Problem from person backed up into me

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Greg Ayo

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Fellow autopians. I come to you with a problem





Some lady backed up into my newly painted rear bumper.
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What do you guys suggest I do to minimize the look of this?
 
Greg Ayo- I'd have the woman pay for a repaint of the bumpercover, done properly (i.e., off the car). It was newly painted, she messed it up, her responsibility to put it back into "pre-her" condition.



If she's not going to, and you don't want to spend the $, then just touch it up and don't worry about that small area not having the flex additive.
 
Touch up paint ? Problem with that is that it never comes out nicely when I do that. Maybe I'm just not good at it. I'm not sure. How do you usually do it. Dab the pen? Or...



I know it might be a simple question. But Iv never been good at using that darn pen
 
Greg Ayo said:
Touch up paint ? Problem with that is that it never comes out nicely when I do that. Maybe I'm just not good at it...
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Mine seldom (like....never ;) ) turn out right with metallics, but on "straight" colors they're sometimes OK. The work I did on my white Crown Vic didn't seem all that good when I did them, but now that I've lived with the repairs for a while they don't bother me any more.



I'm not sure. How do you usually do it. Dab the pen? Or...
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I don't use the touchup pens.



I use either two-part touchup paint from Paintscratch.com or Automotivetouchup.com (I think those are the names of the sites, sorry...no links handy) or the single-stage stuff from Dr. ColorChips. When I use the latter I apply it like a regular touchup paint, *NOT* the way they say to do it.



I use various small artist's brushes to apply, sizes 1 down to maybe 000 (triple zero, or "three-oh").



If you use the two-part stuff, use just a *little* color/basecoat, enough to cover the damage, and then "fill" the area up with clearcoat. If you use the Dr. Colorchip stuff, just do two or so applications to fill in the damage.



That'll leave you with a "blob" of touchup paint higher than the surrounding factory paint. Either live with that or level it. I DO NOT recommend that you level it the way I do (via wetsanding) as there's a huge chance you'll mess things up (not intended as an insult!). Level the two-part stuff with a product like Langka, level the Dr. Colorchips stuff with their solvent.



No, it won't be perfectly level, and if you overdo it the solvents will just remove all the touchup paint and you'll have to start over. But you won't mess anytihng up with this approach and you can just do that "remove it all and start over" if you think it's necessary.



Don't worry about a little-mismatch of the color; nobody will see it except for you.
 
David Fermani said:
2...*have a mobile touch up guy spot in this area ($100-200)..
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If we had decent guys like that in my area I could probably keep them solvent singlehandedly :chuckle: The work I've seen wasn't, uhm....up to par IMO, though I guess others are happy with it.
 
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