Hi everyone,

Sorry for the people who have come here expecting more

After MITcar yesterday noticed some lovely person had tried to key their name in my door. As you can expect I'm a little more than angry.

I have a touchup pen but need to know the exact technique to colour match it I have everything I think I need such as TCUT and Polish/Clay. If someone could make a list of steps I would be more than grateful.

Thanks a lot,

Michael

Unless you got an already colour matched touch up pen then there wont be much that you can do apart from put it on the damaged area, wait until it dries and see what its like.
If its raised up and looks ugly, get some high grade wet and dry sand paper and GENTLY sand it back (preferably with something solid and flat) then after you have wet sanded the area, polish the living carp out of it until its shiny again

I ordered it from Fiat using the paint code in the boot so not colour matched. Panels dont seem to have faded much and other touchups are barely noticable. Will give it a go tomorrow and report back

Cheers,

Michael

Thanks looks quite good. I have the odd stone chips but these aren't very deep so may get away with a couple of coats to fill the hole?

I'm always amazed to see something like this. I was so careful at MITcar to make sure no buckles,zips or camera stuff touched the cars and then someone does this on mine intentionally

Cheers,

Michael

That really is dreadfull.
When i used to attend the American car shows, ive seen kids sitting on my car, when i tell the parents how much im going to charge them to have the paint re done because of their kids, its suprising how quickly the parents get them off the car.

How deep are the scratches ? can you get your finger nail in them? have they gone through to the primer ?

if you were closer i'd help you.

Yes you can and as I can see silver/grey underneath I would assume it is primer. I have 3 vertical lines about 1mm deep. They are about 2 inches long and 2 inches apart.

I'm more worried about these because they look awful. The useful parking scuffs I'm not too worried about but will get round to doing them.

I am pretty sure they weren't done at MITcar and we were so close. Could have done them there

Michael

Sorry, misread i thought it was done at Mitcar.

From what youve said, they sound quite deep, clean the surrounding area, attempt to touch in the scratches. Leave too much paint in, ie leave the scratches proud.
leave this for approx 24 hours, then with some very fine wet and dry paper, at least p2000, with a sanding block ( or something flat that you can hold ) gently flat away at the area in one direction, NOT round and round.
Use plenty of clean water, keeping an eye on the panel.
when the scratches are close or level to the surrounding area, stop.
Use a machine polisher if possible ( if not loads of elbow grease ) and some cutting compound such as this............

" http://www.farecla.co.uk/#/317 " its a video too that may help.

Just take your time........ thats the best advice. Thats about as concise as i can be without getting to heavily into it.

Thanks a lot, this will be really useful. As usual it p****d it down this morning and last time I attempted painting in the rain, it didn't work too well

And no I can't see anybody intentionally doing it at MITcar. Everybody at least from our stand seemed respectful over eachothers cars. I have caused no end of scuffs to my car (crashed an oven into the wing, hit a grit salt bin trying to park and budged a trolley out of the way to get to work) :O but I hate that someone on purpose thought I know, I'll jam a sharp object into that guys car.

I have had many a child "placed" upon my roof/bonnet whilst in the works car park. I work at Tesco so my car is pretty much left to any fate but as I work outside I can keep an eye on it. I was even told once that "my little boy isn't doing any harm, he's enjoying it!" only to soon remove the child as I started the engine and threatened to drive off

I wouldn't even put my son on my car, more so at that age they don't know about the 4 foot fall they could face if they slipped especially since mine is polished at least once a month

Cheers,

Michael

Also here is a picture. The gallery keeps failing on the upload so I've attached it to this post

Michael

Looks like trolley damage, poss door, still not fun.

Yep it needs to be dry when you do this, lol.

Come to think of it, it does look like the slats of a trolley. Only thing is the only supermarket it was taken to recently was Asda for the convoy so probably wouldn't have happened there

Yes my experience of painting in the rain was awful. Cleaned up my wheels trims, dried them off only to have the primer apply fine and then the top coat react

Michael

That could be a whole different issue ! ( wheel trims )

Theres many, many faults in painting, from simple silicon(s) to bleaching, solvent pop and a whole lot more !!

Oh and dont forget plain daftness.

Possibly that one in my case, just been to the local Tesco and saw a Tcut touch up pen. Any info on these?

Cheers,

Michael

sorry to hijack but people like this really p**s me off there just scum they can tell its your pride and joy and just do it out of jealousy i used to have a mint phase one d turbo years ago and went to the french car show with my owners club had a cracking time and stopped in a travel lodge on the way home came to my car in the morning and someone had poured nitromorse all over it and left the tin on the roof anyway sorry to hear about your car mate hope you get it all sorted out

allgood said:

Possibly that one in my case, just been to the local Tesco and saw a Tcut touch up pen. Any info on these?

Cheers,

Michael

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Never used one, but then its a bit different for me.

Lucas87, it never ceases to amaze me, how people express jealousy.:bang:

May leave it be as I'm pretty sure it is only useful for hairline scratches, and for £4 i'll just use my clay bar and super resin to get them less obvious

When I see stuff like it, I always take a picture. I would like to think one day when I need it someone wrote down the number plate or got a picture I'll be able to sort out my car.

Michael

If you have some plastic dressing, rub a small amount of that over the scratches, its an old motor trade trick, it doesnt last, but depending on the quality of the gel, hides them for a few days.
Again theres plenty more tricks, just like any trade, most are used by used car sellers.......... I know i was one !

cinquecento painter said:

If you have some plastic dressing, rub a small amount of that over the scratches, its an old motor trade trick, it doesnt last, but depending on the quality of the gel, hides them for a few days.
Again theres plenty more tricks, just like any trade, most are used by used car sellers.......... I know i was one !

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The clay does a pretty good job but as expected doesn't last. I know unless I get a respray it won't ever look perfect but I'd like to keep the car as long as possible so little niggles like these annoy me. Also the lacquer around the rear window and curve of the roof has started cracking almost like someone has rubbed sand paper over it. Only noticed this in the last month.

Also back to car sellers, I had a schumacher eyed up in wolverhampton. The seller claimed it had been resprayed as the paint had faded only to find he had resprayed it in rover red and sprayed over all badges and trim. The joke was he wanted £1500 for it. I offered him £300 and he told me not so kindly to take my business elsewhere :O

Michael