all you'd be left with is a couple of super small what looks like pinhead size black spots to dab some touch up paint on
I think if I use gray primer in the deeper gouges, followed by the touchup paint it should blend better.