Scratch/Dent repair

Alkers

First minor incident, reversing into the drive last night.
Do any of those paint touch-up products work and if so what's the best one? What else can I do to improve the appearance of the scratch in the pic?
Thanks

cantdecide

ooohhhhh....

Nasty little scratch on 2 panels. I'm sure most here will tell you to put up with it or fix it properly. Touching it up will only make it worse. It looks like a new enough car and I might would touch up a €1000 wrecker if the scratch was rusting through but not your car.


Unfortunately it looks like it could be fairly expensive to paint the bumper and panel- like €300+ depending where you go and you'd have to bring it somewhere good or you could end up with slightly different shades against the original paint if you brought it to a cheap panelbeater.

Alkers

Most of it is on the plastic bumper so that won't rust, just looking to prevent the part on the main panel from rusting and get it to a similar color if at all possible.

cantdecide

If the primer is all that's showing on the quarter panel and you can't see bare metal, I'd seroiusly leave it until teh time's right to get it done properly.

I there's steel showing, what you could do is get the quarter panel painted professionally and tell them to do what they can by touching up the bumper. This will save money and won't be half as hard to explain away as touched up damage to 2 panels.

Unfortunately it looks nothing but it's bad enough to require the same treatment as much worse damage, ie fill and paint.

mickdw

job for a body shop for sure

Caveat

Have heard good things about ChipsAway

cantdecide

Caveat wrote: »

Have heard good things about ChipsAway

For the wall, you mean?:D