Car scratch

outlaw777

Hey whats the best way to get rid of a visible scratch on the side of a car?

Hammyman

Depends. If its only light, a compounding with Farecla G2000 can get shut of it. If its deeper, it needs sanding then polishing if its not gone through the colour layer. If its gone through the colour layer, you're looking at scratch repairer or bodyshop.

outlaw777

Hammyman wrote: »

Depends. If its only light, a compounding with Farecla G2000 can get shut of it. If its deeper, it needs sanding then polishing if its not gone through the colour layer. If its gone through the colour layer, you're looking at scratch repairer or bodyshop.

It looks like someone has done a zig zag scatch on it with a coin?

Harry_Flashman

Has it gone to bare metal or undercoat?

10JH

You could get a small pot of touch up paint.

I think Halfords sell them for popular car makes, if they don't have it then your dealer will.

anewman

10JH wrote: »

You could get a small pot of touch up paint.

I think Halfords sell them for popular car makes, if they don't have it then your dealer will.

Problem with those is people just splosh them on and you get a thick raised bump of paint that looks just as bad as the scratch.

Harry_Flashman

Yes, but if you do it properly, it's not hard to make it almost invisible.

Hintza

outlaw777 wrote: »

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rev_henry

10JH wrote: »

You could get a small pot of touch up paint.

I think Halfords sell them for popular car makes, if they don't have it then your dealer will.

Yep, if Halfords don't have your specific paint (check your paint code under the bonnet next to the VIN usually) on the shelf they can make it up for you as well. I think the rule of thumb is if you can feel the scratch with your finger then it needs painting over (ideally sanding and painting etc) but if you can't feel it you should be able to polish it out with T-cut scratch remover or similar. As long as you paint over it carefully it should look ok. I've recently painted over a load of scratches that were on my car when I bought it and it looks much better.

cyclonebri1

outlaw777 wrote: »

Hey whats the best way to get rid of a visible scratch on the side of a car?

Sell the car.











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Ignore it, you will get others.

Queries

You could try T-Cut. Bear in mind it is cheaper to buy this from Asda rather than Halfords (£3.50 for one bottle of T-Cut or £5.00 for two as oppose to £5.99 for one from Halfords).