Hit and run....

ajnavo61490 · 03-02-08, 10:50

this morning i was washing my car planning to polish it out... all went well until i got to the rear driver's side quarter panel... HUGE SCRATCH!!! It's down to the metal and pretty significant IMO and prolly 90% of ppl's opinions. I don't know when it happened... so my insurance won't cover it. Anyways, im looking for a paint touch-up kit... any good ones out there that yall have had good results from and won't break my wallet either?

Heres a pic...

Luster · 03-04-08, 06:22

I'm sorry that happened to you. The same thing has happened to all of us at some point.

The problem with that kind of a scratch is that touch up paint will definitely show. The entire scratch needs to be sanded, filled with filler primer, re-painted and re-cleared. That's 500 bucks minimum.

There are some paint shops out there that specialize in touchups, air-brushing, etc. Now all you have to do is find one!

My Corvette had 3 quarter-size chips out of the paint. All the way down to fiberglass.

There is a painter here in KC who did the touch up on the car and you honestly can't see where those spots were.

bumoftheday · 03-04-08, 07:04

Make friends with a body shop. I got a hit and run situation like that, except much bigger, taken car of for $175.

Deanski · 03-04-08, 08:10

As much as I used to do paintwork may many years ago, I still farm out ALL touchup or worse to a bodyshop that deals in these. They have the best equipment and more importantly, talent/skill to handle this.

Sure, you can do the whole paint/clearcoat touchup, wetsand, level and polish, but why try it if you've never done it?

Spend the cash on having the best shop do this for you, then maintain as before.

I'm sorry some tool had to do this to your car. Time to move on and get it resolved ASAP.

Regards,
Deanski