Jodster

Blue Mica MY2000 now has a two foot long scrape down the drivers side passenger door. White dust around it so it looks only lacquer deep, not through to the metal. I use Wax Wizard products so body is/was immaculate.

Not prepared to get wound up about it as it's done now (b'stards) but anyone got suggestions on repairing it?

Thanks in advance.

Paulo P

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I can never work out the point behind doing this

Can you feel the scratch? Does it feel deep? Can you take a photo? You may be able to rub it down with 2000 wet and dry and polish it with rubbing compound.

les1

If its not too deep?, T-cut with a mop, or by hand, keep at it, it won't work straight away?......don't push too hard.

wrxmania

T-cut with a mop?!?!?!

Clive the Brave

first you find the **** that has done this.
cut his right hand off, knee cap him and then brake each finger on the left hand.

On this occation is does sound like your lucky, some years ago I had a bmx 520 (old mans car) mint condition, someone run a key around the car, every panel down to the metal surface. The only thing was a re-spray.

They did polish out some of the marks, fantastic job, but something I would not have a go at, tools for the job, knowing what you are doing. I always go with "give it to someone who does this for a living" a bad job from them is going to be a better job then I could do it.

Give it to the pro's..............
Sorry to here that the git's are not tied to your bumper.

Good luck
Clive

Clive the Brave

bmw520 not a bmx520
Clive

Paulo P

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Jodster

[QUOTE=paulpalmer]
T-Cut Colour - for real? I thought that stuff was supposed to be ****e.

There is a ridge in the lacquer so the line that is visible is the rough edges of the lacquer. I'm hopeful some gradual polishing will blend those rough edges in and the line will disappear.
I won't take wet and dry to it as I don't have the bottle. I'll try a bit of t-cut and then Swissol wax when I get home and see what I get. I don't think I can damage it further doing this and if it's still obvious afterwards I'll look at taking it to a specialist. Just in case, can anyone recommend a good bodyshop near Sutton, Surrey?

Thanks for all the replies. You are a good bunch of lads.

scooby L

Just had a trolley scratch re-filled and re-sprayed by my local body-shop.

£120 and the job is better than the subaru finish before..

If your car means as much to you as mine does to me then just bite the bullet and pay for it to be done professionally..

You will allways notice it mate, even if you can polish 99.9% of it out!

(Just my opinion)

rob oneill

Id be very careful about trying to rub it out, everyone always complains about how thin Subaru paint is, if you rub through the laquer then it will be 10 times worse.
If I was you I would get a very fine paint brush, and paint laquer into the scratch, do this as many times as necessery to build back to the original level.
Once fully hardened, carefully flat it back down using a very small sanding block and 2000 grit wet and dry (with plenty of water.)
Then use some rubbing compound on a soft rag (reccomend 'Farecla G3') until shiney again.

This will work, if you have the patience to do it.

Hope this helps, Rob.

StickyMicky

sound advice, i was trained to do this when i was a valater, infact ive actualy started doing the scoobys stone chips in this method tonite

but if if its really long and deep, the best idea would probably be the spray job, try the repair first and see how you go on

les1

yes, G3/G6 too abrasive to use with a polishing mop, 3M not abrasive enough.
t-cut has just the right amount in it.
Or you can use a crayon to fill the scratch, depends if you want it mint, then spray is the only way.

c7blue

probably best not to use t-cut as it contains ammonia which can knock the bollocks out of mettalic and pearl finishes, i used g3 and then got the gleam back with some 3m finnese it hand glaze followed by wax which did the trick on some scratches on mine. apparently there is some new stuff by farecla called g4 (emergent theme!) which is not quite so abrasive.
good luck!!

micared

Had what sounds like exactly the same problem with a metallic black Corolla GTI a few years ago. It looked like mine was through the lacquer though, so having decided it would need painting anyway, I borrowed a mop and some G3, and set about it to see how much I could get rid of. Turned out it wasn't through to the paint, and all the damage mopped out. If you're not confident enough to have a go yourself, it might be worth asking a bodyshop you can trust for their opinion, if they can mop it out, it should be a cheap fix.

rob oneill

Trouble is, if you try to cut down to the level of the scratch, ie, to just polish it out, you have no idea how far you can go, one minute it will look like its working fine, then the next, a patch of laquer gone.

If you touch up the scratch, then flatten back down to the level of the original laquer, you dont run as much risk of doing this, and will make a good repair.

Jodster

Thanks everyone. As it's my pride and joy I've decided to take it to a shop to have it done properly.

red wrex

Just take it to a bodyshop and get them to compound buff it and it should come out

2000TLondon

Sorry to hijack this thread, but anyone recommend a good body shop in / around London.

99PPPDriver

http://www.littleknocks.co.uk/

Highly Recommended!

Nice guys too.

Tell them where you got the tip from!

Peter

Scooby Singh

Yup Little Knocks are great, ask for chris and dont forget to mention SN