Painting scratches

sevenhills

I know that there are companies that specialise in removing sctratches, but how do I it get repaired DIY, if its a deep scratch?
My daughters car is black and its a plastic bumper, so not looking to re-spray anything, just fill in the scratches with black. Can that be done?

atrixblue.-MFR-.

sevenhills wrote: »

I know that there are companies that specialise in removing sctratches, but how do I it get repaired DIY, if its a deep scratch?
My daughters car is black and its a plastic bumper, so not looking to re-spray anything, just fill in the scratches with black. Can that be done?

yes but it may not look pretty. Halford do a touch up repair kit (expensive for wht it is mind), open the bonnet or door and locate the Colour code off the Vin plate take into halfords and look for the paint code in the catalog it will tell you the paint name and Halfords internal code to locate the kit form the shelf.

nickcc

Not sure if this helps but make sure the original paint isn't water based as most car paint has been for the last ten years. Spraying cellulose based paint will cause the original paint to blister.

PDC

I had a black car that had deep scratches up one side and over the bonnet.

Turtlewax do a black colour polish that comes with a 'chipstick' - lipstick type device, you fill in the scratch, just drawing over it basically, with that and then polish over it. It worked well and pretty much much completely hid the scratch. Would last about six months before it got worn away and needed redoing/polishing. That said if this is a scratch in a plastic, non painted, bumper then this isn't going to work for that.

neilmcl

Chipex - https://www.chipex.co.uk/shop/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAxZPgBRCmARIsAOrTHSbAAZBd88AvbYzrDW9Jk9DnE6bdVUPJGgehfvGsYyEDKCyqFEtz12IaAsbbEALw_wcB

I've used the kits before and you can get pretty reasonable results and its quite easy to use. Check out some of the vids on youtube.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

nickcc wrote: »

Not sure if this helps but make sure the original paint isn't water based as most car paint has been for the last ten years. Spraying cellulose based paint will cause the original paint to blister.

You will not find cellulose paints in any modern mass produced touch ups (unless its more than 15yrs old). Its all mostly acrylic. cellulose touch ups are mainly made to order.

nickcc

atrixblue.-MFR-. wrote: »

You will not find cellulose paints in any modern mass produced touch ups (unless its more than 15yrs old). Its all mostly acrylic. cellulose touch ups are mainly made to order.

Unfortunately the likes of Halfords etc don't carry sufficient range so many cars not listed. Tried to get water based paint for last three cars, Toyota, Peugeot and Nissan, all under six years but without success.

EdGasketTheSecond

Get some of this to fill the scratch(es):


https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00C9D5T70/ref=asc_df_B00C9D5T7057261665/?!!!!!googshopuk-21&creative=22110&creativeASIN=B00C9D5T70&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309775958298&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13497551748162082221&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9045782&hvtargid=pla-561513875256&th=1&psc=1


Sand down smooth and spray with matching paint from Halfords.

knightstyle

Some years ago some nasty person keyed my car the day before I was trading it in under the then £1000 scrappage scheme, for another one.
I used my child's wax crayon that was the same colour and it was then very difficult to see any blemishes.
So useful for a temporary repair but probably did not last long.

MataNui

I would add a + 1 for Chipex. I tidied up various bits of road rash on a metallic silver BMW before PXing it and the result was almost invisible. You would really need to know where it had been touched up and look for it to see it.

UncleZen

+1 for the turtle wax color magic with chipstick, once you get the hang of it, it looks OK.

I once bought a black car that had a few chips in the bonnet, I asked the dealer to sort them, all they did was polish it and the chips filled with white polish. 20 mins with turtle wax and a chipstick and I did a better job than the useless dealer.