Help! parking lot scrape!

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tC_Crazy

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Well, today is officially a horrible day. I messed up my paint big time. :aww:



I was backing out of a very awkward situation at a gas station so that I could turn around. Long story short, I scraped my bumper/rear drivers side panel against another car. His car was perfectly untouched, but my poor black tC lost some paint. I tried some Meguiars deep crystal polish/paint cleaner on it, but it still looks terrible. I'll post some pics in the morning when I can get some light. Any ideas on how to fix my baby without getting the panel repainted or anything like that?



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His car was perfectly untouched, but my poor black tC lost some paint.
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if you scraped the paint off then there isn't anything that can be done but either touch-ups (if small enough areas) or repainting the panel. with pics we can better assess the damage.
 
Here's a resale car i did a couple days ago. I don't remove dents and the scrape was deep in places but it came out fairly well.



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Yeah i've been kinda busy lately, but here are the pics of the damage.
 

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Nope, the lighter looking spots are actually past the CC and paint. You can clearly feel that it is deeper than the rest of the paint. I'm guessing the light stuff is the primer. :(
 
Someone did the same thing to me (hit and run) a few months ago on my black A4. I couldn't do anything to it even using the polish and PC didn't work. Since the bumper is black and made of plastic, I repainted it using the permanent marker.

If you find a better solution, please post because it will be helpful for everyone.
 
sorry to hear that man. As a fellow tC owner, I feel your pain =(.



I guess if it is too deep, then just try to live with it for as long as you can, and try to save money to buy a bumper. Check junkyards to see if you can score a Flint Mica bumper that's not in too bad of shape (btw we have the same color!).



At least you don't have to worry about it rusting or anything since the bumpers aren't metal.
 
Yeah, I'm going to take it by a body shop this week. And lol paul, i didn't know my flash offset colors that bad... it's a black sand pearl!!



Well, i'll see what happens.
 
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